MAJOR HORACE C. KEIFER, member of the well-known law firm of KEIFER and KEIFER, of Springfield, Ohio and one of Springfield's leading and influential citizens, was born in this city, November 14, 1867, son of Hon. J. Warren KEIFER and Eliza STOUT KEIFER.
Mr. KEIFER was reared in his native city of Springfield and received his literary training in Wittenberg College and at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He subsequently took up the study of law and was graduated in 1892 from the Cincinnati Law School. Since completing his education, with the exception of about a year spent in military service in the Spanish American War, Mr. KEIFER has been a member of the law firm of KEIFER and KEIFER, the other members of which are his father, J. Warren KEIFER. In May 1898, he was appointed captain of the Third United States Volunteer Engineers by President McKinley, was stationed successively at Miami and Jacksonville, Florida and Savannah, Georgia and saw service in Cuba from December 1898, until April 1899. He was present at the evacuation of Havana by the Spanish, January 1, 1899. He served on the staff of his father, General J. Warren KEIFER and was mustered out April 1899. He had been Major of the Third Ohio National Guards since November 1904.
Mr. KEIFER was married in April 1902, to Mary WILSON, a daughter of T. B. WILSON, of Madison County, Ohio.
source: Rockel, Wm. "20th Century History of Clark County, Ohio and Representative Citizens." MN State Hist. Library
Sept 26, 1999