When Peter Reuben Keiter Jr was born on 23 November 1854, in Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Peter Rueben Keiter, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Lubold, was 30. He married Nancy Jane Hollabaugh in 1882, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wayne Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 40 years and French Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 5 March 1928, in Canal Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Cochranton Cemetery, Cochranton, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
German: probably a nickname from Middle High German kīde, kīt ‘sprout; offspring, scion’; or an occupational name for a brewer, from Low German Keute, Kuyte ‘kind of beer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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