Class of 1885

Frank Royer Keefer was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1865 to a Presbyterian and military family. His father was Major John D. Keefer and his mother Caroline Royer Keefer; he could also boast a great-grandfather who fought with the Continental Army. He was educated at the Whitman Seminary in Walla Walla, Washington, where his father was stationed, and then at the Dickinson Preparatory School. He entered the College in 1881 and graduated with his class in 1885. While at the College, he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society.