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Gift of Dorry H. Swope, 2018.53.2469, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Robert Porter Keep
Gift of Dorry H. Swope, 2018.53.2469, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright

Robert Porter Keep

American, 1844 - 1904
BiographyRobert Porter Keep (1844-1904) was born in Farmington, Connecticut to Rev. John Robinson Keep (1810-1884) and Rebecca Porter Keep (1818-1893). He had three siblings: William A. Keep (1847-1867), Mary Keep (1849-1874), and Elizabeth Porter Keep Avery (1851-1910).

He married Margaret Vryling Haines in 1878, with whom he had three children: Robert Porter Keep, Jr. (1882-1967), Dorothea Keep (1884-), and Edward Haines Keep (1886-1893). He then married Elizabeth Vashti Hale in 1897.

He graduated from Yale College in 1865, and served as U.S. Consul to Greece, 1868-1870. He then served as Principal of Norwich Free Academy, 1885-1904.

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