Conrad and Louisa (Gemmer) Keeline came from Germany to Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1839, bringing their son George, born near Frankfort in 1825. George married Sophia Heneca, the daughter of a Wheeling brick maker, and ran sawmills and wood mills across the river at Bridgeport, Ohio. In 1854 he bought several thousand acres in western Iowa, some at eighty-six cents an acre, and he moved to Council Bluffs in 1868, with the family following in 1869. In 1873 he and his son George A. formed George Keeline & Son, a cattle business that moved from Colorado to Wyoming in 1877 and ran about twenty-five thousand cattle; another son, William Stewart Keeline, worked the Wyoming ranch before raising cattle and fruit in Pottawattamie County. George died in Council Bluffs in 1901, and Sophia was still living in the brick homestead on East Pierce street in 1907. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Pottawattamie County history.
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Conrad Keeline and Louisa (Gemmer) Keelinethe earliest generation in the recordMost recent in our records
William Stewart Keelineborn 1862Tap a name to jump to that person.
Mill owner, landowner and cattleman; Council Bluffs
George Keeline was a well-to-do and prominent citizen of Council Bluffs, who dated his residence from 1868 and here made his home until he was called to his final rest. He engaged in the stock business and also in loaning money but lived practically retired while in Pottawattamie county. He was born near Frankfort, Germany, on the 3d of March, 1825, a son of Conrad and Louisa (Gemmer) Keeline, both of whom were natives of Germany. They came to America in 1839, settling at Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Wife of George Keeline
Ran the family cattle range
Cattle and fruit raiser; Council Bluffs
WILLIAM STEWART KEELINE.
William Stewart Keeline, a resident of Council Bluffs, with business interests that connect him with the raising of cattle and fruit in Pottawattamie county, was born in Bridgeport, Belmont county, Ohio, on the 2d of December, 1862. In 1870 his parents took up their above in Council Bluffs and much of his life has since been passed in this city. He acquired his education in the public schools and in Blum's Academy here, pursuing his studies to the age of seventeen or eighteen years, when he put aside his text-books and went upon his father's cattle ranch in Wyoming, there remaining until 1886, during which time he gained a comprehensive knowledge of the cattle business in all of the work of the ranch and the shipment of stock to market. In the year mentioned he returned to Council Bluffs and in connection with his brother-in-law, C. L. Felt, he embarked in the wholesale hardware business, conducting the store with good success for seven years. In 1893, however, he sold out and has since given his undivided time and attention to the raising of cattle and fruit in Pottawattamie county. In both lines he has prospered and has produced some of the finest stock as well as some of the finest fruit ever seen in this part of the state.
In June, 1887, Mr. Keeline was married, in Council Bluffs, to Miss Julia Dohaney, a daughter of John Dohaney, and unto them have been born six children, namely: Clarence D., Margaret, John Frank, Katherine, Adele and William Stewart Keeline, Jr.
Mr. Keeline holds membership in lodge No. 531, B. P. 0. E. He is a republican where state and national questions are involved but cases an independent local ballot. His well directed labors are bringing to him a goodly competence, which is increasing annually as he enlarged the scope of his business.
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