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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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FURMAN KEPLER, son of Reuben and Catherine (Wildermuth) Kepler, was born in Lower Pottsgrove township, December 3, 1858. Reuben Kepler (father) was the son of John S. Kepler, the latter being a cabinet maker in early life. He removed to Somerset county, where he died. He followed the occupation of a farmer, and lived in Lower Pottsgrove township.
Furman Kepler attended the schools of the neighborhood until he had arrived at the age of seventeen years. He then secured a teacher’s certificate, and taught school for six years in Lower Pottsgrove township, and in New Hanover, the adjoining township. He then engaged in farming upon the homestead where he now resides. He married Annie J. Fegely, daughter of Solomon and Lydia (Bickel) Fegely, also of Lower Pottsgrove, where the parents were engaged in farming. Mr. Fegely was a Democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Furman Kepler have one child, Walter Emerson, unmarried, and residing with his parents. He is a graduate of the Hill school at Pottstown and at present is a student at the University of Pennsylvania.Mr. Kepler purchased the farm on which he resides in the spring of 1894. He has made many improvements upon it, making additions to the buildings, and greatly increasing the fertility of the land by judicious fertilizing. Mr. Kepler is an influential man in his neighborhood, and has filled the position of school director for about eighteen years. He is a prominent member of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, and also of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, of the Royal Arcanum, and of other organizations of the kind. In religious faith he is a Lutheran.
A copper mine has recently been located on the property owned by Mr. Kepler, and great expectations are being entertained as to the value of its products.
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