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George deBenneville Keim
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| Name | George deBenneville Keim |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenbahnbeamter |
| Anmerkungen | 1884 - 1891 Präsident der "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company". |
| Quellenangaben | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 242] |
| Hinweise | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 242]: Portrait |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1874 |
de Benneville Keim zieht nach Philadelphia in Verbindung mit der "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company" und der "Coal and Iron Company" |
| Jan. 1884 |
de Benneville Keim wird Präsident sowohl der der "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company" als auch der "Coal and Iron Company" |
| 1888 |
Nach Ende der Konkursverwaltung wird de Benneville Keim Direktor der Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company und Präsident der "Coal and Iron Company" |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Biographie |
| TEXT | George de Benneville Keim, ex-President Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, was born in Reading, the eldest son of George M. Keim and Julia C. Mayer his wife, and was named after his grandfather, General George deB. Keim. He received a preliminary education in the local schools, and passed one term in the Georgetown College, while his father was a member of Congress from Bucks. He was admitted to the Sophomore Class, Dickinson College, in 1846, graduating in 1849. He then took up the study of chemistry in the laboratory of Dr. Charles M. Wetherill, with special reference to the analysis of minerals. In 1850, returning to Reading, he read law in the office of Charles Davis, Esq., and was admitted to practice in April, 1852. In 1855 Mr. Keim located at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, where there had begun very great activity in the development of coal lands. Here he was retained by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and was placed in very close relations to their vast undertakings, purchasing many thousand acres of land and numerous collieries, paying many millions of dollars therefor, and though the work included numerous and difficult complications, it was well done and not an acre of the vast property acquired has ever been lost or impaired by reason of any defects in the title passed upon by him. In the year 1874 Mr. Keim removed to Philadelphia in connection with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and Coal and Iron Company. He has filled the offices of General Auditor, Vice-President, President pro tem, and Receiver pro tem. In January, 1884, he was made President of both Companies, and when they passed again into a receivership, he was appointed by the Circuit Court of the United States to that position, in conjunction with Mr. Edward M. Lewis and Mr. Stephen A. Caldwell, two well known gentlemen of high personal and business character. This receivership terminated in January, 1888. Under this receivership the gross earnings of the companies were about $150.000.000, and the requirements of the management of the business under all the difficult surroundings and circumstances were very laborious and constant. Upon the companies resuming management in 1888, Mr. Keim was made a Director in the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and President of the Coal and Iron Company; the latter position he resigned in January, 1891, believing that the interest of the Railroad Company and the Coal and Iron Company would be promoted by placing the management in one and the same person — Mr. A. A. McLeod, President of the Railroad Company. He has long been connected with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and one of its Vice-Presidents. By appointment of the Governor of the Commonwealth he served with Simon Cameron and the Hon. Daniel Ermentrout on the Commission which selected General Peter Muhlenberg and Robert Fulton as subjects for the statues to be presented by the State to be placed in the Capitol at Washington. Mr. Keim married Elizabeth Cooke Trezevant, only daughter of Louis Creiger Trezevant, M. D., of South Carolina, and of his wife Elizabeth Marion, daughter of Bullcr Cook, Esq. Mr. Keim's family consists of his wife and daughters, Julia Mayer Keim and Susan Douglass Keim. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 241] |
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