Keator, John F. (John Frisbee), 1850-1910

John Frisbee Keator (1850-1910) was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and attended Yale University, from which he graduated in 1877. Keator attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduated in 1879. He lived in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he practiced law. Keator represented the 21st District in the Pennsylvania Assembly from 1897-1900. He was a Freemason and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Keator married Anna Walter Sweatman (1860-1942), also a practicing attorney, in 1885. The couple had 5 children.

Bibliography:

Keator, Alfred Decker. Three Centuries of the Keator Family in America . New York: American Historical Company, 1955.

From the guide to the John F. Keator family papers, 1872-circa 1940s, (Germantown Historical Society)