Judge Keep resigned the circuit judgeship because of failing health.

The evidence

• “Keep, a native of New York, who settled at Beloit in 1844, and who is remembered as a lawyer and judge of ability and a man of genial good nature and humor, was elected. Failing health obliged Judge Keep to resign his office in the spring of 1859, and he was succeeded by Mr. David Noggle, who was elected in April of that year, and served with distinction until 1864.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 211 / book p. 715

  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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