Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys was born on 8. Jul. 1826 at Centre County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of
Oliver Hayden and
Mary Davidson. Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys married
Susan Crownover, daughter of
Hezekiah Covenhoven and
Elizabeth Newman, on 7. Oct. 1852. Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys and
Susan Crownover resided at at Kansas. Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys was shown in the census on 11. Jun. 1880 as a minister. In the census on 11. Jun. 1880 Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys was named W. S. H. Keyes.
Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys and
Susan Crownover appeared on the census of 11. Jun. 1880 at Parsons, Labette County, Kansas. Rev. William Spring Hubbell Keys died in 1892. Born July 8, 1826, Died age 66, 1892. The 2nd son of Oliver Hayden. (Family blood Line is actually Hayden and not Keys). Read biography on Oliver Hayden.
He was named after The Honorable William Spring Hubbell.
He is the second son of the widower Oliver Hayden from Connecticut and Pennsylvania, who had changed his name to Keys, during the War of 1812, and Oliver's 3rd wife Mary Davidson.
A letter from him at age 15, dated March 13, 1841 to Jemima Hayden Hubbell shows him in Alexandria , Pa .
References to him are in Aldrich's 1887 History of Clearfield County. Page 453: Reference to Rev. William S. H. Keys serving in Bradford Township. He was a United Brethren (now part of the United Methodist denomination) preacher licensed in 1844 (at age 18) and ordained in 1847( at age 21). Degrees of A.M. and D.D. of Otterbein University of Lebanon , Pa. He served in the Allegheny Conference (central and western mountains of Pennsylvania) before transferring in 1862 "to any other conference he may wish to join." He then joined the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and served with distinction in Lancaster, Dauphin and Lebanon Counties before leaving the ministry in 1878. He was married on Oct 7, 1852, to Susan F. Crownover from Miller Township, Stone Valley,Pa. She was born about 1832. He later became a minister in the Congregational Church either in Kansas City or St. Louis, Missouri and died in 1892 at age 66.
"The American Era" newspaper was established by a stock company in Tyrone, Blair Cty, Pa., about the year 1856, with William Spring Hubbell Keys as editor, afterwards next Benjamin Jones.
(Warrior's Mark Township) In 1860 he dedicated Bethesda Chapel, of the United Brethren Congregation, "a plain frame building, twenty eight by thirty eight feet, erected at a cost of eight hundred dollars. It was remodeled in 1877 and rededicated and the Sunday School had a membership of 35 members.
Family genealogy later records show him as; D.D. Minister in 1878 in Presbyterian or Congregational Church; St. Louis or Kansas City.
For a time while living in Parsons, Kansas, he spelled his name KEYES as there were 4 totally unrelated Keys families there and he stated they were "lifting" his mail.