George Adam Keller (1821-1900)

Authors

Rick Leech

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Description

George Adam Keller was born into a family of planters in northwest Chatham County in 1821 and continued the tra­dition, cultivating crops, especially rice, and livestock, all the while building up his land holdings, such as with the purchase of Drakies plantation in 1871, He probably bought Coldbrook plantation in 1852 and was active in the Democratic Party, the County Road Commissioners, and served as clerk of the North Salem Baptist Church for almost 50 years. He had at least 17 children by his first wife Mar­tha and subsequently Mary, and died at Coldbrook in 1900, a well-respected gentleman planter.

Publication Date

Fall 1986

Recommended Citation

Leech, Rick, "George Adam Keller (1821-1900)" (1986). Savannah Biographies. 196.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/196