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WILLIAM KEOWN, hotel-keeper, post office Perrysville, was born Feb. 18, 1840, in Allegheny City, a son of John and Susan (Good) Keown. John was born in Ireland in 1800, and died in 1870. He came to America at the age of nineteen years, was a brick manufacturer, and became quite a distinguished man in his day; was the first councilman in Allegheny City, and also held offices on the educational board. He owned a great deal of property in the Fourth ward, and was one of the early citizens there. He removed to Ross township in 1857, and kept the old Buck tavern, formerly conducted by the maternal grandfather of our subject, Mr. Good. The tavern was destroyed by fire Sept. 10, 1856, and rebuilt by John Keown. The hotel is probably the oldest in this county. He was postmaster during Buchanan’s administration. John Keown married Susan E., daughter of Balthazar Good, and she died in 1876, aged seventy-one years, the mother of seven children: Margaret J., John, William, Susan M., Eleanor, Elizabeth A. and Thomas F. D. (deceased). The subject of these lines has succeeded to the proprietorship of the hotel, and has been the postmaster under Cleveland’s administration. He is a democrat, as was his father before him, and has filled several township offices.