Bio: Jonathan F. Keyes :Ashland, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Ashland
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886

Jonathan F. Keyes was born in Hancock, N. H., and in 1828, at the age of
seventeen years went to learn the paper-making business at Bennington
village, Vt. He remained there until 1848, when he sold the paper-mill he
then owned and removed to Holderness, bought a paper-mill and carried on the
business until 1872, and operated a store from 1848 to 1857. In 1872 he led
in the movement which resulted in the incorporation of the Ashland Savings
bank, of which Nathaniel Batchelder was the first president, J. F. Keye,
treasurer and secretary. He has held various town and county offices, among
which are postmaster, eight years, selectman, town treasurer, and county
commissioner five years. He married Mary W. Woods in Bennington, and had ten
children born to him, of whom five are living, viz; Mary E. (Mrs. Thomas P.
Cheney), Lucy A. (Mrs. R. R. D. Dearborn), Alice J. (Mrs. E. G. Clapp),
Fanny M., the present postmistress at Ashland, and Josephine W. (Mrs.
Blakslee), of Wisconsin. Two sons grew to manhood, of whom Capt. O. W. Keyes
, the elder, was killed in the battle of Chancellorville. His brother, Henry
F., was wounded in the same battle and had his arm amputated. He returned to
Holderness and at the time of his death, two years after, was postmaster.


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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman  rickman@worldpath.net
Date: January 6, 2001
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