Illinios:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin.  O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County

HENRY C. KEIL, hardware merchant, Beardstown; is a native 
of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; born Nov. 7, 1848.  He learned 
the tinner's trade, and worked some time at Frankfort-on-
the-Main, and came to this country in the spring of 1867.  
He worked in New York some time, and then came to 
Jacksonville, Ill., where he remained two years, coming to 
Beardstown in the fall of 1869, where he remained till 
1872, when he went to Europe, and spent a year.  On his 
return he worked at his trade, and in 1876, started for 
himself, where he has continued ever since, doing a large 
and constantly increasing business. In 1880, he bought his 
present two-story brick building on Main street, and added 
to his line of stoves and tinware a stock of hardware and 
farm implements.  In 1877, he married Miss Sophia Weiss, 
daughter of John Weiss, of this county.

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