Judge Keep died at age forty-eight.

The evidence

• “He was never a candidate for any political office. Judge Keep died on March 2, 1861, aged forty-eight years. Although a comparatively young man.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 344 / book p. 840

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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