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John E. Keiner

Birth	:	1829 Germany
Death	:	27 Aug 1910
Burial	:	Center Grove Cemetery, Goose Lake, Clinton County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.9331017, -90.3535995
Description	:	Success has been worthily attained by Louis C. Keiner, who is prominently identified with the business life and upbuilding and development of the town of Goose Lake, Deep Creek township, Clinton county, a man who has the confidence and good will of all who know him, for his life has been exemplary. Mr. Keiner was born at Davenport, Iowa, February 13, 1865. He was reared there and attended school, later went to a German private school and received a good elementary education. He is the son of John E. and Catherine (Arp) Keiner, the former born in Schwartzau, Saxony, the latter... Read More	Success has been worthily attained by Louis C. Keiner, who is prominently identified with the business life and upbuilding and development of the town of Goose Lake, Deep Creek township, Clinton county, a man who has the confidence and good will of all who know him, for his life has been exemplary. Mr. Keiner was born at Davenport, Iowa, February 13, 1865. He was reared there and attended school, later went to a German private school and received a good elementary education. He is the son of John E. and Catherine (Arp) Keiner, the former born in Schwartzau, Saxony, the latter a native of America. They were married at Davenport, Iowa. He was by trade a nailsmith in the old country. He came to America in 1858, landed at New York and soon after came to Davenport, Iowa, when that city had just started. Later he was employed in a sawmill and was the head sawyer for twenty-five years. The firm name was French & Davis and later French & Son. During this period he married and later visited his native country one year, then returned to Davenport, and engaged in the saloon business two years. He was successful and then he settled on a farm in western Iowa and lived there six years. His wife died in 1880; then he returned to Davenport and lived there four years, then came to Goose Lake in January, 1893, and bought a hotel, including nine acres of land, and the subject took the business and has since conducted it successfully. He was formerly a Republican and later a Democrat, but never aspired to office. He was reared in the Lutheran church, from which faith he never departed. He was enterprising and public spirited and well posted in business. He bought bank stock and also brewery stock. He came to America with no money, but by good financial methods and honest dealing, he created a good estate. For many years he made his home with the subject, his son, after coming to Goose Lake, where he died August 23, 1910, and was buried at the Engwesen cemetery. He was kindly cared for by his son and family and his declining years were spent in contentment and were the happy days of his life. The earliest days of his business life after coming to America, were spent like those of many Germans coming to this country- they had nothing to lose and all to make; he fought out the battle of life and won. He was a broad-minded, intelligent man and a good financier, ßy hard work and honest dealing he created a competency for his old age. He was social and enjoyed friends around him. He was charitable to the afflicted and needy, a good neighbor and friend. He became widely known and highly respected, his integrity and honesty being above reproach. He reared two sons and one daughter, all influential and highly respected, the subject being the second youngest child. The father died at a ripe old age, being in his eighty-third year. Excerpt from Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Iowa, Excerpt, pages 942, 943 and 944

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