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Title: Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : b history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Elliott, Ella Zerbey
Subjects: Genealogy -- Pennsylvania Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- History Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: Pottsville, Pa. : Pottsville, Pa. "Republican", Joseph Zerbey, proprietor
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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- claim descent fromthe same head. John Keim came to Oley Township in 1718, where his son,Nicholas Keim, was born April 2, 1719. Plis first wife wasMagdalena Hoch, twin sister of Maria Hoch, who marriedJohn Pott. He removed to Reading, 1755, and 1769 boughtthe old White Store, Penn Street, wdiere he carried on ageneral hardware business, and which was in possession ofthe family one hundred and thirty years. He was the firstjudge of the Berks County courts, from 1752 to 1760. He wasmarried twace, his second wife was Susanna, daughter of Dr.George De Benneville, for whom George De B. Keim, de-ceased, who located in Pottsville, was named. Mr. Keim\vas appointed general solicitor for the Reading Railway Com-pany, 1875, and in 1883 ^^^^ elected vice president. He died
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SCHUYLKILL COUNTY 141 The Early Settlers December 18, 1893, at Reading. He was married to ElizabethCocke Trezevant, the only child of Judge of the SupremeCourt, Trezevant, of South Carolina. Mr. Keim left one child, Julia. IMrs. George De B. Keimendowed the Pottsville Hospital with a perpetual annuity inmemoriam of her husband, and that institution is otherwisereceiving benefits through her generosity, at the present time. SCHUYLKILL COUNTY ERECTED FROM BERKS Schuylkill County was created in 1811 and contains anarea of eight hundred and forty square miles ; its population,1910, was 207,894. It contains thirty-one townships andtwenty-nine boroughs, with Pottsville, the county seat, a thirdclass city.^ In 1775 there were only eleven counties in Pennsylva-nia. In 1776 the resident taxables north of the Blue Moun-tains, who were also subject to military duty, numbered onehundred and fifty, and the whole population in what is nowSchuylkill County was six hundred. The entire area, except on

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