Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Kellerman, William April 11, 1816 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

WILLIAM KELLERMAN,
for many years a popular hotel keeper in Blair county, and who recently died,
was a son of Christian and Catherine (Pool) Kellerman, and was born April 11,
1816, at Tyrone, Blair county, Pennsylvania.  His grandfather, Frederick
Kellerman, was a native of Germany, but was brought to America in the British
army at the beginning of the revolutionary war.  His sympathies were with the
struggling colonists, and embracing the first opportunity, he deserted from
the British forces, joined the American army, and did good service in the
cause of liberty and independence.  On one occasion he was detailed and
served in the guard at Valley Forge.  He was a blacksmith by occupation, and
died at Woodbury, Bedford county, this State.  Christian Kellerman (father)
was born in Lancaster county, March 12, 1790, but removed to what is now
Blair county during the first year of this century, locating with his father,
near Tyrone.  Later he removed to Colraine Forges, Huntingdon county, and from
there to Bald Eagle furnace in 1826.  He was a teamster by occupation, and
died in 1858, aged sixty-eight years.  He was a Lutheran in religious belief,
a democrat in politics, and married Catherine Pool.  She was born in this
county, was a devoted member of the Lutheran church, and died January 21,
1862, in the seventy-second year of her age.
      William Kellerman was reared in Blair county, and educated in the old
log school houses which were the temples of learning in those early days. 
After leaving school he engaged in wagoning and working around iron
furnaces.  In 1836 he went to Sarah Furnace, Bedford county, where he
remained ten years, engaged principally in hauling cordwood for the
furnace.  He then returned to Blair county and opened a hotel at Bob's creek,
near the foot of the mountain, which he conducted for two years.  Later he
removed to Centre county, where he erected a new building on the turnpike
running from Tyrone to Phillipsburg, and continued the hotel business for two
years at that place.  In 1854 he came to Gaysport, and for a long time
successfully operated a leading hotel there, known as the Kellerman hotel,
retiring from active business only a few years ago.  He resided at Gaysport,
superintending the two farms which he owned in Blair township.  He also owned
considerable valuable property at Gaysport, and accumulated a handsome
competency of this world's goods, notwithstanding he began life as a poor
teamster, and had to depend on his own efforts while making his way in the
world.  Among his early experiences were several trips made with a team
between Baltimore and Cincinnati before the era of the railroads.
      In 1842 Mr. Kellerman was married to Luvicy Hamilton, a daughter of
John Hamilton, of this county.  He was a member of the Lutheran church, and
in political belief was a stanch democrat.  He was all his life a hard
working, energetic, and enterprising man, and always acted on the principle
that whatever was worth doing at all was worth doing well.  As a consequence
he achieved financial success, and stood high in the estimation of his
neighbors and friends.

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