Maurice Keyser (b. September 25, 1863, d. Aft. 1905)
Maurice Keyser (son of Joseph Keyser and Maria Garber) was born September 25, 1863 in Chillisquaque Township, Noethumberland County, Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1905 in Chillisquaque Township, Noethumberland County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Vandling.
Notes for Maurice Keyser: Maurice, a truck farmer of West Chillisquaque Township, Northumberland County has a small but valuable track in that township and attends the Sunbury markets. He was born Sept. 25, 1863 in Chillisquaque Township, and comes of a family which has been settled in America since early Colonial times. Dirck Keyser the founder of the family in this country, was born in 1635 in Amsterdam, Holland, son of Gerretts Keyser, who married Cornella, daughter of Tobias Govertsz Van de Wyngant, a Mennonite minister. Dirck Keyser landed at Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1688, and settled in Germantown where he was a pioneer manufacturer. He died there November 30, 1714. His descendants are scattered all over these United States.
Maurice Keyser attended the public schools of his native township and remained with his father until he was eighteen years old, since then he has been engaged in trucking on his own account. In 1905 he bought his present farm in West Chillisquaque township, twenty-two acres of fine land especially adapted to truck farming, which he has since followed most successfully, finding a steady demand for his products in the Sunbury markets. he is an industrious worker and a good business man, and enjoys the confidence of his fellow citizens. In 1904 he was elected school director and has since served continuously in that office, for two years he was secretary of the board. He is a Republican in his political views. Mr. Keyser married Mary Vandling, daughter of Peter Vandling, and they have the following children: Lucy, a graduate of Montandon High School, who has been teaching in the Chillisquaque school since 1906; Laura Keyser Clifford who is a member of the class of 1913 at Bucknell College, Lewisburg Pennsylvania; Lester; and Elizabeth. The family are Lutherans in religious connection.
( The preceding short story is from Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy. )
Maurice Keyser (b. September 25, 1863, d. Aft. 1905)
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