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KEENEY, A. P., proprietor Madison House; he was born June 17, 1825, in Pulaski county, Kentucky; moved with parents May 18, 1827, to Montgomery, Ohio; here he was raised, and educated in subscription schools; his father died when he was but 11 years old, and he has paddled his own canoe since, as well as to help his widowed mother to raise her family of seven children; he came to this county May 22, 1862, and bought what was then known as the John Green farm; he then moved to Squaw Creek, after which he came to Indianola; has been in the hotel business since March 18, 1878; he has the reputation of keeping a first-class house, where farmers and other hungry mortals can always get a square meal; he was married June 19, 1851, to Miss Mary Bryant, a native of Indiana; they have nine children: Sylvia A., Clara E., Silas G., Nannie J., Susan A., Iven F., Gracie and Bell, living, and Laura O. and Iva L, deceased.