The daily Alaskan., 1922-12-02
DR. |. s. KELLER
 PASSES AWAY


 Louis Scott Keller. For nearly twenty-five years, men who have come in in the spring, and have gone out in the fall, have been cleered on their way as they passed through i Skagway by his genial smile, cor dial word and hearty hand-shake, He knew most of the men in the Northland from Nome to the Mac kenzie. and from Ketchikan to Point Barrow hs their personal names. He knew much of their lives-their SIC Cosses and failures. He had me: them In so many different places and un- der such varying conditions that they were not surprised to meet him all most anywhere.
 Doctor L. S. Keller was born in 1859, iu Saint Paul, Minnesota. and was educated in the public schools of that city, his father, J. M. Keller, being one of the influen- cial men of that city. He was one of five boys, three of whom are still living, the fourth having died four years to a day of Doctors passing away. He studied dentistry and be- gan the practice of his profession at the age of nineteen. He followed this work for two years, when an opportunity to engage in business with his brother led him to Grand Forks, N. D., where he and his brother had a lumber yard from 1880 to 1883. At the close of that period he returned to St. Paul, where he assumed the superintendenCy of the factory of c. E. Keller and Com pony. In the year, 1886, he retired from the lumber business and re- sumed the profession of dentistry He went to Duluth, Minn., and there opened an office. After some few years in Minnesota he left that city and settled in Great Falls. Montana. He remained in Great Falls but a few years, returning to St. Paul. There in the year 1891, he married Miss Martha B. Schafer.
 Shortly after his marriage, he and Mrs. Keller left St. Paul and settled in Pocatello, Idaho, where he built up a most successful practice. rWhile a resident of Idaho, he took an ac- tive part in state and city politics, being elected to the state senate on the SiIver-Republican ticket.
 In 1897. the great Klondike rush attracted his attention and the fall of that year saw him in Skagway, where he spent his first winter in the North. He returned to Idaho the next spring and with Mrs. Kel- Ter came back to Skagway where he has made his home ever since.
 Here he has practiced his profes- sion of dentistry, making frequent trips to Haines, Alaska, Atlin, B. C., Carcross and Whitehorse, Y. T. Up to 1915, he made regular trips of a professional character to Sitka, AL aska.
 He was connected with all the be- nevolent and social orders of the North. Dr. Keller was the first Grand Arctic Chief of the Arctic Brotherhood, and the charter of Camp Skagway, No. l., the mother camp of the fraternity, bears his sig nature. He was a charter member of Skagway Lodge, No. 431, Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks; member of White Pass Lodge, No. l13, F & A. M; Skagway Aerie, No. 25, Fraternal Order of Eagles; Woodmen of the World; The Mac cabees, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
 He served a number of years as councilman of Skagway and was ma yor a number of times, the last cleo ton to this office being last April. He was elected president of the Skag- way Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club a number of times and was largely instrumental in or ganizing the Christian Science Church of Skagway and securing the building on Main and Fourth av- enues, and refitting t for services. At the time of his death, he was engaged with his brother John M in the drug and curio business in Skagway.
 1 He leaves a wife, Martha B., and three sisters, Mrs. Percy Vittum, St. Paul, Mrs. Theodore S. CogsweI Los Angeles, Mrs. Edward W. D. Taylor, Orange Grove, California and three brothers, Charles E. and Herbert P, St. Paul, and John M 1 Keller, Skagway.
 Last June he left SkagWay In poor