Chapter 18 of 20
The Twins
1889 – 1936
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Arthur and Kate Kiefer's twin sons, Carl and Herman Guy, were born on 24 April 1889.
Carl died in Kansas City on 21 April 1916 — three days before his twenty-seventh birthday — killed in a streetcar accident. He had no children.
Herman Guy graduated from the University of Michigan, became a metallurgical engineer, and rose to assistant to the president of the Timken Axle Company. On 6 October 1917 he married Florence Dumont Miller of Cincinnati. Their daughters were Mary Elizabeth — "Marybeth" — born in 1918, and Suzanne, born in 1925.
Herman Guy Kiefer died in Detroit on 9 February 1936, at forty-six, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery. In Jim Blackburn's family he is remembered as Herman Kiefer II — Jim's great-grandfather.
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Sources. The Kiefer Saga (1951), ch. IX and Genealogy; Michigan death certificate, 1936; Find a Grave. All sources →