Daniel Keim
| Esteemed Citizen and
Veteran of the Civil War Found Dead Yesterday Morning A BRILLIANT WAR RECORD Nearly Life-Long Resident of Danville Dies at Age of Seventy-Four Mr. Keim was a veteran of the Civil War, and his record is one that any soldier might be proud to possess. He was a member of Company H, Ninety-Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted from Montour County, October 21, 1861 and served three years under Captain James Ramsey and Captain C.W. Eckman and under Colonels J.M. McCarter and J.M. Mark. He was assigned to Second Division, Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac. He participated in the following battles: Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, Salem Heights, Gettysburg, Rappahannock, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Knox Stevens, Charlestown, Opequan, Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek. He was wounded in the head but remained with the regiment until October 27, 1864, when his term of enlistment expired and he was honorably discharged. |
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| Member of Goodrich
Post Mr. Keim was a member of Goodrich Post No. 22 G.A.R., of this city and will be buried with military honors. He was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a good citizen, a man of temperate, industrious habits, who was highly esteemed in the community. He was born in Berks county but came to Danville with his parents when a child. Early in his life he was a locomotive engineer. For some twenty-five years he had charge of the gas house at the State Hospital for the Insane. Mr. Keim was aged seventy-four years. He was a widower, his wife dying seven years ago. He is survived by two sons and two daughters: William of Danville and Harry of Philadelphia; Mrs. C.F. Garinger of Sunbury, and Miss Martha Keim, a public school teacher of this city. John Keim, the brick manufacturer of this city, is a brother of the decedent.
Thank You Bryan!
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