Linda, Henry Keefer is mentioned twice in the Bent Wilson History of Whiteside County, once as a town Supervisor in Hopkins Township in 1874, and the second time when a G. G. Keefer who married Phoebe A. Harvey had a son named Henry Keefer...I suspect that this second Henry Keefer, was a Grandson or maybe a Nephew to the first one, but have not checked the family. In the 1860 census, Henry Keefer was a farmer in Hopkins Twp., age 28. Phoebe would have been 18 then, so actually G. G. Keefer would not have been Henry's son. In the Bastian History, it is mentioned that in 1924 the Keefer house at 412 First Avenue was donated to the YWCA in Sterling. But...didn't find anything that described the business that Henry Keefer operated. Bob