Keller, Emanuel, a Laitheran minister, was bom at Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 30, 1801. Blessed with pious and faithful parents, his thoughts and desires were early turned to the Christian ministry. His classical studies were pursued at Dickinson College, Carlisle, and the study of divinity imder the instruction of his pastor. Rev. Dr. Geo. Lochman. In 1826 he was inducted into the sacred office. He labored in the ministry succes- sively at Manchester, Md., and Jlechanicsburg, Pa. ; at the latter place he died, April 11,1837. In his death the Church mourned for one of her most usefid and de- voted ministers. Through his direct and personal in- struTientality a large ninnber of individuals were intro- duced into the ministry. (M. L. S.)
Keller, Ezra, D.D., an eminent minister of the Lutheran Church, was born in IMiddletown Valley, Md., June 12, 1812. Influenced by an unquenchable desire to preach the Gospel, the most formidable obstacles could not deter him from his purpose. While at Pennsylva- nia College (he graduated in 1835) he began the study of theology, and then entered the seminary at Gettys- burg. After his licensure to preach he devoted himself for a season to the arduous work of an itinerant mission- ary' for the Western States. In this work he was very successhd, especially as he preached in German as well as English. Subsequent!}' he was engaged in the pas- toral work, first at Taneytown, Md., and then at Hagers- town. His ministry at both places was very efficient. In 1844 he accepted the presidency of Wittenberg Col- lege, Springfield, Ohio, a literary and theological school called into existence to meet the wants of the Lutheran Church in the West, a position for which he was re- garded as admirably fitted. At the time of his death few men in the Church gave greater promise of exten- sive and permanent influence. Ezra Keller died Dec. 29, 1848. He received the degree of D.D. from Jeffer- son College in 1845. (:M. L. s!)
Keller, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg,
the son of Benjamin Keller, was born in Carlisle, Pa., \\m\ 19, 1819 ; he graduated at Pennsylvania College in 1838, and studied theology at the seminary in (icttys- burg. For a brief season he engaged in the w^rk of teaching at Waynesborough, Pa., but was licensed to preach in 1842; and having received a unanimous call to Trinity Church, Reading, Pa., he immediately entered upon the duties assigned him as an assistant to Rev. Dr. jVIiller. On the death of Dr. ISIillcr in 1850, St. James's Church was organized, of which he became pastor. This congregation, with others -in the vicinity, he continued to serve with a fidelity and a diligence that never fal- tered, till his death, March 18, 1864. (M. L. S.)
Keller (Cellaurs\ Jacob, a German Jesuit, was born at Siickingen, in Swabia, in 1568, and entered the Jesuitical order when only twenty years old. He gain- ed an unenviable notoriety by his controversies with
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Protestants ; most prominent among them is his public dispute with Jacob lleilbruimer. The Jesuits claim that Keller silenced the Protestant, but evangelical writers all deny the truth of this assertion. Be this as it may, Keller himself became a great favorite in his order, and was honored with a professorsliip of theology at Regens- burg, and later with the rectorate at jMiuiich. He was in great favor also with the duke of Bavaria. Klose (in Ilerzog, Real-Enci/Hop. vii, 508) accuses Keller of having contributed, both by pen and byword of mouth, towards the feeling of hatred which divided Protestants and Ko- manists just before the Thirty Years' War. Keller died Feb. 23,1031.
Kellerman, Georg, a celebrated Roman Catholic, was born Oct. 11, 177G, near Minister ((iermany), and was educated at the University of jMUnster and in the Roman Catholic seminary of that place. He was or- dained priest Aug. 2, 1801, but did not hold any priestly office until 1811, tilling up to this time the position of private tutor in the family of the celebrated count of Stolberg, and to Kellerman, no doubt, is due the strong Roman Catholic tendencies of the Stolberg family. In 1826 Kellerman assumed, besides his priestly duties, those of the professorship of New-Testament exegesis in the Roman Catholic theological school at IMiinster, which in 1830 he exchanged for those of pastoral theology. December 13, 1840 he was elected bishop of Minister, but he died shortly after, March 29, 1847. He published Predirjten (Miinster, 1830,3 vols. 8vo; 1831, and 1833) : — Gesch. d. A. und N. Test, (an abridgment of the large work of Overberg, and extensively used as a text-book in Roman Catholic schools) ; and edited several works of others. — Wetzer und Welte, Kirchen-Lex. xii, 041.
Kelley, Chas. H., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Logan Co., Ky., 1821 ; emigrated to Indiana in 1829 ; was converted in 1830 ; entered the Indiana As- bury University in 1845, but his health soon failed, and he left ; entered the Indiana Conference in 1840 ; Avas transferred to the Missouri Conference in 1849, and ap- pointed to St. Joseph station ; in 1850 was stationed at St. Louis ; in 1851 at Independence ; and in 1852 at Lagrange Mission. While on this work he was arrested, on Feb. 13, 1853, by a band of rufhans, on a pretended suspicion of his identity with Chas. F. Kelley, who had recently escaped from the state-prison at Fort Madison. Thith- er he was forced on a stormy winter night, and though the state officers instantly set him at liberty, the out- rages and exposure of the eighteen hours he was in the hands of the mob threw his feeble system into sickness, and he died shortly after, Sept. 17, 1853. He was a good man, an able and faithful preacher, and much lamented by his brethren.— J/wiu^f*- of Conf. v, 481. (G. L. T.)