The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ter. managing his farm the integrity and great ability. In 1847 he was marriedto Clarissa A. McLaughlin of Arlington, Benningtoncounty, Vt., a granddaughter of Capt. Thomas Mc-Laug
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ter. managing his farm the integrity and great ability. In 1847 he was marriedto Clarissa A. McLaughlin of Arlington, Benningtoncounty, Vt., a granddaughter of Capt. Thomas Mc-Laughlin of Bedford, N. H., an officer in the revo-lutionary waV. She died Jan. 23, 1890, and on March 28, 1890. In their wills nearly$50,000 were left to CathoUc charities of Milwaukee,the orphans receiving a legacy of $20,000. The bal-ance of their fortune was left to their daughter, C. Keefe. KEEFE, John C, manufacturer and journal-ist, was born in Chicopee, Hampden county, Mass.,1846, where the Keefe family, of Irish, EngUsh, andDanish descent, resided for many years. In 1847 hisfather and grandfather purchased 640 acres of land in Jackson, Washington county, .._ Wis., then a primeval forest. Hisgrandfather removed to Wisconsiu in 1848, then a territory, helpedto survey his laud, and madefriends with the Indians, whosewinter home and wigwams wereon the property. Owing to thedeath of his fa
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