History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . And in the Centennial Year he became cityeditor of this paper. He has a splendid flow of language, is well read and traveled,and with his retentive memory is an interesting conversationalist. He writes in an easyand flowing style and his articles, while he was a journalist, were very favorably com-mented on by critics. On September 1, 1878. Mr. Keefe was married to Miss Helen Marie ONe
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . And in the Centennial Year he became cityeditor of this paper. He has a splendid flow of language, is well read and traveled,and with his retentive memory is an interesting conversationalist. He writes in an easyand flowing style and his articles, while he was a journalist, were very favorably com-mented on by critics. On September 1, 1878. Mr. Keefe was married to Miss Helen Marie ONeal, anative of Milwaukee, and the daughter of Edward and Hilda (Johnson) ONeal. had been mayor of Milwaukee for six terms, and at the time of their marriage,was a banker in that city. He sent his daughter to the Convent of the Holy Name inMilwaukee, and there she was given the education deemed necessary for a lady inpolite society and a practical world. With Mr. ONeals aid. Mr. Keefe built the Milwaukee Cracker and Candy Com-pany, but in 1892. when it had so grown that it was doing a business of a quarter of amillion dollars a year, he sold out his interest, and went in for the making of metal. HISTORY OF ORAXGE COUNTY 1207 furniture for bank vaults and offices. He patented a knife that would cut sheet brass,at the same time that it bent it into a half-round shape, making a metal used in officefurniture facing; having previously made two other notable inventions: a patent oven,for quick baking, put out in 1879. and a patent bill-file, now extensively used in offices,and given to the commercial-stationery world in 1894. When Mr. Keefe at length disposed of his holdings in this metal-furniture factory,he spent the following two years in handling realty in Milwaukee, and first came toCalifornia and West Orange in 1900. Then he traded some iron mine property inNorthern Michigan for a ranch of forty acres, now his home place, and there he himselfhas since planted five acres
Size: 1233px × 2028px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidhistoryofora, bookyear1921
