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Joseph Henry Keagle, 1857-1928

Born: May 21, 1857, Rock Run Township, Illinois.
Died: November 10, 1928, Naperville, Illinois.
Buried: Phillips Cemetery, Rockton, Illinois.

Son of William Harrison Keagle and Hannah E. Springer, Keagle was a teacher and minister. By 1884, the record shows him conducting funerals in Naperville. In 1888, he married Rachel G. Graham (1864-1952), with whom he had eight children. In 1898, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress from the Ninth District of Illinois as a Prohibitionist candidate. As of 1919, Keagle was pastor of Grace United Evangelical Church in Naperville.

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