California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


KEATLEY, THOMAS. Was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, April 19, 1826. When eighteen years of age 
he went to Houston, Texas, where he followed surveying for about one and a half years. In 1846 he 
volunteered and served in the war with Mexico eight months, after which he returned to Houston and 
worked in a cabinet shop and saw-mill for two years. He then went to St. Louis, where he remained 
until the spring of 1850, when he crossed the plains to California. After spending about one year in 
Sacramento he went to the southern mines, and after about six months went to Trinity County. Here 
he followed mining until the fall of 1852, when he made a trip through Lake County to San Francisco, 
where he remained, being engaged in different business, until 1859, when he returned to St. Louis. 
Here he remained until 1861, when he again came to San Francisco, where he engaged in contracting 
and building until 1873, at which time he went to Cloverdale, Sonoma County, where he spent one 
year. He then came to Lake County and settled at Upper Lake, where he owns and conducts the 
Upper Lake planing and grist mill. Mr. Keatley married, June 14, 1860, Miss Amelia Gibson, a native of 
Missouri. They have three children : William T., Fannie P. and Ella F.