Brown County Biographies
From "The Annals of Brown County", Grant Harrington, 1903
E. H. Keller.
E. H. Keller was born December
16, 1856, in Logan County, Ohio. He
was educated in the common schools
of the Buckeye State and began to
teach school at the age of nineteen.
In 1877 he came to Brown County
and after a two years residence here,
moved to Atchison County, between
Everest and Muscotah. In December
1883 he returned again to Brown
County, settling one and one-half
miles northeast of Horton where he
now resides. Here he has made a
specialty of dairy and fruit raising,
in all of which he has been very successful. His farm commands a fine
view of the town of Horton and surrounding country.
Mr. Keller was married March 17,
1880 to Miss Mary Honnell, daughter
of Henry W. Honnell, one of the
earliest settlers in Brown County.
They have four children: Esta, born
in 1882; Earl, born in 1884; Ethel,
born in 1886 and Erwin, born in 1888.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Keller are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr.
Keller is an active worker in the
Sunday School affairs and for eight
years he was superintendent of the
Sunday School He has been twice
elected as President of the Brown
County Sunday School Association
and for two years has served as a
member of the Executive Board of
the State Association. He has also
served as Vice President of the State
Temperance Association.
In politics he was a Republican
until 1896, when he broke with the
party on the silver question and
made an active canvass of the
county in the interests of Wm. J.
Bryan. In 1898 he was nominated by
the Free Silver County Convention
for Representative and made an active
Canvass of the County, during the
campaign, demonstrating that he
was a campaigner of force and ability.
Mr. Keller takes an active interest in
the Farmer's Institute, and for a
number of years has been one of its
most active workers.
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