Otho was a son of Robert G. H. Kean and Adelaide Navarro de Maret Prescott. He attended the Virginia Military Institute and graduated from the United States Military Academy, Class of 1905.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1 September 1940, Sunday 
Capt. Otho V. Kean
Funeral services for Capt. Otho V. Kean, chief inspector and senior engineer of the Philadelphia Ordnance District, who died Friday, will be held at 2 P. M. today in the Church of the Redeemer. Bryn Mawr. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Capt. Kean, who lived in Mermont Plaza, Bryn Mawr, had served in his post in the Ordnance Department here since June 1, 1939. He was sent here from Washington, where he had been doing general engineering work for the Army, to assist in the work incident to the general preparedness program.
He was 59, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, class of 1905. He retired from the Army with the rank of captain in 1913 after having served from 1909 to 1912 as associate professor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point. For some years after his retirement he was connected with a silver company in Providence, R. I.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Duell Kean; two sons, Rev. Charles D., of Springfield, Mass., who will conduct the funeral services, and John V., a student at Harvard Law School; two daughters, Mrs. Charles F. W. Cooper, of Hamilton, Bermuda, and Mrs. Alfred Kelsey, of Bryn Mawr; and a brother. Gen. J. R. Kean, U. S. Army Medical Corps, retired.
∼TMSI [6370]: M1223 — 6G-Grandson of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1 September 1940, Sunday 
Capt. Otho V. Kean
Funeral services for Capt. Otho V. Kean, chief inspector and senior engineer of the Philadelphia Ordnance District, who died Friday, will be held at 2 P. M. today in the Church of the Redeemer. Bryn Mawr. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Capt. Kean, who lived in Mermont Plaza, Bryn Mawr, had served in his post in the Ordnance Department here since June 1, 1939. He was sent here from Washington, where he had been doing general engineering work for the Army, to assist in the work incident to the general preparedness program.
He was 59, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, class of 1905. He retired from the Army with the rank of captain in 1913 after having served from 1909 to 1912 as associate professor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point. For some years after his retirement he was connected with a silver company in Providence, R. I.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Duell Kean; two sons, Rev. Charles D., of Springfield, Mass., who will conduct the funeral services, and John V., a student at Harvard Law School; two daughters, Mrs. Charles F. W. Cooper, of Hamilton, Bermuda, and Mrs. Alfred Kelsey, of Bryn Mawr; and a brother. Gen. J. R. Kean, U. S. Army Medical Corps, retired.
∼TMSI [6370]: M1223 — 6G-Grandson of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
Otho was a son of Robert G. H. Kean and Adelaide Navarro de Maret Prescott. He attended the Virginia Military Institute and graduated from the United States Military Academy, Class of 1905.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1 September 1940, Sunday 
Capt. Otho V. Kean
Funeral services for Capt. Otho V. Kean, chief inspector and senior engineer of the Philadelphia Ordnance District, who died Friday, will be held at 2 P. M. today in the Church of the Redeemer. Bryn Mawr. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Capt. Kean, who lived in Mermont Plaza, Bryn Mawr, had served in his post in the Ordnance Department here since June 1, 1939. He was sent here from Washington, where he had been doing general engineering work for the Army, to assist in the work incident to the general preparedness program.
He was 59, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, class of 1905. He retired from the Army with the rank of captain in 1913 after having served from 1909 to 1912 as associate professor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point. For some years after his retirement he was connected with a silver company in Providence, R. I.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Duell Kean; two sons, Rev. Charles D., of Springfield, Mass., who will conduct the funeral services, and John V., a student at Harvard Law School; two daughters, Mrs. Charles F. W. Cooper, of Hamilton, Bermuda, and Mrs. Alfred Kelsey, of Bryn Mawr; and a brother. Gen. J. R. Kean, U. S. Army Medical Corps, retired.
∼TMSI [6370]: M1223 — 6G-Grandson of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1 September 1940, Sunday 
Capt. Otho V. Kean
Funeral services for Capt. Otho V. Kean, chief inspector and senior engineer of the Philadelphia Ordnance District, who died Friday, will be held at 2 P. M. today in the Church of the Redeemer. Bryn Mawr. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Capt. Kean, who lived in Mermont Plaza, Bryn Mawr, had served in his post in the Ordnance Department here since June 1, 1939. He was sent here from Washington, where he had been doing general engineering work for the Army, to assist in the work incident to the general preparedness program.
He was 59, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, class of 1905. He retired from the Army with the rank of captain in 1913 after having served from 1909 to 1912 as associate professor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point. For some years after his retirement he was connected with a silver company in Providence, R. I.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Duell Kean; two sons, Rev. Charles D., of Springfield, Mass., who will conduct the funeral services, and John V., a student at Harvard Law School; two daughters, Mrs. Charles F. W. Cooper, of Hamilton, Bermuda, and Mrs. Alfred Kelsey, of Bryn Mawr; and a brother. Gen. J. R. Kean, U. S. Army Medical Corps, retired.
∼TMSI [6370]: M1223 — 6G-Grandson of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
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OTHO VAUGHAN KEEN
CAPTAIN
UNITED STATES ARMY
1881 — 1940
HIS WIFE
MARY DUELL KEAN
1885 — 1956
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