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born October 24, 1920, attended school in District 28, Madison High School and was graduated from Waither Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She is married to John Thomas Kennedy. They have one son. Dale, born July 15, 1925. He attended school in District 28 and the Platte Center High School and then was associated in farming with his father.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kallweit are members of the Lutheran Church, and Democrats. Henry Kallweit regarded as the guiding principle of his life a statement of his father: "You can farm with one horse, but it's better if you have two."

GEORGE A. KALLWEIT

George A. Kallweit, son of Otto Kallweit, Sr. and Anna Rose Treinies Kallweit, was born at the home of his father in Grand Prairie Township June 30, 1887. George, the youngest of eight children, received his early education in the District School and worked on his father's farm.

On March 26, 1913, he was married to Ida Lutjens, the daughter of Peter and Amanda Wetgen Lutjens. They had four children: Velma, the wife of Milton Goering, they have one daughter and one son; Ruth, the wife of Louis F. Shank, they have one daughter, Linda Ruth; Marvin was born January 7, 1920; and Earl was born April 14, 1923. All the children attended the District 28 rural school. Velma and Ruth were graduated from Platte Center High School and Ruth attended Grand Island Business College. In World War II, Marvin served thirty months in the United States Army. Earl and Marvin are engaged in farming.

Besides farming, Mr. Kallweit has been an implement and an automobile dealer in Platte Center, Mr. and Mrs. George Kallweit are members of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Mr. Kallweit is a Democrat.

HENRY KAPELS

Henry Kapels, born at Westerstede, Germany, January 4, 1860, received his early education in his native land and was married there on June 28, 1887, to Miss Meta Wessel. Mrs. Kapels was born at Westerstede, Germany, August , 186.

The Kapels lived in Germany for five years after their marriage, immigrating to the United States in 1892. They landed at Baltimore, Maryland, and came directly to Platte County, locating on a farm in Grand Prairie Township north of Columbus.

A year later, in 1893, they bought a farm in Creston Township, a short distance north of their first farm. Ten years later, they sold that farm and bought one a mile farther east, where they lived for twenty-five years. In 1928 they retired from active farm work and moved to Columbus. On June 28, 1937, they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary.

Both were members of St. John's Lutheran Church in the country, and the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Columbus. Henry Kapels died December 9, 1938. Meta Wessel Kapels died January 1, 1939.

Henry and Meta Kapels had five children: Henry, Jr., John, Adolph, Gerhard, and Martha.

Henry Kapels, Jr., married Hannah Becher. They had five children: Esther, Mrs. Heins Siefken; Elmer, married to Rose Ellen Marx; Edgar, who farms with his father two miles south of Creston; Helen, Mrs. Edward Wiemer; and Elden, who farms at home.

John Kapels farms with his brother, Adolph, near Creston.

Adolph is married to Elvina Osten. Their children are Bernice H., Malvern, twin sons LeRoy and ElRoy, and Wilmer. Bernice has been active in 4-H Club work, and in the spring of 1947 won the Carl R. Gray State Agricultural Society Scholarship for sewing.

Gerhard married Frieda Mueller.

Martha is the wife of Marsellius Ash, in Minnesota.

GERHARD KAPELS

Gerhard Kapels, Humphrey Township farmer, was born in Germany, January 3!, 1889. He was three years old when his parents, Henry and Meta Wessel Kapels. immigrated to the United States. The Kapels family came directly to Platte County, settling on a farm in Grand Prairie Township, eighteen miles north of Columbus.

Gerhard had three brothers and one sister. He was educated at the District 8 School and St. John's Lutheran Parochial School, and has traveled extensively. His first home in America was on the farm in Grand Prairie Township.

On April 21, 1915, Mr. Kapels was married to Miss Frieda Mueller, daughter of F. H. and Gesina Becher Mueller, of Platte County.

Gerhard and Frieda Kapels had three daughters: Marcella, born February 24, 1916, married to Ted Osten; Mildred, born August 20, 1918, married to Eugene Johannes; and Nora, born May 17, 1925, married to Emil Hellbusch. All attended District 8 rural school, St. John's Lutheran Parochial School, and live in the St. John's community near Humphrey, Nebraska.

Gerhard Kapels was clerk of Humphrey Township fourteen years, and secretary for the Creston Cooperative Oil Company of Creston for thirteen years.

Mr. Kapels served on the St. John's Lutheran School Board for nine years, and for two years as chairman of the St. John's Lutheran Church Board, Politically, he is affiliated with the Democratic Party.

In 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Kapels moved to the Platte County Agricultural Farm near Columbus.

JACOB KARLIN

Jacob Karlin, a native of Friedenstal, Russia, was born October 8, 1858. He was fifteen when he came to America with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Karlin. The family settled on a farm seven miles north of Columbus.

Jacob had five sisters: Mrs. Rudolph Mueller, Mrs. Fred Mueller, Mrs. Lawrence Enzminger, Mrs. O. C.


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R. Ellis of Oregon, and Mrs. John Gethke. Two brothers, John and Christ, reside in Oklahoma.

On February 14, 1889, Jacob Karlin was married to Miss Emilie Bertha Eichhorst at St. John's Lutheran Church on Shell Creek. Mrs. Karlin was born October 26, 1869, at Kaiserdorf, Germany, and was sixteen when she came to America with her sister, Mrs. Herman Gethke.

They had three sons and three daughters: R. L. and Herman, of Columbus; Emil, of Fremont; Mrs. B. F. Gardner and Elvina, of Columbus; and Marie, deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Karlin first resided on a farm in Joliet Township, west of Platte Center. From there they moved back to Jacob's mother's farm, three years later renting another farm just north of Columbus. Discouraged by the lean years in the early 1890's, Mr. Karlin moved his family in 1896 to Columbus.

Jacob Karlin worked twelve years at the Schroeder mill in Columbus. He was employed at various times at the Glur Cement Works, Dussell and Son, and for a while on paving crews. Later, he was custodian at the Emerson school. About 1929, he retired.

Mr. and Mrs. Karlin, who are members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary February 14, 1939

J. E. KAUFMANN

J. E. Kaufmann, prominent in Columbus business circles for more than twenty-five years, was born in Weissenstad, Bavaria, Germany, June 9, 1850. He was twenty when he immigrated to America with an only sister who died at Nehawka, Nebraska, in 1890. Mr. Kaufmann homesteaded in Seward County in 1870. The following year he borrowed money to bring his parents from Germany to Nebraska.

On July 6, 1876, he was married to Miss Augusta Gradoski, member of a pioneer family of Seward County. After nine years on the homestead they moved to a farm in Hamilton County. Four years later the Kaufmanns moved into Hampton, Nebraska, where Mr. Kaufmann owned and managed a lumber yard for eleven years.

In 1900 he started a lumber yard in Columbus, later buying the lumber yard of Hugh Hughes at 1158 Twenty-sixth Avenue. He consolidated the two yards into the Kaufmann Lumber Company. Around 1913, Mr. Kaufmann invested with William Krumland in the Krumland Hardware Company at 240! Thirteenth Street. Later, he bought Mr. Krumland's interest in the business and moved the hardware stock to 2519 Eleventh Street, where the store was operated as the Kaufmann Hardware Company.

J. E. and Augusta Gradoski Kaufmann had four daughters and three sons. Louise is deceased. William lives in California. In Columbus are: Sophia, Mrs. Henry Gass; Ida, Mrs. Harry Lohr; Augusta, Mrs. William Fontein; Theodore, manager and owner of Kaufmann Hardware Company; and Herman. William and Herman were associated with their father in the lumber business, and Theodore, in the hardware company;

Mrs. J. E. Kaufmann died August 17, 1908. J. E. Kaufmann died in October, 1928.

WILLIAM JOHN KAUFMANN

William John Kaufmann was born December 5, 1882, in Hampton, Nebraska, and came to Columbus in 1900.

He was the eldest son of John E. and Augusta Gradoski Kaufmann, natives of Germany.

He had four brothers and four sisters. Henry and Otto died in infancy, and Louise died March 11, 1942.

The others, all of Columbus are: Sophia, Mrs. Henry Gass; Ida, the widow of Harry Lohr; Augusta, the widow of William Fontein; Theodore, married to Emma Lusche; and Herman, married to Louise Moersen.

William J. Kaufmann attended school at Hampton, and was associated in the lumber business with his father at Hampton and Columbus.

On August 16, 1905, at Columbus, William J. was married to Anna Sturgeon, daughter of John L. and Maggie H. Aden Sturgeon, of Columbus.

Mrs. Kaufmann's father was born in Louisville, Kentucky, September 22, 1843, and died October 3, 1902, in Columbus. Her mother was born in Germany April 6, 1858, and died January 19, 1924, at Omaha. Mrs. Kaufmann had two sisters and two brothers. Herman Sturgeon died in infancy. The others are: Amos Sturgeon, a farmer, married to Nora Pressler; Lydia B. Sturgeon, a private secretary, Sacramento, California; and Mary E. Sturgeon, wife of Fred S. Peterson, assistant manager of the Elks Temple at Sacramento.

William J. and Anna Sturgeon Kaufmann had two children. A son died in infancy. Margaret, Mrs. J. C. Crosland, was graduated from Kramer High School and attended Sacramento Junior College at Sacramento, and Van Sants Business College in Omaha. She was first employed as a reporter on the Columbus News, and later in the County Clerk's office in Columbus. In Sacramento, she was employed in the National Advertising Department of the Sacramento Bee.

After the J. E. Kaufmann lumber interests were sold to the Mead Lumber Company, William J. Kaufmann bought a fruit ranch and resort on Highway Number 40, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Placer County, California. There are three thousand five hundred fruit trees on the ranch and the resort is a year-round business.

The Kaufmanns are members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church. Mr. Kaufmann is a past member of the Elks, Maennerchor Society, Old Fashioned Dancing Club, Wayside Country Club, and Columbus Gun Club.

JOHN THEODORE KAUFMAN

John Theodore Kaufman, son of John E. and Augusta Gradowski Kaufmann was born July 24, 1890, at Hampton, Hamilton County, Nebraska. His father was born in Weissenstad, Bavaria, Germany, on June 9, 1850, arid


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died in Columbus in October, 1928. His mother, also a native of Germany, died in Columbus on August 17, 1908.

John Theodore had four brothers and four sisters: Henry and Otto died in infancy; Louise died on March 11, 1942; William John, married to Anna Sturgeon; Sophia, Mrs. Henry Gass; Ida, the widow of Harry Lohr; Augusta, the widow of William Fontein; and Herman, married to Louise Moersen.

Mr. Kaufman attended the Hampton and Columbus schools and has been engaged in the hardware business. He is the owner and manager of the Kaufman Hardware Company.

On October 16, 1912, in Columbus, John Theodore Kaufman married Emma Lusche, daughter of John and Rosalie Lueke Lusche. Mrs. Kaufman was born on March 26, 1891, in Colfax County.

Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman had two children: Rose, born November 29, 1915, is the wife of Gilbert Asche, of Columbus; and John Theodore, Jr., born December 17, 1921, is married to Norma Snell. They live at Naugatuck, Connecticut, where he is employed by the United States Rubber Company.

Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman are members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church.

EDWARD C. KAVANAUGH

Edward C. Kavanaugh was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in June, 1833. He was the son of Daniel C. Kavanaugh, Sr., who died in Ireland.

Edward C. received his early schooling in his native county and immigrated to the U. S. in 1851, settling at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was married there in the early 1850's to Catharine Holland, also a native of Ireland.

In 1868 he moved to Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, and in 1870 came to Columbus, where he opened a paint business. In 1875, his son, Daniel C. Kavanaugh, came to Columbus from Milwaukee and was associated with his father. The Edward Kavanaughs had another son, Charles, and a daughter, Myra, Mrs. Reynolds, of Milwaukee.

Edward Kavanaugh died in Columbus in 1879. His widow, Catharine Holland Kavanaugh, died in Milwaukee in 1895.

The Columbus Journal commented: "Edward C. Kavanaugh was a man of unbounded energy and activity, taking a very lively interest in the city and county politics. He has made his influence felt in every campaign for several years. As a friend, the deceased was ardent and true, sticking all the closer when trouble seemed to come thick and fast. He was a man not easily deceived and read men's intentions as an open book . . . . At the time of his death, E. C. Kavanaugh occupied the office of Councilman for the Second Ward of Columbus, a position he held for two successive terms. His official work was like everything else he undertook-zealously entered upon and thoroughly well done."

DANIEL C. KAVANAUGH

Daniel C. Kavanaugh, born November 23, 1857, in Milwaukee. Wisconsin. was the son of Edward C. and Catharine Holland Kavanaugh, natives of Ireland.

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Daniel attended the public schools in his native city and later was enrolled at the Spencerian Business College. He came to Columbus as a young man in 1875, associating himself in the paint business with his father.

On January 7, 1878, in Grand Prairie Township, Daniel Kavanaugh was married to Miss Bridget Gentleman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gentleman, who settled in Grand Prairie Township in 1871. They had five children: Katharine, William Gerald and Eileen Patricia are deceased. Edward C. is postmaster in Columbus. M. Paula, Mrs. Don Rietz, resides in Sioux City, Iowa.

The Columbus Telegram, of December 12, 1928, wrote: "There was not a more handsome couple in those days that graced Columbus social circles than this typical and beautiful Irish lass, known to her intimate friends as 'Bride,' and her gay and handsome young husband. They were known throughout the county and their charming personalities won for them a host of friends."

In 1880, they moved to a farm north of Columbus which Mr. Kavanaugh farmed in partnership with "Ottie" Baker. They returned to the city in the fall of 1881, when Mr. Kavanaugh was elected sheriff of Platte County.

After six years as sheriff, he moved in 1888 to Platte Center, where he owned and operated a brickyard. While residing there he served as deputy internal revenue collector. In 1889, the Kavanaughs returned to Columbus, where Mr. Kavanaugh engaged in the insurance business until the fall of 1891 when he was again elected sheriff.

After three consecutive terms in this office, he retired in 1898, spending the next two years on his farm in Monroe Township. In 1900, he established his paint business in Columbus. His son, Edward C. Kavanaugh, was associated with him in this business which he conducted until his election again as sheriff in 1918. He was reelected in 1922 and again in 1926.

For fifty years, Mr. Kavanaugh was leader of the Democratic Party in Platte County. He participated in party councils in city, county and state conventions, and from 1875 to 1927 was a bulwark of strength in many a spirited political campaign.

 


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Mr. Kavanaugh was active also in civic and fraternal affairs, and was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Elks, and Modern Woodmen Lodges, the Rotary Club, the Sheriffs Police Officers Association of America and the Nebraska State Sheriffs Association. He was a member of St. Bonaventure's Church.

Daniel C. Kavanaugh died February 10, 1927. Mrs. Kavanaugh died December 10, 1938.

EDWARD C. KAVANAUGH, JR.

Edward Charles Kavanaugh, of Columbus, is the son of Daniel C. and Bridget Gentleman Kavanaugh, and the grandson of Edward C. Kavanaugh, Sr.

He had one brother and three sisters. Katherine, William G., and Eileen Patricia are deceased. Paula is the wife of Don J. Rietz of Sioux City, Iowa.

Mr. Kavanaugh was educated in the Columbus grade and high school. He was associated in the paint business with his father from 1909 to 1918.

During World War I, he was a first lieutenant with the One Hundred Ninth Supply Train, Thirty-fourth Division---"Sandstorm."

After his discharge, he served as deputy sheriff with his father, Daniel C. Kavanaugh, who was sheriff from 1918 to 1927. In 1927, when his father died, Edward C. was appointed to fill the unexpired term. He was elected sheriff of Platte County in November, 1928, serving in that office until November, 1938.

On September 11, 1940, he was appointed acting postmaster of Columbus. The appointment was confirmed in August, 1941.

On June 28, 1935, Mr. Kavanaugh was married to Miss Kathleen Claire Shea, daughter of William M. and Mary Elizabeth Whalen Shea. They had one son, Edward Charles Kavanaugh III, born in Columbus, March 26, 1938. Edward III attended the Lincoln School and St. Bonaventure's school. A daughter Mary, born in 1937 is deceased.

E. C. Kavanaugh's hobbies are hunting, bowling and golf. He is active in civic and community affairs and holds memberships in B.P.O.E. (Elks), the Wayside Country Club, the Modern Woodmen, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Izaak Walton League, Chamber of Commerce, and is an honorary member of the Columbus Fire Department.

Mr. and Mrs. Kavanaugh are members of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church. Mr. Kavanaugh is a member of the Holy Name Society of that church.

THOMAS KEATING

Thomas Keating was born April 1, 1840, at Harvard, Illinois. He received his early education in the Harvard schools and grew to manhood there. In his early life, it was his privilege to hear a number of addresses delivered by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas and other noted orators of the time, and from them came a wide knowledge of that day. Perhaps no other man in Columbus was more conversant than he with the civic and political affairs during that trying period of our nation's history, or had a closer personal knowledge of the great men who participated in the making of that history.

On November 8, 1861, in Harvard, Illinois, Thomas Keating was married to Ellen Sullivan, the daughter of John and Margaret Sullivan. Mrs. Keating was born on August 5, 1844, and spent her girlhood in Illinois. After their marriage, Thomas and Ellen Sullivan Keating established their home in Harvard where Mr. Keating engaged in the grocery business.

Mr. and Mrs. Keating had twelve children, nine of whom were born in Harvard, Illinois. Two died in infancy. The others were: Thomas Jr., deceased; Margaret, Mrs. Joseph Flynn, of Lincoln; Nellie, Mrs. W. F. Winkleman, deceased; John of Denver, deceased; Agnes, Mrs. R. C. Regan of Columbus; Abigail, Mrs. George Alexander Young, of Omaha; Lillian, Mrs. John Locher, of Montecello, Iowa; Henry Keating; Michael Cornelius, deceased, was married to Anna Fox, also deceased; and Gertrude, Mrs. Bannister of Detroit.

In 1879, Henry Keating sold his grocery business in Harvard and disposed of his other holdings there. He and Mrs. Keating and their family, in company with Mrs. Keating's brother and his wife, came west to Nebraska, and stopped at Columbus, where both Thomas Keating and William Sullivan became land owners. They purchased adjoining tracts of land about five miles northwest of the Columbus of seventy years ago. The Honorable Judge John J. Sullivan also came to Columbus in the fall of 1879.

Mr. Keating built a home on his farm. The original house still stands and was occupied by the Harvey Sheldon family for several years. Around 1886, Mr. Keating sold his farm to Sidney C. Gray. It was later acquired by C. H. Sheldon, who erected the Sheldon Elevator and named it Sheldonville. It is located on Highway 81.

The Keating family lived on their farm for seven years. In 1886 they moved into Columbus where Mr. Keating engaged in the live-stock business with his brother, Michael, who later settled in Minnesota, where he was in the produce business.

Ellen Sullivan Keating died in Columbus on August 25, 1925. Thomas Keating died September 29, 1911.

MICHAEL CORNELIUS KEATING

Michael Cornelius Keating was born on January 24, 1881, at the old Keating Farm, six miles northwest of Columbus. He attended the Platte County schools and was engaged in the grocery business.

He had three brothers and six sisters: Thomas, of Fremont, deceased; Henry, deceased; John, of Denver, deceased; Margaret, Mrs. Joseph Flynn, of Lincoln; Nellie, Mrs. W. F. Winkleman, deceased; Agnes, Mrs. R. C. Regan, of Columbus; Abigail, Mrs. George Alexander Young, of Omaha; Lillian, Mrs. John Locher; and Gertrude, Mrs. Bannister of Detroit, Michigan.


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On October 9, 1906, in Columbus, Michael Cornelius Keating was married to Anna Fox. Mrs. Keating was born on a farm in Butler County, in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Keating had one son, Con Hart, born April 27, 1909, in Columbus. Mrs. Keating died in Columbus on December 9, 1910, and Mr. Keating died on April 7, 1911. Con Hart Keating then made his home with his aunt, Mrs. R. C. Regan.

Michael Cornelius Keating left school before he had completed his course, and obtained employment as a grocery clerk. He later formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, W. F. Schram, and established a new grocery company in Columbus. The store was a success from the beginning, and the partnership continued for a number of years.

When the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Keating became associated with Homer Robinson and Albert Rasmussen in conducting the grocery business of the Columbus Mercantile Company.

Michael Cornelius Keating held memberships in the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Eagles, and completed a term of service with the Columbus Volunteer Fire Department.

CON HART KEATING

Con Hart Keating, son of M. Cornelius and Anna Fox Keating, was born April 27, 1909, in Columbus. His father, who was in the grocery business, was born on a farm near Columbus on January 21, 188,, and died in Columbus on April 7, 1911. His mother, born on a farm in Butler County, in 1880, died in Columbus on December 9, 1910. Following the death of his parents, Con Keating made his home with his aunt, Agnes Keating, Mrs. R. C. Regan, of Columbus.

Mr. Keating attended the St. Francis Academy, was graduated from the Kramer High School, in Columbus, and attended the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, for two years, where he was affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.

On May 15, 1930, in Iowa, Con Keating married Doris Stenger, daughter of Albert and Lina Stiner Stenger. Mr. Stenger, a farmer, was born May 22, 1856, in France, and died on December i I, 1944, in Columbus. Mrs. Stenger was born December 7, 1875, in Switzerland, and died on June 11, 1945, in Columbus. Doris Stenger Keating has one brother and six sisters: Cecile, Kathryn, Madeline, Alfred, Marcelle, Eleanor, and Eugenie. Alfred Stenger lives at Imperial, Nebraska.

Mr. and Mrs. Con Keating have three children: Carolyn, born February 28, 1931; Hart, born June 24, 1936; and Con M., born August 27, 1941. The children attended St. Bonaventure's School and Junior High School. Carolyn was graduated from Kramer High School in 1949. She attended the University of Arizona where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

Con Keating was formerly in the engineering field and the insurance business. He is owner and manager of the Dr. Pepper Bottling Works, in Columbus. His hobbies are hunting and fishing.

Active in organizational work, he is a member of the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the F.O.E. (Eagles), the Knights of Columbus, and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Politically, he is affiliated with the Democratic Party.

Con H. Keating is a member of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church.

JOHN KEELER

John Keeler, one of the earliest settlers in the Wattsville community near Monroe, Nebraska, was born in England, January 20, 1834, and died June 17, 1914, at Wattsville.

As a small boy he immigrated to Orleans County, New York, with his parents, receiving his early education there and serving in the United States Army during the Civil War in the Twenty-eighth New York Infantry. Wounded in battle, he received his honorable discharge before the war ended.

He came to Nebraska in 1872 and secured land near Monroe with a military grant given him in recognition of his service in the Civil War.

In the late 1860's he was married in Ridgeway, Orleans County, to Mary E. Bacon, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. William H. Bacon. In 1872, they came west to Nebraska. Mary E. Bacon was born in Orleans County, July 8, 1845, and died at Wattsville, February 17, 1915.

John and Mary E. Bacon Keeler had four children: Edith, Mrs. Erick M. Johnson; Nellie, Mrs. T. D. Selmeyer; Hattie, Mrs. Ben Nelson; and Fred. Mrs. Selmeyer died February 12, 1946.

John Keeler was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Monroe.

FRED KEELER

Fred Keeler, enterprising Lost Creek Township farmer, was born February 17, 1880, on the farm where he still makes his home. His parents, John and Mary Bacon Keeler, came to Platte County April 1, 1872, and farmed a tract of land granted to the elder Keeler in recognition of his military service during the Civil War. John Keeler was born January 20, 1834, in England, and died June 17, 1914, in Platte County. He formerly lived in New York. Mary Keeler was born July 8, 1844, and died February 17, 1915.

Fred Keeler had three sisters: Edith, Mrs. E. M. Johnson; Hattie, Mrs. Ben Nelson; and Nellie, Mrs. T. D. Selmeyer, who died February 12, 1946.

Mr. Keeler received a common school education. On May 24, 1905, he was married to Miss Josephine Rudman, daughter of Olaf and Lena Johnson Rudman. They had ten children: Mrs. Ina E. Kerr, born August 28, 1906; Milo R., born December 26, 1907; Mrs. E. M. Jackson, born November 4, 1909; Mrs. Al G. Sparks, born July 19, 1912; Harold K., born July 5, 1915; Charles B., born June 8, 1918; Mrs. Rose Keeler Carlson, born March 17, 1923; Fred Arno, discharged


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