NameHenry Wilder Keyes
Birth23 Mar 1862, Newbury, Orange, VT.
Death1938, North Haverhill, New Hampshire.
BurialOxbow Cemetery, Newbury, Vermont.
Misc. Notes
Death Notice.
Ex-Senator Keyes dies at Age of 76.
North Haverhill, N.H., June 20--(AP)--Henry W. Keyes, former war governor of New
Hampshire and United States Senator for three terms, died Sunday at his farm estate
here after an illness of five weeks. he was 76 year old. The son of wealthy parents, Keyes, a native of Newbury, Vt., selected farming as his life work after he graduated from Harvard College in 1887. He served in the New Hampshire house of representatives and senate and as chairman of the state excise commission before being elected governor in 1917. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1918, where he remained until he retired last year. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes, writer and lecturer, and three sons, Henry W., and Francis, both of Boston, and John P., of New York.
Henry W. Keyes is a 2nd Cousin twice removed from Edward Dale Ellis.
Frances Parkinson Keyes, see autobiography in area of pictures.
Keyes, Henry Wilder (1863-1938) -- also known as Henry W. Keyes -- of Haverhill, Grafton County, N.H. Born in Newbury, Orange County, Vt., May 23, 1863. Lawyer; farmer; banker; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1891-95, 1915-17; member of New Hampshire state senate 2nd District, 1903-04; Governor of New Hampshire, 1917-19; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1919-37. Episcopalian. Died in North Haverhill, Grafton County, N.H. , June 19, 1938. Interment at Oxbow Cemetery, Newbury, Vt.