Judge William B. Keys

Was born in Calloway County, Kentucky, 03-May-1849. His parents were Isaac and Mildred M. (Curd) Keys. His father was a native of Hart County, Kentucky, and removed to Calloway County about 1828 with his father John Keys, who, was a Virginian by birth. He was elected sheriff of Calloway in 1865, was re-eleced to a second term, but was accidentally shot 27-August 1866. Judge William B. Keys maternal grandfather , Edmond Curd, was one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky, and kept the land office at Wadesborough, Calloway County. William was brought up on a farm, and attended the common schools until nineteen years of age, when he gave his attention to farming and teaching school. In 1876 he was elected sheriff of Calloway County, and served two terms, during this time he improved every opportunity of studying law, which qualifed him for the office of county judge. A position to which he was elected in 1882. The judge is a man of his own making, rising from obscurity to positions of social and professional prominence through his own untiring and determined effots. He is a Democrat politically, and a active leader in temperance. He was the first sheriff who promptly settled up his accounts in full with the State since the war of 1860, and all the positions with which the people have favored him, he has filled to their outspoken satisfaction. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and takes an active part in all measures and enterprises calculated for the general good of the masses.