Individual Details

Lucy Elliot Keeler

(27 Sep 1864 - 11 Mar 1930)

Lucy Keeler attended Fremont public schools, and Wells College; joined a correspondence school initiated by a distant cousin, Miss Anna Ticknor of Boston for two years as a student, and more than fifteen years as an instructor in American History. She published, for a year, a little monthly, Pot Pourri; was a correspondent and contributor for her father's newspaper, The Fremont Journal. She also contributed articles to Outlook, Outing, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Wide-Awake, Youth's Companion, etc., and wrote numerous monographs on Ohio and local history. She was the author of two books, If I Were a Girl Again and If I Were a Boy. She was a charter member of the Matinee Musical Club and of the Col. George Croghan Chapter, D.A.R. (Fremont, Oh). After the return of ex-President Hayes and Mrs. Hayes from Washington, she was in constant, almost daily, contact with them.
by Watt Marchman

Obituary in the Fremont Messenger, March 11, 1930 p. 1 and March 12, 1930, pg. 3.

Events

Birth27 Sep 1864Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH
Death11 Mar 1930Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH
BurialOakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH

Families

FatherIsaac Marvin Keeler (1823 - 1907)
MotherJanette "Jinny" Elliot (1820 - 1899)
SiblingSamuel Pease Keeler (1859 - 1932)
SiblingNettie Reed Keeler (1861 - 1863)

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