William Henry Clay Keen (1860-1921) was a state legislator and hosiery manufacturer in Lykens. He died on January 30, 1921, in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
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From the West Schuylkill Herald, February 4, 1921:
SUDDEN DEATH OF W. H. CLAY KEEN
W. H. Clay Keen, aged 60 years, one of the best known citizens of the upper end of Dauphin County, died very suddenly Sunday evening at his home at Wiconisco after returning home with his wife from services in the Methodist church, a few squares from his home. His death was attributed to heart failure. He was a man of robust health and except for a slight cold contracted during the holidays from which he had almost recovered, was apparently in the best of physical condition prior to his death.
Mr. Keen was born at Wiconisco and resided there all his life. He was every inch a man and his friendship and esteem were sought by all who knew him. He was a faithful member of the Methodist Church and was the treasurer of the Wiconisco at the time of his death. He was a member of the firm of Keen and Kniley Knitting Mills, a member of the board of directors and secretary of the Williams Valley Bank, Williamstown, a past master, trustee and chaplain of Ashlar Lodge F. & A. M. The latter had charge of the funeral which took place at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon from his late home and was one of the largest ever held at Wiconisco.
His widow, two sons, E. Leroy Keen of Wiconisco, who served in the world war as a captain overseas and is now an assistant district attorney of Dauphin County, the other a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and one daughter, a teacher in the public schools of Wiconisco.
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From the Harrisburg Telegraph, February 3, 1921:
WAS LEGISLATOR AT TIME OF FIRE
Funeral Services Held at Wiconisco Yesterday For Late W. H. Clay Keen
Wiconisco, Pennsylvania, February 3 [1921] — Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at his late home in Pottsville Street for W. H. Clay Keen, one of the most prominent of the Lykens Valley businessmen, who died suddenly on Sunday evening of heart failure, aged 60 years. For twenty-two years he had been a member of the firm of Keen and Kniley, hosiery manufacturers of Lykens. For thirty-five years he had been superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School. Mr. Keen was a member of the Legislature when the old Capitol Building burned.
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