Legislator Details
Charles Van Keuren portrait from Nimmo p.118
Vital Records Information:
Marital Information:
single when elected to the legislature; married Mocco [or Macco] Eloise Teeple, dau. of George and Hattie (Sigler) Teeple, 6/15/1905, in Pinkney; children: Charles [died as infant]; married Florence Jackson about 1916; children: Betty (Hallock); total children: 2
Number of Children: 2
Background
Education:
graduated from Howell High School, 1896; graduated from University of Michigan, 1902
Biographical Sketch:
Of Dutch ancestry. Son of James Irvin and Fanny Ann (Morgan) Keuren. His family moved to Howell in 1888. He enter university in 1897 after traveling for one year with a Toledo stationery house. He was engaged in newspaper work in Toledo, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Grand Rapids and New York City but return to Michigan after a few years. In 1899, he was appointed special commissioner to the Paris Exposition by the Ohio Centennial Exposition Company. For 1 year after graduation, he was employed as traveling advertising manager for the Oaks, a weekly magazine of Chicago, and the next year travelled for Rand, McNally & Co., publishers of Chicago, continuing with them until September, 1904. From 1905-16 he was in the insurance business in Lansing. From 1916-18, he was president of a stock brokerage firm in Detroit and stayed in the investment field until 1926. Member of the Masons. He was a special writer for the Wall Street Journal and was director of public relations for the Nash Kelvinator Corp. He return brokerage in 1928 and entered the oil business in 1933. He was president of the Michigan Independent's Petroleum Association at the time of his death.
Notable Facts:
In the spring, of 1896, he won the state high school oratorical championship.