
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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