. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . all the difficultsurroundings and circum-stances were very laboriousand constant. Upon the com-panies resuming managementin 1888, Mr. Keim was made aDirector in the Philadelphiaand Reading Railroad Com-pany and President of the Coaland Iron Company ; the latterposition he resigned in January, 1891, believing that theinterest of the Railroad Com-pany and the Coal and IronCompany would be promotedby placing the managementin one and the same person—Mr. A. A. McLeod, Presidentof the Railroad Company. He has long been con-nected with the Historical So-cie
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . all the difficultsurroundings and circum-stances were very laboriousand constant. Upon the com-panies resuming managementin 1888, Mr. Keim was made aDirector in the Philadelphiaand Reading Railroad Com-pany and President of the Coaland Iron Company ; the latterposition he resigned in January, 1891, believing that theinterest of the Railroad Com-pany and the Coal and IronCompany would be promotedby placing the managementin one and the same person—Mr. A. A. McLeod, Presidentof the Railroad Company. He has long been con-nected with the Historical So-ciety of Pennsylvania and oneof its Vice-Presidents. Byappointment of the Governorof the Commonwealth heserved with Simon Cameronand the Hon. Daniel Eniien-trout on the Commission whichselected General Peter Muhl-enberg and Robert Fulton assubjects for the statues to bepresented by the State to beplaced in the Capitol at Wash-ington. Mr. Keim married Eliza-beth Cooke Trezevant, onlydaughter of Louis Creiger Trez-evant, M. D., of South Caro-. George deB. Keim the extension of his lines into the citys very centre by means ofthe Reading Terminal. For these, his manifold and successful labors for his citys goodand his corporations prosperity, he well deserves a place amongPhiladelphias worthies. GEORGE deB. KEIM George deBenneville Keim, ex-President Philadelphia andReading Railroad Company and of the Philadelphia and ReadingCoal and Iron Company, was born in Reading, the eldest son ofGeorge M. Keim and Julia C. Mayer his wife, and was named afterhis grandfather, General George deB. Keim. He received a pre-liminary education in the local schools, and passed one term in theGeorgetown College, while his father was a member of Congressfrom Bucks. He was admitted to the Sophomore Class, DickinsonCollege, in 1846, graduating in 1849. He then took up the study ofchemistry in the laboratory of Dr. Charles M. Wetherill, withspecial reference to the analysis of minerals. In 1S50, returning t
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