J Keefer
GAWP5 lists the J Keefer imprint on ca 1825 bead plane.
1st tier candidates:
John Keefer b 1801, Adams Co., PA, cabinetmaker
John Keefer b 1807, Columbia Co., PA, carpenter
2nd tier candidates
Jacob Keefer b 1815, Northampton Co., PA, cabinetmaker
Jacob Keefer b 1791, Adams Co., PA, wagon maker
Jacob Keefer working 1842, Franklin Co., PA, millwright
J Keefer
1st tier candidates:
John Keefer b 1801, Adams Co., PA, 1850 census cabinetmaker
John Keefer b 1807, Columbia Co., PA, 1850 census carpenter
2nd tier candidates (dates and or trades are weaker)
Jacob Keefer b 1815, Northampton Co., PA, 1850 census cabinetmaker
Jacob Keefer b 1791, Adams Co., PA, 1850 census wagon maker
Jacob Keefer working 1842, Franklin Co., PA, millwright
John Keefer 1st tier
b 1801 (1799) - d 1853 in Germany, Adams Co., PA
census 1850, cabinetmaker
wife: Ida
children: Delilah, Abigail, Josiah, William, James, John, Martin, Adolphus, Circus
John Keefer, 1850 census, Germany, Adams Co., PA, cabinetmaker
John Keefer, d 1853, Adams Co., PA, cabinetmaker
John Keefer 1st tier
b 1807 Berks Co. - d 1874 Butler Co., PA
census 1850, Maine, Columbia Co., PA, carpenter
wife: Elizabeth
children: James, Lydia, Lewis, Elizabeth, Frances, George, Amanda
parents Abraham and Elizabeth
John Keefer, 1850 census Maine, Columbia Co., PA, carpenter
John Keefer, d 1874, Butler Co., PA
Jacob Keifer 2st tier
(strong trade but an estimated starting date of at least 10 years later than the plane)
b 1815
census 1850, Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton Co., PA, cabinetmaker
Genealogy Trails; "GEORGE W. CORELL b 1824, was ... reared at Upper Mount Bethel ... and in his eighteenth year went to Richmond in the adjoining township of Lower Mount Bethel, to learn the trade of cabinet-maker with Jacob Keefer. He remained there three years and three months learning the trade, and after arriving at age was employed by Mr. Keefer as a journeyman for nine months, and then worked a year at his trade and carpenter work for John Wagner, in Upper Mount Bethel Township."
wife: Julia Anne
children: none listed in the 1850 census
Jacob Keifer, 1850 census Lower Mount Bethel, PA, cabinetmaker
Jacob Keefer 2nd tier
Date fits but the trade is weak
b 1791
census 1850, Littlestown, Adams Co., PA, wagon maker
wife: Susannah
children: Aaron, James, Mary
Jacob Keifer, 1850 census, wagon maker
Jacob Keefer 2nd tier
Date fits but the trade might be weak
1842 tax list, Washington, Franklin Co., PA, millwright
