Keck, John Melvin – Keith, Reuel
Keck, John Melvin
educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born Sept. 18, 1854, in Franklin Square, Ohio. He is a graduate of Mount Union college, and of the Drew Theological, seminary of Madison, N. J. He has filled the chair of German in the Mount Union college of Alliance, Ohio; since 1883 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and now fills a pastorate in Mentor, Ohio. He is a noted lecturer on natural history; and a constant writer of magazine articles on popular science.
Kedney, John Steinfort
educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 12, 1819, in Essex county, N. J. He is an episcopal clergyman, professor in Seabury Divinity school at Faribault, Minn., since 1871; and the author of Mens Christi, and Other Problems in Theology; Catawba, and Other Poems; The Beautiful and the Sublime, an Analysis of the Emotions; Hegel's Æsthetics; and Christian Doctrine Harmonized.
Keefe, John C
manufacturer, journalist, inventor, was born in 1846 in Chicopee, Mass. In 1878 he became editor of the Milwaukee News. He is the inventor of several useful patents.
Keefer, Horace Andrew
legislator, was born Sept. 8, 1855, in Schuylkill Haven, Pa. He received an academic education, and spent ten years in the various departments of iron and steel making in Pennsylvania-from clerk to superintendent. In 1883 he moved west, and subsequently became a member of the Kansas house of representatives from the Leavenworth district.
Keegan, J. Tremaine
poet, was born Sept. 16, 1847, in Berlin, Conn. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, including Bells of San Blas; Deserted City in Yucatan; The Exile's Dream; and The Wanderer's Return.
Keeler, Charles Augustus
ornithologist, author, was born in 1871 in Wisconsin. He is an ornithologist and verse-writer of California; and the author of Evolution of Color in North American Land Birds; and A Light Through the Storm.
Keeler, James Edward
astronomer, educator, journalist, was born Sept. 10, 1857, in La Salle, Ill. Since 1891 he has been director of the Allegheny observatory and professor of astrophysics in the Western university of Pennsylvania. He is editor of the Astrophysical Journal. He discovered and measured the motions of Nebulæ while at the Lick observatory; and while at Allegheny secured spectroscopic proof of the meteoric structure of Saturn's rings.
Keeler, Ralph
journalist, author, was born in 1840 in Ohio. He was a journalist of California and New York; and the author of Gloverson and His Silent Partner; and Vagabond Adventures. He died Dec. 16, 1873, at sea near Cuba.
Keeler, Richard Woolsey
college president, was born Feb. 14, 1824, in Columbia county, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected the first president of Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, serving until 1859.
Keely, John Worrall
inventor, was born Sept. 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is the inventor of a hydro-pneumatic pulsating vacuo machine, whose action, it is claimed, is produced by forces obtained from water and air. He constructed one hundred and twenty-four different engines, and has eliminated the use of water entirely in developing the energy that he claims to control.
Keen, Morris Longstreth
inventor, was born May 24, 1820, in West Philadelphia. He gave attention to the making of paper out of wood, and this led to the formation in 1863 of the American Wood-Paper company, with patent rights for the United States and privileges in other lands. He died Nov. 2, 1883, in Highland Grove, Pa.
Keen, William Williams
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 19, 1837, in Philadelphia. He was an eminent Philadelphia surgeon, professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical college since 1889; and author of Reflex Paralysis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of the Human Body; Complications and Sequels of Continuous Fever; and Early History of Practical Anatomy.
Keenan, Henry Francis
journalist, author, was born May 4, 1849, in Rochester, N. Y. He is a journalist and novelist formerly of Rochester, N. Y.; and the author of The Money-Makers, a Social Problem; Trajan, the History of a Sentimental Young Man; The Aliens; One of a Thousand; and The Iron Game.
Keene, Laura
actress, was born in 1820 in England. She made her first appearance in 1852 in Wallack's theater of New York city. The Laura Keene company, with Laura Keene, Joseph Jefferson and Edward A. Sothern in the leading roles, was playing Our American Cousin at Ford's theater of Washington on April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln met his death. She died Nov. 4, 1873, in Montclair, N. J.
Keep, John
clergyman, was born April 20, 1781, in Long Meadow, Mass.
Soon after his election as a trustee of Oberlin, he gave as president of the board the casting vote that admitted colored students. He was the last surviving founder of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. He died Feb. 11, 1870, in Oberlin, Ohio.
Keep, Josiah
educator, author, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He is an educator of California; and the author of Common Sea Shells of California; and West Coast Shells.
Keep, Robert Porter
educator, author, was born in 1844 in Connecticut.
He is an educator of Norwich, Conn.; and the author of Stories from Herodotus; Essential Uses of the Moods in Greek and Latin; and Greek Lessons.
Keese, Richard
congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1794, in Peru, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829. He subsequently settled in Pennsylvania.
Keifer, Joseph Warren
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1836, six miles west of Springfield, Ohio. He attended the common district schools of his county, and finished his education at the Antioch college. He served in the union army with distinction and was rapidly promoted until he became major-general of United States volunteers. In 1868-69 he served as a member of the Ohio state senate; and was delegate at large from Ohio to the republican national convention.
For four terms during 1877-85 he was a member of congress; and was speaker of the forty-seventh congress in 1881-83.
Since 1873 he has been president of the Sagonda National bank, of Springfield, Ohio. In 1869-71 he was department commander of Ohio Grand Army of the Republic; and Ohio commander-in-chief in 1872. He has attained success in his profession, and is one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio.
Keightley, Edwin William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1843, in Van Buren, Ind. He was appointed judge of the fifteenth judicial circuit; and was elected to the same position in 1875, for the term of six years. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth congress; and in 1879 was appointed third auditor of the United States treasury.
Keim, George May
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born March 23, 1805, in Reading, Pa. He took an interest in military affairs, and became a majorgeneral of militia. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention of 1837; in that year was elected to congress to fill a vacancy, and was twice re-elected. He was appointed marshal of eastern Pennsylvania, and reappointed by President Polk. He died June 10, 1861.
Keim, William High
soldier, civil engineer, congressman, was born June 13, 1813, near Reading, Pa. In 1848 he was elected mayor of Reading, Pa.; and in 1859 was elected a representative in congress.
He was also surveyor-general of the state.
He was placed in command of a division of the volunteer army in 1861; after a campaign on the Upper Potomac was appointed a brigadier-general in the regular army; and served with honor in the army of the Potomac. He died May 18, 1862, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Keiper, George Frederic
physician, author, was born March 26, 1866, in La Fayette, Ind. He is oculist and aurist to the St. Elizabeth hospital and the St.
Joseph Orphan asylum; and is the author of numerous essays on eye and ear subjects.
Keith, Edward Charles
educator, business man, state senator, was born March 5, 1866, in Fairfield, Maine. He graduated from the Coburn Classical institute, of Waterville, Maine. He has attained success as an educator; is one of the largest growers of small fruit in the state of Washington at Buckley; and is also interested in numerous mines. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Washington state senate. For the past ten years he has taken an active part in schools, politics, horticulture and mining; and in the public and business affairs of his city, county and state.
Keith, Eliza D
author, was born in 1854, in San Francisco, Cal. She is the author of a poem entitled, Our Flag, written during the war; and has contributed various poems to different magazines.
Keith, Charles Penrose
lawyer, author, was born March 15, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of The Provincial Councilors of Pennsylvania; and The History of Benjamin Harrison.
Keith, Reuel
clergyman, author, was born June 26, 1792, in Pittsford, Vt.
For many years he was rector of a protestant episcopal church in Georgetown, D. C. He was the author of several religious works. He died Sept. 3, 1842, in Sheldon, Vt.