Keeler, Daniel Mandeville

Daniel Mandeville Keeler (1900-1990) was a local Mormon leader in Utah.

Daniel Mandeville Keeler, son of Joseph Brigham and Martha Alice Fairbanks Keeler, was born in Provo, Utah, October 28, 1900. He began his schooling in 1905, attending Brigham Young University from his entrance to kindergarten to his exit from college. After he completed his education, Keeler moved to Carbon County, Utah, with his wife, Virginia Christensen. In Standardville, Keeler was given Sunday School assignments and priesthood positions in his Church ward. He later became a member of the branch presidency, later becoming president of the branch his family lived in. He also served in various stake and local activities. His wife, also active in social and church obligations, headed the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association (YWMIA). After living in Standardville for twenty years, Keeler became an employee of the United States Steel Corporation at Geneva, Utah, where he worked for twenty-three years. During this time his children, as well as their mother, finished their college work. Throughout his life, Daniel Keeler and his wife, Virginia, dedicated much of their time to genealogical and historical research, building on the information their parents had already discovered. Keeler died July 17, 1990.

From the guide to the Daniel Mandeville Keeler papers, 1900-1990, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)