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History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania
Edited by A. J. Davis
Pub. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. - 1887

         [p. 662-663]
         
         KEATING, JOHN, the subject of this sketch, was born in
       Huntingdon county, Pa., December 24, 1804, being the youngest
       of a family of seven, five sisters and two brothers; all now
       dead. JOHN was the last survivor. In ______ he came with his
       five sisters to Muninsville, Butler county, and in 1838 or '39
       he removed with his family to Emlenton to engage in mercantile
       business. He formed a partnership with JOHN VENSEL in 1846, and
       erected Richland Furnace in this county, beginning the manufacture
       of charcoal iron the following year. Thus he prosecuted success-
       fully for a number of years. About 1850 he moved with his family
       and took up his residence at the furnace, where he continued to
       live till his decease. In 1866 he was elected associate judge as
       a Democratic candidate, his term expiring 1871. HON  HUGH MAGUIRE
       was his colleague.
       
         JUDGE KEATING was conspicuously identified with the industrial
       interests of Richland township, and his correct and honorable
       business principles were rewarded by a comfortable income. At his
       death he was possessed of considerable real estate, much of it
       having proved valuable oil territory. In social life MR. KEATING
       was one of the pleasantest of men; of a kindly and equable temper-
       ament, he always preserved agreeable relations with is fellow-men.
       He died as he had lived - a consistent Roman Catholic, January 
       1st, 1881, at the age of seventy-six. His wife, CATHARINE, daughter
       of MICHAEL McCULLOUGH, deceased, of Pittsburgh, survives him. Of
       a family of seven children, three, two daughters and a son, MR.
       HUGH KEATING, of St. Petersburg, are now living.
       
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