Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois . hip for ten years, and no publictrust reposed in him has ever been betrayed in theslightest degree. As a soldier upon the fields ofl)attle, as a legislator or as a i)rivate citizen he ise(|uallv loyal to the general good and he has madean honorable rei)utation in business circles as well. LEWIS KEITH. Lewis Keith, a retired fanner of Rockford towhom success has come in recognition of his un-tiring labor and his utilization of the oppor-tunities which have surrounded him—such as arecommon to all men,—has resided in this s
Past and present of the city of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois . hip for ten years, and no publictrust reposed in him has ever been betrayed in theslightest degree. As a soldier upon the fields ofl)attle, as a legislator or as a i)rivate citizen he ise(|uallv loyal to the general good and he has madean honorable rei)utation in business circles as well. LEWIS KEITH. Lewis Keith, a retired fanner of Rockford towhom success has come in recognition of his un-tiring labor and his utilization of the oppor-tunities which have surrounded him—such as arecommon to all men,—has resided in this sectionof Illinois from the peritxl of its pioneer develop-ment. For many years he was closely associatedwith agricultural interests and still owns valu-able farm ])roperty on the border line betweenBoone and Wiimebago counties. He is a nativeof Morgan county, Ohio, born May 2, 1826, andrepresents a family that was established inAmerica in colonial days. His great-grandfatheremigrated from Holland to the new world aboutfifteen vears Ix-fore the Revolutionarv war and. X-^iUU^-T^^ /O-X-^^^— PAST AND PRESENT OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY. 235 settled in New Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He wasa blacksmith by trade and conducted a shop therefor many years, after which he removed toHuntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where hisdeath occurred in 1810. During the war forindependence he served his country as a black-smith. His son Peter P. followed both black-smithing and farming and about 1814 removedfrom Pennsylvania to Morgan county, Ohio. In1836 he became a resident of Rockford, Illinois,which at that time contained only three housesthat were located on the east side of the riverjust below the present site of the water reared a family of twelve children and died atthe age of eighty-one years and four months. Lewis Keith, Sr., father of our subject, wasborn in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in1801, and in 1814 accompanied his parents toMorgan county. Ohio, where he lived until the6th o
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