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Biographies.
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History of Warren
Co., Ohio
containing
A History of the County; Its Townships, Towns,
Schools, Churches,
Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of
Early
Settlers and Prominent Men; History of The North-
West Territory; History of Ohio; Map of
Warren County; Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, Etc., Etc.
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Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.,
1882
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Union Twp. -
A. J. KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Camp
Hageman; was born in turtle Creek Township in 1839; he is a
son of Abraham and Anna (Longstreet) Keever. He
was born in Pennsylvania, and with his parents, Abraham
and Mary (Kane) Keever, came to Ohio in an early day,
and first settled in Darke Co., Ohio, and afterward became
citizens of Warren Co. Aaron and Mary (Higgins)
Longstreet, parents of Anna, were natives of New
Jersey, in which they were reared and married. In
1812, he kept a public house of New Trenton, N. J. In
1814, they came to Ohio and settled in Turtle Creek
Township, where they lived till they died; his death
occurred in1856; she died in 1863. To them were born
seven children, viz: Samuel (who married Betsey
Corwin), Euphemia (who married ____ Simpson),
Mary, (who married Andrew Burntager), Ann
(who married Abraham Keever), and Mary (was
married to James M. Gallager), Aaron (for his
first wife married Mary Gallager, and for his second,
Nancy Ward. Abraham Keever, Sr., children were
as follows: Thomas (married P)olly Perrine),
Joseph (married Mary Dugan), Anthony
(married Polly Swanger), Betsy (married
Phoenix See), Abraham (married Ann Longstreet),
Joseph and Phalix (unmarried), Lavinia
(was married to Phoenix See), George (to
Eliza Lawrence), and Polly (who married George
Sears). To Aaron Keever, Jr., and wife were
born four children, viz.: A. J. (married Mary
Brown), Rebecca A. (was married to B. F.
Gallager), Laving F. (married E. C. Doods),
and Mary M. (was married to Dr. J. B. Owens,
of Lebanon). Abraham, Jr., died i 1847, aged 39
years. Mrs. Keever was again married of John
W. Hall, by whom she had one child, viz., Lurella
(now Mrs. D. P. Wikoft). She (Mrs. H.)
died in 1879, aged 66 years. Abraham,
father of A. J., dealt largely in stock, and was one
of the live businessmen of Warren Co., in his time, and was
much respected by all who knew him; he was successful in
business, and although dying young, left a farm of 200
acres. Anna, his wife, was a consistent member
of the Methodist Church; Aaron Longstreet, her
father, was a Presbyterian, and a very exemplary man.
Our subject was reared on the farm, and in 1860 was married
to Mary, daughter of David and Mary Brown
For four years after his marriage, he lived in the house
where he was born. In 1865, he moved onto the
Hawthorne farm in Union Township. In 1881, he came
to the place where he resides, and during the summer of 1881
built a neat residence. He owns 110 acres of land
which is in good cultivation.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
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Union Twp. -
JAMES KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Mason.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in
Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 25, 1844; he is a son of James and
Hester (Lamb) Keever, who settled in Ohio in an early
day. The boyhood of our subject was passed on the
farm, and in the district school eh received an ordinary
education. As his father died before his birth he was
deprived of that parental care and training so necessary and
essential to every child, yet withal, James has
succeeded and owns a farm of 106 acres, which is in the
northwest quarter of Sec. 20; his land he is fixing up and
improving and now bids fair to become a pleasant home.
In 1867, he was married to Mary E. Braden, by whom
he has had three children - Minnie M., Clara L.
and John C. He located where he now lives (the
old homestead) in 1872. His brother, Lenoidas,
enlisted in 1862, in Co. A, 79th O. V. I.; he died three
months after, in December, at Gallatin, Tenn.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
ABE KEEVER, grocer, Lebanon, was born
in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 10, 1830;
he is the son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Swanger) Keever,
he a native of Clark Co., Ohio, where he was born in Feb.
1805, and she a native of Warren County, born Oct. 20, 1807.
Our subject received his education in Warren County; his
life was spent on the farm mostly, until 1864, when he
embarked in the grocery and bakery business, in Lebanon,
where he is still engaged in the grocery occupation, having
discontinued his bakery. He was married, Feb. 15,
1860, to Miss Sarah E. Lamb, a native of Turtle Creek
Township, and a daughter of Thompson and Ann (Benham)
Lamb, the former an early settler of Warren County.
By this union six children were born of whom three -
Solon, Leonidas and Ruth - are the only
survivors. Mr. Keever was a Democrat in
politics until the formation of the Greenback party, since
which he has been identified with the latter party.
Mr. Keever's father, Anthony, died in Turtle
Creek Township May 14, 1856; he was married in Turtle Creek
Township and had nine children, of whom the following three
are the only survivors: Abe, our subject;
Isaac, a carpenter, of Union City, Ind., and
Samuel W., a prominent farmer of Union Township, Warren
Co. Our subject's wife's father, Thompson Lamb,
was born in New Jersey Sept. 21, 1794, and emigrated to
Turtle Creek Township in 1801; he was the son of Joseph
Jamb, born in New Jersey Oct. 20, 1756, and died in
Turtle Creek Township Aug. 8, 1828. Thompson
was twice married, first, on April 18, 1816, to Caroline
Stevenson, who was born July 18, 1798, and died Nov. 17,
1826, and the second time Jan. 22, 1828, to Ann Benham,
who was born in Washington Co., Penn., Jun. 12, 1793, moved
to Newport, Ky., 1794, and to Warren County in 1799, where
she still lives. Her husband first settled on a farm
on Muddy Creek, where he lived until his death, July 22,
1849; he was an Old Line Whig and a Deacon in the Old-School
Baptist Church.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Turtle Creek Twp.
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ALBERT KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon;
was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Dec.
28, 1849; his father, Milton Keever, was an
early settler of Warren, where he followed farming very
successfully until his death, in 1869, at that time owning
408 acres of land, which he had acquired by his own
industry, aided by the frugality of his wife, Lydia
(Murphy) Keever, his son, our subject, has chosen
farming for his life occupation and promises to soon reach
the degree of excellence in it that his father occupied
before him; he now owns 96 acres of good arable land, worth
fully $100 per acre. He was married, Oct. 8, 1872, to
Ella Snook, daughter of E. K. Snook; to this
union were born four children, viz., George Raymond,
Lesley, Flora and Elva. Mr. Keever is a
Republican in politics, and, for four years, served as
School Director of his district.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Turtle Creek Twp.
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GEORGE KEEVER (deceased) was the son
of Abraham Keever, a native of Pennsylvania, who came
to Ohio in an early day and located in Warren County, where
our subject was born May 26, 1812; he received his education
in the country schools of Warren County, where he resided
until his death, which occurred in 1869; he was a man of
much natural ability, and, though a farmer by occupation,
could "turn his hand" to almost any kind of work requiring
mechanical skill; he was a good Republican in politics, and
in religion a member of the Methodist Church. He was
married, in 1855, to Miss Eliza A. Lawrence, a native
of Butler County, who bore him the five following children:
J. E., George E., Warren L., Franz Seigle and William
E. Mr. Keever stood high in the esteem of his
fellows and at his death left a record unspotted.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Turtle Creek Twp.
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JAMES M. KEEVER, farmer; P. O.
Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co.,
Ohio, Jan. 20, 1835; he is the son of Thomas and Mary A.
(Perrine) Keever, whose sketches appear elsewhere in
this park; he was reared on a farm and has always followed
farming as an occupation. He was married, in 1857, to
Rhoda Bunnell, a native of Warren County, where she
was born Aug. 29, 1838; they have seven children living,
viz., Edward C., Carrie B., Lincoln, Marion, Lida E.,
Walter and Clarence Hayes. Mr. Keever owns
a fine farm of 160 acres in Section 22; he is a Republican
and has served a term of fourteen years as a School
Director, and was, for some time, one of the Board of
Directors of the Wrren County Agricultural Society.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Turtle Creek Twp.
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NATHAN KEEVER, (deceased) was born in
Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Aug. 6, 1818; he
was a son of John and Elizabeth ('Rgers) Keever,
natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent; he received a
limited education and spent his life on the farm, where he
died Oct. 30, 1880; having been injured in the left arm when
quite young, he was unable to do but little of the labor of
the farm, but, by his counsel and foresight, the work was
prosecuted with considerable success. He was a stanch
Republican and held several offices of trust in the county,
among which were County Commissioners six years, and Justice
of the Peace several years. In the year of his death,
he was appointed Receiver of the Miami Valley Narrow Gauge
Railway. He was a man of intelligence and good
business qualifications. He was married, Nov. 2, 1858,
to Mary J. Monfort, a native of Warren County, and
daughter of Arthur Monfort, of New Jersey; they had
five children, viz., Elbert M. (deceased),
Merrilla (deceased), Hattie L., Clarence W.
and Nellie E.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Turtle Creek Twp.
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THOMAS KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon;
was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 2, 1802; his parents
were Abraham Keever, a native of Pennsylvania, of
German decent, and Margaret (Irons) Keever, a native
of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent; they were among the
early settlers of Warren County, whither they emigrated in
the year 1802 and settled in what is now Clear Creek
Township, and later, the husband served in the war of 1812.
Our subject received such education as could be obtained in
the pioneer schools of Warren and Clark Counties and early
commenced working on a farm, at which employment he has
since continued. In 1827, he was married to Mary
Ann Perrine, a native of Kentucky, by whom he had
nine children, six of whom are now living, viz.,
John P., Mary E., James M., Margaret Ann, Alvira W. and
Martha L. Mrs. Keever died in 1851, and our
subject afterward went to live with his daughter, Martha
L., who married James A. Thompson, of Warren
County, in 1866; the latter was born in Warren County and is
a farmer. In the second year of the late war, he
enlisted in Company B, 79th O. V. I.; he has had, by this
marriage, two children - Clifford and Charley.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Turtle Creek
Twp. -
WILLIAM OSCAR KEEVER, farmer; P. O.
Lebanon; was bornin Ohio Aug. 20, 1847; he is the son of
Milton and Lydia (Murphy) Keever, natives of Ohio, she
of Irish and he of German descent; they were the parents of
six children, viz., Ellen (the deceased wife of
John Monfort, Esq.), Elizabeth, wife of Peter
Monfort, Eliza W., George (deceased), William
O. our subject, and Albert, all the survivors
being citizens of Warren County. William O.
attended the Normal School at Lebanon, where he completed
his education and then returned to farming; he was married,
in 1869, to Miss Ella Monfort, daughter of Stout
Monfort, of Warren County; they have four children -
Pearl, Milton S., Emma Maude and John M. Mr.
Keever is one of Warren County's successful farmers; he
owns a farm of 173 acres of land well improved, lying near
Lebanon. He is a Republican in politics, but confines
himself to simply voting the ticket of his party, never
aspiring to any of its official honors.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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Union Twp. -
HENRY B. KELLEY, South Lebanon, of the
firm of Kelley & Dunham, pacers and driers of sugar
corn. Mr. Kelley was born in New York in 1844;
his early life was passed in the nurseries of Rochester, in
his native State, one of which he had charge when only 17
years old. The rudiments of his education were
received in the common schools, which was afterward quite
fully developed in higher institutions of learning. In
1871, he came to Ohio and located at Foster's Crossing, in
Warren Co., where he began drying sweet corn. The
following year he located at his present site. Mr.
W. H. Poor and he were the discoverers and originators
of their new process of drying corn. He was married in
Ohio, in 1867, to Rosa, daughter of Orson Murray,
who was borne him children as follows - Cannie, Carlos,
Horace and George. Mr. Kelley belongs to
all Masonic bodies, being a member of Lebanon Lodge, No. 26,
Chapter No. 5, and to the Miami Commandery.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1058 |
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Clear Creek Twp.
HARRISON KIRBY, farmer; P. O. Dodds;
born on the old Kirby farm, in Clear Creek Township,
Dec. 6, 1836; is a son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Kirby,
natives of New Jersey, and were among the early settlers of
this county, locating here about 1813, and here resided till
their death. Harrison was married, Oct. 1,
1860, to Rachel, daughter of Arthur and
Sarah Venable, natives of New Jersey. Rachel
was born in Warren County, Dec. 19, 1840, by her Mr.
Kirby has had four children, two now survive - Era
Alice and Moses E. His wife died in
October, 1876. On Feb. 7, 1878, he married for his
second wife Elizabeth A., daughter of David and
Sarah (Spraight) Wills, natives of Warren Co., Ohio.
The grandfather was James Wills, a native of New
Jersey, but who emigrated to Ohio and settled in Warren
County prior to 1800, being one of the early pioneers.
David Wills died in January, 1875, aged 75 years; he
was the father of five children, four now survive -
Unity, Elizabeth, Hannah, Jane and James B. Mr.
Wills was twice married: by his first wife he had one
son, who is now living - William, married Hannah
Venable, by whom he had six children, five now living -
Hannah, Unity Charles Ada and Myrtle.
His wife died in June, 1880. James B. Wills,
youngest son of David and Sarah Wills, married
Florence Crane, by whom he has three children -
Mattie Mary, David L. and Joseph Walter. Mr. Kirby,
after his marriage located on the old home place, where he
lived five years; thence located on the place where he now
lives and has since resided. Mr. Kirby has
never held or sought office, but they are among the
"well-to-do" and substantial farmers of Clear Creek
Township, are kind and accommodating neighbors, and among
our county's best citizens.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 911 |
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Clear Creek Twp. -
SAMUEL KIRBY, farmer; P. O. Pekin;
born in Warren Co., Nov. 27, 1828; is a son of Samuel and
Mary (Miller) Kirby, he a native of Warren County, and
she of Virginia. The grandfather was Richard Kirby,
a native of New Jersey but who became a resident of Warren
Co., Ohio, where he lived and died. Samuel, the
father, grew to manhood on the home place of his father in
Turtle Creek Township; was married to Mary daughter
of Jacob Miller, and located on the home place where
he lived and died. He died in the prime of his life,
aged 36 years; his wife survived him till August, 1879, aged
72 years. They had seven children children, five now
survive - Cordelia, now Mrs. Shrimp; Elizabeth Ann,
now Mrs. Braden; Mary Ellen, now Mrs. Davis; Ecick
and Samuel. The subject of this sketch was but
a small child when his father died, but remained with his
mother till 12 years of age, when he started out in the
world for himself and worked here and there as he could find
work and a home till 24 years of age; was married, Mar. 3,
1852, to Sarah, daughter of Francis and Cassie
Graham, natives of this county, by which union they have
five children - Arsamus, born Oct. 31, 1853,
Horace, Jan. 30, 1859; Niles, Aug. 15, 1860;
Lamar, Jan. 7, 1867; and Jennie, Jan. 1, 1872.
Mr. Kirby after his marriage resided two years on a
portion of the old home farm; thence three years on Dr.
Keever's place; thence, in 1857, he bought and located
on the William Kirby farm. In 1869, he bought
the farm where he now lives, of the heirs of Henry King,
and in spring of 1870 moved on to it; here he ha erected all
the buildings on the place and now has a fine home and
residence. Mr. Kirby is an energetic, active
man, and by his industry and general business tact has
become owner of two farms, embracing 155 acres of good land,
and is now well situated to enjoy the comforts of life.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 910 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
JOHN KNOX (deceased) was born in
Ireland in 1809, and emigrated to America in 1818 with his
parents, who settled in Turtle Creek Township in the section
where they now live; he obtained his education in the
village of Lebanon and followed farming until his death; he
was a very industrious and hardworking man, full of the
vigor and energy that characterizes the people of his
nativity. He was married, in Dec., 1836, to Miss
Mary Jane Cowan, a native of Turtle Creek Township, and
a sister of David Cowan of Warren County; they had
four children, three girls and one boy, viz., Margaret J.
of Butler Co., Ohio; Mary E., the wife of Boyd
Forman, a farmer of Turtle Creek Township, and
Charles C., who has attended to the home farm since his
father's death. Mr. and Mrs. Knox were both
members of the Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882
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