Father: John Henry Keffer
Mother: Mary Williams
1850 - M.D. degree, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (from: VA)
05/02/1850 - Entered into a partnership in the practice of medicine with Dr. W. W. Magruder in Shenandoah Co., VA
05/02/1857 - Partnership with Dr. W. W. Magruder ended
07/19/1850 - Practiced medicine, District 58, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with parents)
11/04/1851 - Married, Sarah Catherine "Sallie" Richards, Shenandoah Co., VA (she died in 1906)
10/16/1860 - Practiced medicine, Strasburgh, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with wife, Sarah, and three children)
10/25/1866 - Died of cholera, Frederick Co., VA. Dr. Keffer contracted cholera from a patient
Note: No evidence was found that this physician served the Confederacy in a medical capacity.
Note: A Dr. William Henry Keffer applied for a Texas Confederate Pension in Oct. 1915. Obviously, that Dr. Keffer is not this Dr. William H. Keffer.
This biographical sketch was added by F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D., on February 15, 2015.
Mother: Mary Williams
1850 - M.D. degree, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (from: VA)
05/02/1850 - Entered into a partnership in the practice of medicine with Dr. W. W. Magruder in Shenandoah Co., VA
05/02/1857 - Partnership with Dr. W. W. Magruder ended
07/19/1850 - Practiced medicine, District 58, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with parents)
11/04/1851 - Married, Sarah Catherine "Sallie" Richards, Shenandoah Co., VA (she died in 1906)
10/16/1860 - Practiced medicine, Strasburgh, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with wife, Sarah, and three children)
10/25/1866 - Died of cholera, Frederick Co., VA. Dr. Keffer contracted cholera from a patient
Note: No evidence was found that this physician served the Confederacy in a medical capacity.
Note: A Dr. William Henry Keffer applied for a Texas Confederate Pension in Oct. 1915. Obviously, that Dr. Keffer is not this Dr. William H. Keffer.
This biographical sketch was added by F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D., on February 15, 2015.
Father: John Henry Keffer
Mother: Mary Williams
1850 - M.D. degree, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (from: VA)
05/02/1850 - Entered into a partnership in the practice of medicine with Dr. W. W. Magruder in Shenandoah Co., VA
05/02/1857 - Partnership with Dr. W. W. Magruder ended
07/19/1850 - Practiced medicine, District 58, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with parents)
11/04/1851 - Married, Sarah Catherine "Sallie" Richards, Shenandoah Co., VA (she died in 1906)
10/16/1860 - Practiced medicine, Strasburgh, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with wife, Sarah, and three children)
10/25/1866 - Died of cholera, Frederick Co., VA. Dr. Keffer contracted cholera from a patient
Note: No evidence was found that this physician served the Confederacy in a medical capacity.
Note: A Dr. William Henry Keffer applied for a Texas Confederate Pension in Oct. 1915. Obviously, that Dr. Keffer is not this Dr. William H. Keffer.
This biographical sketch was added by F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D., on February 15, 2015.
Mother: Mary Williams
1850 - M.D. degree, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (from: VA)
05/02/1850 - Entered into a partnership in the practice of medicine with Dr. W. W. Magruder in Shenandoah Co., VA
05/02/1857 - Partnership with Dr. W. W. Magruder ended
07/19/1850 - Practiced medicine, District 58, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with parents)
11/04/1851 - Married, Sarah Catherine "Sallie" Richards, Shenandoah Co., VA (she died in 1906)
10/16/1860 - Practiced medicine, Strasburgh, Shenandoah Co., VA (living with wife, Sarah, and three children)
10/25/1866 - Died of cholera, Frederick Co., VA. Dr. Keffer contracted cholera from a patient
Note: No evidence was found that this physician served the Confederacy in a medical capacity.
Note: A Dr. William Henry Keffer applied for a Texas Confederate Pension in Oct. 1915. Obviously, that Dr. Keffer is not this Dr. William H. Keffer.
This biographical sketch was added by F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D., on February 15, 2015.
Inscription
DR. WM. H. KEFFER
BORN
Mar 17, 1829
DIED
Oct. 25, 1866
Dearest Father thou hast left us
Here thy loss we deeply feel
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