A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . land, and is a memberof the county central Republican committee. He is a prominent memberof Richland Lodge Xo. 38, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and hasbeen secretary of the Richland Land and Improvement Company since itwas organized in 1895. In company with nine other men he bought theWasson farm near the town of Richland and laying it out in lots madeit an addition of the town, now an admirable portion of the town. In1897 Mr. Williams built one of the finest residences of the town. He fillshis office very energetically,
A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . land, and is a memberof the county central Republican committee. He is a prominent memberof Richland Lodge Xo. 38, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and hasbeen secretary of the Richland Land and Improvement Company since itwas organized in 1895. In company with nine other men he bought theWasson farm near the town of Richland and laying it out in lots madeit an addition of the town, now an admirable portion of the town. In1897 Mr. Williams built one of the finest residences of the town. He fillshis office very energetically, being always on the lookout for some op-portunity to advance the interests of the town of which he has been electedhead. JOHN O. KEEP. Among the farmers of Keokuk county who after years of closeconnection with the business interests of this portion of the state arenow living retired, is numbered John O. Keep, who was born in Eriecounty, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of August, 1840, but sought in thewest the business opportunities which have enabled him to attain to a. GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 46,3 position of affluence. His father, Marcena Keep, was also born in theKeystone state and there spent his early childhood. He followedthe occupation of farming and in 1823 was united in marriage, inPennsylvania, to Polly Hewitt, a native of one of the New Englandstates. They became the parents of eleven children, nine sons andtwo daughters, as follows: Abner N.; Oliver D., deceased: Prosper has also passed away: Amos K. deceased: Asa II.; Reuben F.,Sally L.; Alsinus, deceasad; John O., of Ibis review: Olive R., andEdmund E. The father of this family passed away in Pennsylvaniaon the 7th of August. 1S76, at the age of seventy-four years. He wasa stalwart supporter of the Republican party and at one time held mem-bership in the Methodist Episcopal church, while later he became iden-tified with the Wesleyan Methodist church. Subsequently, however,he returned to the denomin
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