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KEATLEY, THOMAS. Was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, April 19, 1826. When eighteen years of age he went
to Houston, Texas, where he followed surveying for about one and a half years. In 1846 he volunteered and served
in the war with Mexico eight months, after which he returned to Houston and worked in a cabinet shop and saw mill
for two years. He then went to St. Louis, where he remained until the spring of 1850, when he crossed the plains
to California. After spending about one year in Sacramento he went to the southern mines, and after about six months
went to Trinity County. Here he followed mining until the fall of 1852, when he made a trip through Lake County
to San Francisco, where he remained, being engaged in different business, until 1859, when he returned to St. Louis.
Here he remained until 1861, when he again came to San Francisco, where he engaged in contracting and building
until 1873, at which time he went to Cloverdale, Sonoma County, where he spent one year. He then came to Lake County
and settled at Upper Lake, where he owns and conducts the Upper Lake planing and grist mill. Mr. Keatley married,
June 14, 1860, Miss Amelia Gibson, a native of Missouri. They have three children: William T., Fannie P. and Ella
F.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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