From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 765. City of La Crosse HERBERT E. KEELER, of the manufacturing firm of Norton & Keeler, successors of Hart, Norton & Co., is a native of Janesville, Onondaga Co., N. Y., born in 1845. His father, Elijah Keeler, removed to Connecticut in 1854. Mr. K. enlisted there in 1863, in the 27th Conn. V. I., Co. D; was in the service nine months, and then discharged on account of sickness. He came to Chicago in 1865, and engaged in the mercantile business till the spring of 1871. He was then Assistant Superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car Co., in Chicago five years, and left that position to come to La Crosse. Henry L. Norton, the senior member of the firm, is a resident of Chicago. He came to La Crosse in 1861, and started the present business and went to Chicago in 1865. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]