Career
Born in the town of Lyndon, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Keyes was a farmer, in the town of Lyndon, and owned a cheese factory. He also worked for the I. L. Wood Barbed Wire Fence Manufacturing Company and worked on a farm for two years in DeKalb, Illinois.
Keyes served as chairman of the Lyndon Town Board and was a Republican.
He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1907 and 1909. Keyes died near Plymouth, Wisconsin after a long illness.
