A. J. Keever Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 31 May 2003

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Union Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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A. J. KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Camp Hageman; was born in Turtle Creek Township in 1839; he is a son of Abraham and Anna (Longstreet) Keever. He was born in Pennsylvania, and with his parents, Abraham and Mary (Kane) Keever, came to Ohio in an early day, and first settled in Darke Co., Ohio, and afterward became citizens of Warren Co. Aaron and Mary (Higgins) Longstreet, parents of Anna, were natives of New Jersey, in which they were reared and married. In 1812, he kept a public house in New Trenton, N. J. In 1814, they came to Ohio and settled in Turtle Creek Township, where they lived till they died; his death occurred in 1856; she died in 1863. To them were born seven children, viz.: Samuel (who married Betsey Corwin), Euphemia (who married ------ Simpson), Mary (who married Andrew Burntager), Ann (who married Abraham Keever), and Mary (who was married to James M. Gallager), Aaron (for his first wife married Mary Gallager, and for his second, Nancy Ward). Abraham Keever, Sr., children were as follows: Thomas (married Polly Perrine), Joseph (married Mary Dugan), Anthony (married Polly Swanger), Betsy (married Phoenix See), Abraham (married Ann Longstreet), John and Phalix (unmarried), Lavinia (was married to Phoenix See), George (to Eliza Lawrence), and Polly (who married George Sears). To Aaron Keever, Jr., and wife were born four children, viz.: A. J. (married Mary Brown), Rebecca A. (was married to B. F. Gallager), Laving F. (married E. C. Dodds), and Mary M. (was married to Dr. J. B. Owens of Lebanon). Abraham, Jr., died in 1847, aged 39 years. Mrs. Keever was again married to John W. Hall, by whom she had one child, viz., Lurella (now Mrs.

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D. P. Wikoff). She (Mrs. H.) died in 1879, aged 66 years. Abraham, father of A. J., dealt largely in stock, and was one of the live business men of Warren Co. in his time, and was much respected by all who knew him; he was successful in business, and although dying young, left a farm of 200 acres. Anna, his wife, was a consistent member of the Methodist Church; Aaron Longstreet, her father, was a Presbyterian, and a very exemplary man. Our subject was reared on the farm, and in 1860 was married to Mary, daughter of David and Mary Brown. For four years after his marriage, he lived in the house where he was born. In 1865, he moved onto the Hawthorne farm in Union Township. In 1881, he came to the place where he resides, and during the summer of 1881 built a neat residence. He owns 110 acres of land which is in good cultivation.

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