When Robert Haul Keith was born on 10 January 1850, in Jennings, Indiana, United States, his father, Mason Parks Keith, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Jane Lewis, was 38. He married Fannie Laura Gibbons on 13 March 1870. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Ninnescah Township, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Haven, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 21 February 1940, in Sumner Township, Reno, Kansas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ninnescah Township, Reno, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1852: Jennings, Indiana, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
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