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Ralph Olmstead Keeler was the son of Ralph and Amelia (Brown) Keeler and grandson of Colman J. Keeler, a major of militia in the War of 1812. He was born on August 29, 1840 on a farm, present day town Custar, Wood County, Ohio, United States. At eight he was left an orphan and was sent to live with an uncle at Buffalo, New York.
Keller attended school for three years in Buffalo. Later he entered St. Vincent's College, a Jesuit school, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, which he attended from February 21, 1856, until June 1, 1857. He spent the succeeding year at Toledo, Ohio, and then entered Kenyon College in September 1858 as a freshman, leaving without a degree in June 1861. At college he had the reputation of being somewhat of a poet. After saving $181, he sailed for Europe and entered Karl-Rupert University at Heidelberg. He stayed here two years and left without a degree.
For a time Keeler served as cabin-boy on various Great Lakes steamers. The he started to perfect himself in playing the banjo and in clogdancing so that he might join a minstrel troupe. When he finally found a minstrel company willing to accept him he became a leading attraction as a child phenomenon, dancing, and playing female parts. His last minstrel connection was with the show-boat, The Floating Palace.
About 1861 he went to Toledo, Ohio and got a position in the post-office. Then he settled in San Francisco where he spent another two years lecturing, teaching English to foreigners, and writing for the Alta California, the Golden Era, and the Californian. In 1868 he returned to the East to act as correspondent for the Alta California. He spent this year lecturing in various towns, and published at his own expense a novel, Gloverson and His Silent Partners (1869), which, as W. D. Howells put it, "failed instantly and decisively. "
Soon after July 1869 Keeler became, through the influence of Howells, a proof-reader on the Atlantic Monthly. In 1870 appeared his best work, Vagabond Adventures, an autobiographical account of his life for the most part made up of material published in the Atlantic Monthly and Old and New. In the same year he contributed to Every Saturday "The Marquis de Villemer, " from the French of George Sand, which was later published in book form, and in 1871, as correspondent for the same magazine, he toured the Mississippi Valley, contributing an articles which appeared almost consecutively from Aprril 29 to December 9.
Five months of the year 1871 he spent at Geneva, Switzerland, reporting the proceedings of the high court of arbitration then settling the Alabama claims. On November 25, 1873, he sailed from New York to Cuba as special correspondent for the New York Tribune, and a number of his articles on the situation in the island appeared in that newspaper. On the night of December 17, he either fell or was thrown overboard from the boat on which he was traveling from Santiago to Havana on his return to New York.
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