HenryC. Keil
HENRYC. KEIL, a large and very successful dealer in all kinds of hardware, stovesand tinware, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, November 7, 1848. Hegrew up, attained his education and learned his trade of tinner in hisnative country. His father, Johanas Keil, is yet living in Germany at hisold home, and is seventy years of age. He has been all his life a farmer.He had married a Miss Elizabeth Moell, a native of his own province. Shedied at the age of sixty years. She and her husband had belonged all theirlives to the German Lutheran Church.HenryKeil is the eldest of four children. After coming to this country and locatingin Beardstown in 1867, he went back by way of Hamburg, Germany, in 1873;he returned to Beardstown in the spring of 1874, and has since lived here.He followed the tinner’s trade for some time. He began business for himselfin 1876, and has from that time on been increasing his stock and his trade.He carries a full line of first-class goods in a fine brick store of hisown building, which he erected on Main street in 1890. He is a live man,full of business, and one who works for the best interest of his city andcounty. He has been a stockholder in the First National bank since it wasstarted, first as a private bank in 1877, and later a national bank in1887.
Hewas married in Beardstown, to Sophia Weis. She was born at Hamilton Station,Cass county, and was there raised and educated. She is the daughter ofJohn and Catherine Weis, who both died on their old farm in Cass county.They were pioneers in Cass county, having come about 1840. Mr. and Mrs.Keil are members of the Lutheran Church, as were their parents. They havethree smart children: Alma, Arthur and Edwin, all still at home.
Mr.Keil is a Republican in politics, has been Alderman of the city for severalterms, and is a fine man in every way.
Biographical Review ofCass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review PublishingCo., Chicago, 1892, pages 241.
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