Sacramento County Biographies

W. B. G. KELLER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 286-287.
 
	Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 7 and 8, Sacramento Savings Bank 
Building. cor. 5th and J streets; was born at Peoria, Illinois, February 28, 
1846; came across the plains in 1852, with his parents, and he has resided here 
ever since; he was married to Miss Sallie Burnett, in August, 1864, by whom he 
had two children: Frank L., born May 31, 1865, and Joseph C., born March 7, 
1867, of whom Joseph C. died in infancy. Mrs. Keller died of consumption, March 
16th, 1868. Mr. Keller was again married to Miss Maggie Fritsch his present 
wife, June 1, 1871, who bore him three boys and one girl: Wm. C., born March 4, 
1872; Howard H., born March 13, 1874; L. Burnett, born July 18, 1875, and Alice 
Maud, born June 23, 1879. The child Howard H., died in infancy. Mr. Keller 
studied law in the late firm of Coffroth & Spaulding. Was admitted to practice 
by the Supreme Court, April 6, 1868. He has taken considerable interest in 
politics and was nominated by the Workingmen's and New Constitution parties in 
1879, as a member of the State Board of Equalization, but was defeated by the 
Republican nominee by a small plurality, he himself beating the Democratic 
nominee in the 2nd Congressional District, 7,553 votes. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.