Biography of George Keen, page 736.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

George Keen, farmer, section 17, Richland Township, was born in 
Somersetshire, England.  In 1825, a son of Samuel and Jane (Dorsetter) 
Keen.  In 1835 his parents came to the United States and settled in Onondaga 
County, N.Y., and three years later moved to Huron County, Ohio, where he 
grew to manhood.  In 1849 he came to Indiana and built a log house on land 
he had previously purchased in De Kalb County; then returned to Huron County 
and was married in the spring of 1850 to Caroline Parker, a native of New 
York. The next fall he moved to his frontier home, where the following 
spring his wife died.  Mr. Keen’s first purchase was eighty acres of 
uncultivated land.  To this he has added till he now owns 300 acres of 
choice land, all well improved.  He was married a second time, in 1852, to 
Minerva Franklin, a daughter of George and Esther (Loomis) Franklin, who 
moved from Sandusky County, Ohio, to Steuben County, Ind., in 1840.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Keen have had twelve children---Mary J., Caroline (deceased), Alvia, 
Millie Bell (deceased), Amos, Sarah, Henry, John, Edward (deceased), Boyd, 
Wesley, and one who died in infancy.  Politically, Mr. Keen is a Repbulican.  
He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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