Mary S. Keeler
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Mary S. Keeler (b. Vaughn) (1830-1923) was born and died in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. In the 1840s she attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, and taught in the district schools in Wyalusing and Wilmot Townships. In 1856 she married John G. Keeler in Wyalusing. He was a Civil War veteran, serving for Company G, 13th Pennsylvania Militia and then Company C, 35th Pennsylvania Militia, mustering out as a quartermaster sergeant. In 1860 he opened and was the proprietor of Keeler's Drug Store, and later, together with his two sons, he operated Keeler Brothers and Co., a printing and publishing company, and was the editor of the Wyalusing Rocket newspaper. Keeler was a member of the Wyalusing Presbyterian church and taught in its Sunday school for many years. She was also a member of the Machwihilusing chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Federated Fortnightly Club of Women of Wyalusing. One of Keeler's sisters was Orrilla W. Day (b. Vaughn), a student of Mary Baker Eddy who was important in the establishment of Christian Science in Chicago, Illinois. In 1886 Keeler wrote to Eddy from the home of her daughter, Mary E. "Lizzie" Wagner (b. Keeler) in Wysox, Pennsylvania, to report that Day was giving her daughter absent Christian Science treatment and to seek assistance with the case.

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Mary S. Keeler
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Mary S. Keeler (b. Vaughn) (1830-1923) was born and died in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. In the 1840s she attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, and taught in the district schools in Wyalusing and Wilmot Townships. In 1856 she married John G. Keeler in Wyalusing. He was a Civil War veteran, serving for Company G, 13th Pennsylvania Militia and then Company C, 35th Pennsylvania Militia, mustering out as a quartermaster sergeant. In 1860 he opened and was the proprietor of Keeler's Drug Store, and later, together with his two sons, he operated Keeler Brothers and Co., a printing and publishing company, and was the editor of the Wyalusing Rocket newspaper. Keeler was a member of the Wyalusing Presbyterian church and taught in its Sunday school for many years. She was also a member of the Machwihilusing chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Federated Fortnightly Club of Women of Wyalusing. One of Keeler's sisters was Orrilla W. Day (b. Vaughn), a student of Mary Baker Eddy who was important in the establishment of Christian Science in Chicago, Illinois. In 1886 Keeler wrote to Eddy from the home of her daughter, Mary E. "Lizzie" Wagner (b. Keeler) in Wysox, Pennsylvania, to report that Day was giving her daughter absent Christian Science treatment and to seek assistance with the case.

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