Who's who in Pennsylvania; containing authentic biographies of Pennsylvanians who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement. First Edition. V.1, Pt.1, Part 67

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910, ed
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York, L. R. Hamersly company
Number of Pages: 844


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KAST, Ida G .:


Lawyer; born at Mechanicsburg, Pa .. where she still resides with her parents; is a great-great-granddaughter of Hans Georg Kast, who came to this country from Ger- many in 1751. She was graduated from Ir- ving College in 1892; taught one year in Ir- ving College and two years in the public schools of Cumberland County. In 1893 she began the study of law in the office of Hon William Penn Lloyd of Mechan- icsburg; her application for preliminary examination was refused by the Board of Examiners of the Cumberland County bar on account of her sex; a rule granted on the Board at her instance was made absolute, and she was registered as a student in May, 1894; admitted to Cum- berland County bar in 1896; is also mem- ber of Philadelphia bar, and of the bar of the Supreme and the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Pennsylvania State and Cumberland County Bar Associations. Resides and practices at Mechanicsburg, Pa.


KAUFFMAN, Albert Bradford:


Lieutenant Colonel United States Army; born in Lancaster City, Pa., July 16, 1828; private, Corporal and Sergeant Company D, Eleventh United States Infantry (raised in Lewistown, Pa.), from March 18, 1847, to Aug. 16, 1848, during the war with Mexico; marched from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico and Toluca; served under General Scott; participated in all the battles in the valley of Mexico, leading to the capture and occupation of the city, and remained in Mexico till the close of the war. Private, Corporal, Sergeant and First Sergeant Company F, Sixth United States Infantry, from Jan. 11, 1850, to Nov. 21, 1859, protecting the overland immigration from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast from hostile Indians; commended in General Orders, War Department, for gallantry in action against the Mojave Indians, Arizona, in 1859, in which that tribe was completely subjugated. Private. Corporal, Sergeant and First Sergeant Company I, First and Fourth United States Cavalry, and Cap- tain and Major Eleventh Cavalry Missouri Volunteers, from Sept. 12, 1860, to July 27. 1865, when he was honorably mus- tered out of service; services in the In- dian Territory before and during the entire period of the Civil War. Was in the engagement at Wilson Creek, Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Pittsburg Land- ing and Corinth; also many minor con-


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fliets with the enemy, both east and west of the Mississippi River, but especially in Northern Arkansas; received a favorable mention in the official report of Major Gen. Lew Wallace for services rendered him in his engagement with the enemy at Pittsburg Landing in 1862. First Lieu- tenant Eighth United States Cavalry, July 28, 1866; Regimental Quartermaster, Aug. 26, 1867; Captain, May 13, 1869; Major, Feb. 18, 1897; retired as Major, Jan. 1, 1892, after forty years' service. Services in Indian countries: Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and North Dakota. Retired as Lieutenant Colonel on April 23, 1904. Ad- dress, Webster Groves, Mo.


KAUFFMAN, Joseph Anthony:


Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Second Lieutenant 154th Penn- sylvania Infantry, Jan. 6, 1863; First Lieutenant, June 22, 1863; honorably mus- tered out, Sept. 29, 1863; Second Lieuten- ant 186th Pennsylvania Infantry, May 30, 1864; honorably mustered out, Aug. 15, 1865; elected Feb. 3, 1886. Address, 1736 Lindenwood St., Philadelphia, Pa.


KAUFFMAN, Morris L .:


Lawyer and business manager; born in Allentown, Pa., June 11, 1848; studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Lehigh County in 1870. As a lawyer he built up a large business, and won fame as a brilliant forensic orator. He has Jong been an active Republican, but has refused to hold any office except that of Councilman. His strong interest in mil- itary matters brought him the ranks of Captain and Major in the National Guard of Pennsylvania; he has long been prominent in business matters in Allentown, engaging in real estate deal- ings and fostering manufacturing enter- prises, a number of which he induced to locate in that city. He is a Director of the Allentown Gas Company, the Allen- town Spinning Company, the Bethlehem Silk Company, and is largely interested in street railways, being President of a number of companies in Allentown and its vicinity and Director in others; he has also been connected with the Allentown National Bank, and is Treasurer of the Steam Heat and Power Company and trust officer of the Lehigh Valley Trust and Safe Deposit Company. Member of the orders of Masons and Odd Fellows and of the Livingston Club. Address. Allentown, Pa.


KAUFFMAN, Reginald Wright:


Novelist and journalist; comes of an old Pennsylvania family, the first Amer- ican representative of which, Christian Kauffman, came to this country from Germany in 1717 and settled at once in Manor Township, Lancaster County (then Proprietor's Manor, Chester Coun- ty). Son of Andrew John Kauffman, a well-known lawyer, and Anna F. (Bru- ner) Kauffman. In 1897-1898 he was re- porter on local staff of Philadelphia Press, and since on editorial staff, as a writer of editorials, assistant literary editor. Au- thor of "Jarvis of Harvard," 1901; "The Things That Are Cæsar's," 1902; "The Chasm," 1903," and "In the Balance," 1904; he contributes to The Smart Set, Ainslee's The Bookman. The Reader, etc. Member of the Harvard Club of Philadel- phia and The Pegasus. On June 2, 1897, he married at Lancaster, Pa., Eleanor Catherine Diller, daughter of H. A. Dil- ler, of that city. Residence, Columbia, Pa .; office, The Press, Philadelphia, Pa.


KAUFMAN, C. M .:


President and General Manager of the Williams Valley Railroad; born at Llew- ellyn, Schuylkill County, Pa., July 2, 1862; moved to Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pa., with his parents in 1869. Commenced work as a slate picker at Brookside Colliery, an anthracie coal mine, in 1872. at ten years of age; edu- cated in common school. In 1SS5 took charge of a general store; in 1891 was one of the promoters and organizers of the Williams Valley Railroad Company; elected President and General Manager in 1904; assisted in organizing the Wil- liams Valley Bank, Williamstown, Pa., in 1900 (a Director and Secretary of the board); Citizen's Water Company, at Tower City, Pa., in 1893 ( President) ; the Tower City National Bank in 1902 (Pres- ident); organized and established Green- wood Cemetery in Tower City in 1836. He holds considerable real estate. timber and farming land in the vicinity of Tower City. Address, Tower City, Pa.


KAYE. John William:


Clergman, author; born in Hudders- field, Yorkshire, England, Jan. 9, 1846: came to America in 1852 and settled in Philadelphia; was a student at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1870-1872; was graduated from Princeton, 1874; Divinity School. Protestant Episcopal Church. Philadelphia, 1876. Served in Pennsyl-


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vania Militia during the Lee invasion, June and July, 1863; private in the Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1864-1865, be- coming Second Lieutenant, June, 1865. Ordained deacon, 1876, and priest, 1877, Protestant Episcopal Church; Rector St. Timothy's, Philadelphia, 1883-1388; Chap- lain Lehigh University, 1SS8-1889; Ali Saints, Norristown, Pa., 1890-1894; Assist- ant Rector St. David's, 1854-1900. Mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Author of "Luray Cave," "Flight, Cap- ture and Imprisonment of Jefferson Da- vis," "Night Ascent of Vesuvius," "The Royal Tomb at Charlottenbury." Ad- dress, 2820 Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.


KEAM, Thomas Varker:


Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyai Legion; Second Lieutenant First New Mexico Cavalry, Feb. 13, 1865; honorably mustered out, Sept. 29, 1866; elected Nov. 12, 1890. Address, Keam's Canon, Ark.


KEAR, Charles R .:


President of the First National Bank of Minersville. Address, Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pa.


KEASBEY, Lindley Miller:


Educator. author; Professor Political Science. Bryn Mawr College; born in Newark, N. J., Feb. 24. 1867; was grad- uated from Harvard in 1SS8; Ph. D., Co- lumbia; R. P. D., Kaiser Wilhelm Uni- Versity, Strassburg, Germany; Professor Political Science, State University of Colorado, 1892-1894. Married, June 8. 1892. Nelly Simrall. . Author of "The Nic- aragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine." Translator of "The Economic Founda- tions of Society." from French of Achille Loria; also monographs and contributions to magazines on political and economic subjects. Address, Bryn Mawr. Pa.


KEATOR, John F .:


Lawyer: born in Roxbury, a village of the Catskill Mountain region of New York, April 16, 1850; he worked as a boy at farm labor, and at seventeen began school teaching to obtain funds to edu- cate himself; he was graduated in 1877 at Yale College, and in 1879 at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania with the degree of L.L. B .; graduating as a law student, he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1\79, and entered actively upon the practice of his profession, in which he


became counsel in many cases of impor- tance. His law firm is Keator & Johnson. He was admitted to practice be- fore the Supreme Court of the United States in 1890. In public affairs he be- came active as a member of the Business Men's League in 1896, being their stand- ard bearer in the hot contest for reform that took place; in recognition of his services in this work he was nominated for the Legislature and elected by a flat- tering majority; in the House he proved an earnest advocate of non-partisan measures and rose to a position of lead- ership; he was appointed attorney for the House to investigate the cause and effect of the fire which destroyed the State capitol. He is a member of various so- cial and public charitable organizations, such as Methodist Episcopal Orphanage and Methodist Episcopal Hospital, and of the Masonic order, etc. Address, 218 West Walnut St., Germantown, Philadel- phia, Pa.


KEECH, Rev. D. Hayes, A. B., B. D .:


Born at York, Pa., Dec. 5, 1867; son of John S. Keech, Esq., a prominent York County Justice of the Peace; educated in the public schools and the York County Academy, York Pa .; completed the clas- sical course at the Moravian College and Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa .. and was graduated from the Theological Department of this institution. On June 24, 1896. he married Elizabeth K., daugh- ter of Alexander Cruickshank. of Beth- lehem, Pa .; was ordained a Deacon, the first order of the ministry in the Mora- vian Church; installed as pastor of the Moravian Church at Coopersburg, Le- high County, Pa .. Oct. 4, 1896, where he is still serving his first charge. In Feb- ruary, 1902. he was elected a School Di- rector in the Coopersburg District by the Republican Party to fill an unexpired term of one year; re-elected for a full term of three years. He is a member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Bath Silk Manufacturing Company since June, 1901; in May, 1903 he was ordained a Presbyter, the second order of the ministry in the Moravian Church. For a number of years he had been ac- tively engaged in newspaper work. Ad- dress, Coopersburg, Fa.


KERCH, William Henry :


Merchant; born in Washington County. 1 Pa .. July 17, 1854; educated in the public- schools, and, after some preliminary mer- 1


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cantile service, engaged in business for himself, opening in 1879 upon Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg, the stores which he still controls. But his mercantile busi- ness has absorbed only a portion of his energy, and for years he has been closely identified with the street railway inter- ests of Pittsburg, having taken a lead- ing part in the construction and manage- ment of the various lines. He has been an officer in several of these lines, being a Director of the United Traction and the Second Avenue Traction Companies, and President of the Pleasant Valley and Federal Street lines. He is also promi- nent in financial matters, being a Direc- tor of the Pittsburg National Bank of Commerce and of the City Insurance Company. Mr. Keech married, in 1880, Miss Elizabeth Bruback, of Pittsburg. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.


KEEFER, Charles F .:


President of the Chartiers Trust Com- pany. Address, McKees' Rocks, Alle- gheny County, Pa.


KEELY, Robert Neff:


Physician; born in Pennsylvania; was graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege in 1882; was surgeon to Lieutenant Peary's Arctic Expedition, 1891-1892. Author of "In Arctic Seas," and "Trav- els on the Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua," Member of Geological Society of Phila- delphia and Archæological Society of University of Pennsylvania. Address, 128 South- Twenty-second St .. Philadel- phia, Pa.


KEEN, Gregory Bernard:


Curator and Secretary of the Council of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania; born in Philadelphia, March 3, 1844; son of Joseph Swift and Lucy Ann (Hutton) Keen; A. B., University of Pennsylvania, 1861; A. M., 1864; was graduated at Divinity School of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church in Philadel- phia and ordained Deacon of the Church in 1866; resigned this office and became a Catholic in 1868; during 1869 and 1870 he traveled in Europe. He attended lec- tures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1870 and 1871: Professor of Mathematics in the Theological Seminary of St. Charles Bar- romeo at Overbrook, Pa., in 1871 and 1872, and for several years devoted him- self to the study of Greek literature. He was Corresponding Secretary of the His-


torical Society of Pennsylvania from ISSO to 198; librarian of the University of Pennsylvania, 1887-1897; librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1903, when he became Curat- or of that society. As executor of Prof. Geo. Allen, LL. D., prepared a catalogue of his famous chess library, printed in 1878; edited the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in 1883 and 1884. contributing translations of various Dutch and Swedish manuscripts and pamphlets relating to the early Swedish colony on the Delaware, as well as a series of articles on "The Descendants of Joran Kyn, the Founder of Upland," his first American ancestor; wrote the chapters on "New Sweden" and "New Albion" in the "Narrative and Critical History of America," edited by Justin Winsor; prepared the "Catalogue of the Collection of Autographs Formed by Fer- dinand Julius Dreer," privately printed in 1890-1893. He was a delegate to the Columbian Catholic Congress at Chica- go in 1893; has been historiographer of the Alumni Society of the College De- partment of the University of Pennsyl- vania since 1890. Member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, the American Philosophical Society, the American Catholic Historical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Pennsylvania So- ciety of Sons of the Revolution, the So- ciety of the War of 1812, and registrar of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. He married in 1885 Stella Maria, daugh- ter of John Marshall and Hanna Mar- tina (Gunwalsen) Watson of New York. Address, 2320 Spruce St., Philadelphia.


KEEN, William Williams, M. D .:


Born in Philadelphia, Jan. 19. 1837; de- scendant on his father's side from Joran Kyn, a Swede, who came to America with Governor Printz in 1642, and on his mother's side from the Budds of Somer- setshire. England; he was graduated from the Central High School in 1853: Brown University in 1859, and Jefferson Medical College in 1862; he served for two years in the Civil War as a surgeon, being with Drs. Weir Mitchell and George R. More- house in the Turner's Lane Hospital for Diseases and Injuries of the Nervous System. After spending two years in European study (1864-1866), he settled in Philadelphia and began medical teach- ing. conducting courses in anatomy and surgery in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy; Professor of Artistic Anat-


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omy in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1889. Profes- sor of Surgery in the Women's Medical College from 1884 to 1889, and has been Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College since 1889. Author and editor of several surgical text books, and of the history of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia at its bi-Centennial in 1898; has written a large number of pa- pers for various medical journals. In 1891 Brown University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., and in 1903 the Northwestern University and the Uni- versity of Toronto conferred the same degree. In 1898 he was President of the American Surgical Association; 1899, President of the American Medical As- sociation; 1900 and 1901, President of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia: 1903, President of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons; 1900, was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; he is also an honorary member of the Ger- man Surgical Society, the Clinical So- ciety of London, the Surgical Society of Paris, and of the Belgian Surgical So- ciety. Address, 1729 Chestnut St., Phila- delphia.


KEENAN, John Barclay:


Lawyer; born on Hong Kong Island, Oct. 15, 1859; eldest son of Gen. James Keenan, United States Consul, 1852-1862; and Elizabeth Barclay Keenan; educated at Greensburg public schools and Can- onsburg, Pa., Academy; was graduated at Princeton, N. J., in class of 1880. He studied law with Hon. H. P. Laird at Greensburg, Pa .; admitted to West- moreland County, Pa., bar, June, 1SS5. Elected Captain, Company I, Tenth Reg- iment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in January, 1$83; resigned, August, 1SS5; district delegate to Democratie National Convention, 1896; delegate at large from Pennsylvania to Kansas City Convention, 1900. Member of Democratic State Ex- ecutive Committee, 1900-1904: presided at Pennsylvania Democratie State Con- ventions, 1896 and 1901; now praetieing law at Greensburg. Westmoreland Coun- ty, Pa. Address, Greensburg, Westmore- land County, Pa.


KEENAN, Thomas Johnston, Jr. :


Journalist; born in Pittsburg. Nov. 22. 1859: son of the late Thomas J. Keenan, who was a prominent member of the Allegheny County bar; on his mother's


side (Sophia Latimer Gaskell) he comes from one of the oldest families in the State; his maternal ancestors came to America in 1664 with William Penn, from whose only surviving child, Guli- elma Penn. the Gaskell family are de- scended. He was educated at the West- ern University of Pennsylvania; in 1880 he began his life's work as reporter on the Morning Times, and in less than three years was promoted to the editorship of that paper; in 1884 he organized a stock company to publish the Press. the first successful penny paper issued in Pitts- burg; he was thoroughly identified with its success as editor in chief, President of the company, and one of its principal owners. He was one of the original members of the Pittsburg Press Club, and served in every official capacity in that prosperous organization; he organ- ized and was President of the Interna- tional League of Press Clubs, a body em- bracing more than 4,000 city newspaper men and women; he was its first Presi- dent, and he has been Chairman of its Executive Committee continually since its organization, ten years ago; he is the American Director of, the World's Bureau of Press Associations, having been honored in 1897 by being sent to Stockholm as the first American repre- sentative. As Secretary and Executive Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Com- mission for the great Atlanta Exposition of 1895, he prepared the splendid display made by his State, handling the finances so successfully that he was. enabled to . .. turn a balance of $7,000.000 back into the State Treasury when the commission wound up its affairs. He takes an active interest in charity, and through popular subscription raised a fund of nearly $40.000 for the erection of the Pittsburg Newsboys' Home. one of the finest insti- tutions in the United States, of which he has been President for a number of years; he also erected, by same means, a handsome bronze monument to the memory of Stephen G. Foster. He was the organizer and first President of the Publishers' Press Association, and has been at the head of a number of impor- tant local and national business enter- prises. He was an officer in the Na- tional Guards for a number of years, resigning a Lieutenant Colonelcy in a Pittsburg regiment to accept a position on the staff of Governor Stone; in 1989 he was unanimously elected President of the League of American Wheelmen, and


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during his incumbency accomplished much for the benefit of the organization. In 1901 he retired from active newspaper work and disposed of his interest in the Press, since which time he has been ex- tensively identified with a number of large financial enterprises. After the close of the Spanish-American War he became interested in the Isle of Pines, and purchased large tracts of land there; his holdings include the mountain known as Sierra Caballos, which contains the famous marble quarries which have at- tracted so much attention to the island for many years, and an old Spanish estate, known as Brazo Fuerte, which he has restored and improved and now occupies as a winter home. Upon the organization of the American Residents' Association he was elected President. and as such has secured many advan- tages for the residents of the island. Address, Farmers' Bank Building, Pitts- burg, Pa.


KEENE, Walter B., M. D .. D. O .:


Born in Providence. R. I., Nov. 20, 1867; ancestors were old-time New Eng- landers: educated in native city; studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, also at College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York city; was graduated in medicine from Jefferson College in 1891, and practiced profession nine years in Philadelphia; in 1899 he took a post-graduate course in Philadel- phia College of Osteopathy and graduated in 1900. He was Professor of Diagnosis, Symptomatology and Minor Surgery in above institution for two years; in 1904 he was elected Vice .President of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy; he was the first President of the Alumni As- sociation of Philadelphia College of Oste- opathy and was re-elected in 1903. Mem- ber of the Philadelphia County and Penn- sylvania State Societies; also of the American Osteopathic Association. Ad- dress. 5103 Hazel Ave., W. Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.


KEESE, Francis S .:


Soldier; born in New York city. Dec. 25, 1841; great grandson of John Keese, who was an officer in the War for Inde- pendence and who was a member of the Order of the Cincinnati. He enlisted in the First New Jersey Infantry, May, 1861; appointed Sergeant. May 29, 1861; dis- charged to accept promotion. Aug. 30, 1862; Captain Company C, 128th New


York Infantry, Sept. 4, 1862; promoted to Major, Sept. 15, 1863, and to Lieuten- ant Colonei, Nov. 29, 1864; brevetted Colonel, March 13, 1865, for services in the battle of Winchester, where he was wounded: mustered out Sept. 6, 1865; served with Mcclellan's army in the Peninsula campaign, Banks with in


Louisiana, and with Sheridan in the


Shenandoah Valley. Member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Netherlands Society of Pennsyl- vania. Address, Union League, Phila- delphia, Pa.


KEESEY, Horace:


President of the Farmers' National Bank. Address, York, Pa.


KEISER, Elmer E., M. D .:


Born Feb. 7, 1863, near Lewisburg, Union County, Pa .; educated at Bucknell Academy and Bucknell College; degrees A. B. and A. M .; was graduated in medi- cine at University of Pennsylvania in 1889; after taking special courses at the university located in Tacony. Philadel- phia, where he has continued to prac- tice profession. Physician to St. Vin- cent's Orphan Asylum. Old Ladies' Home, and on staff of Frankford Hospital; sur- geon to several large industrial works. Member of Philadelphia County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical So- ciety, and the American Medical Asso- ciation. In 1890 he married Jeanie Deans of Revolutionary ancestry; they have two sons, Hubert Deans and Laurence Bolton. When a student he enlisted in Company A, Twelfth. Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania; served five years; discharged as a non-commissioned ofli- cer; re-entered the service in 1903 as Cap- tain of Company M, First Regiment In- fantry. Address, 6931 Tulip St., Tacony, Philadelphia, Pa.


KEISER, James W., M. D .:


Born in Reading, Pa., Sept. 24, 1860; educated in the public schools; com- menced the study of medicine at the age of sixteen; was graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1882. and at once entered upon the practice of his profession in the city of Reading. He is Secretary of the Pathological Society of Berks County, and has acquired a repu- tation as a writer on medical and sani- tary topics. Married Dr. Clara Shetter. who practices inedicine with her hus- band as Dr. Clara Shetter Keiser. Ad- dress, Reading, Pa.


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KEITH, Charles Penrose:




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