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FRANK ALLEN KEITH
KEITH, FRANK ALLEN, Mining, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in the year 1870, at Detroit, Michigan, the son of John Wallace Keith and Fannie Louis (Allen) Keith. He married Susan Banwell in 1896, at Chicago, Illinois, and they have two children, Frank Allen, Jr., and John Banwell Keith.
Mr. Keith was educated in the public schools of Detroit and St. Paul’s Academy, of that city.
Immediately after concluding his studies he went West and located in Colorado, where he became surveyor for the Iron Silver Mining Company, at Leadville. This was the beginning of a life that has been spent in mining and engineering work in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. After leaving the Leadville company, he held successively the following positions: Engineer of the Eureka Hill Mining Company at Tintic, Utah; ore purchaser, for the Arkansas Valley Smelting Company, at Leadville; assistant manager, Union Smelting Company at Leadville; engineer, De Lamar Nevada Mines Company, in Nevada; general superintendent of the Bamberger De Lamar Mines Company; engineer, Guggenheim Exploration Company; general manager, Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada. These firms are among the most important in the mining industry of America and the offices he occupied have been among the most responsible. He remained in Nevada until 1908, when he moved to San Francisco, where he opened offices as a general mining engineer. After two years he moved to Los Angeles.
Mr. Keith is one of the leaders in his profession and is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
He is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, California and Sierra Madre Clubs of Los Angeles and the Rocky Mountain Club of New York.
Transcribed 5-26-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 286, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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