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Denver Post, Colorado, Wednesday, June 15, 1927
Former Colorado Attorney General Dead At Greeley
Victor E. Keyes Succumbs To Stomach Trouble from Which He Suffered Years
Victor E. Keyes
Greeley, Colo., June 15.-Victor E. Keyes, attorney general of Colorado from 1918 to 1922 and for several years prior to that period assistant deputy district attorney of the Eighth district, died at his home here Tuesday afternoon from ulcer of the stomach. Keyes, who suffered from stomach trouble for several years, was taken ill in his law office Monday morning. He went home and retired to his bed, but did not consider his condition serious enough to call a physician until Tuesday, which proved too late. A postmortem examination was held to determine the actual cause of his death.
The former attorney general was born at Oneonta, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1879. He came to Colorado in 1898 and attended the Colorado university preparatory school. He graduated from the Colorado State Teachers college at Greeley in 1901 and later received degrees from Colorado college and the University of Chicago.
He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Dora Ladd of Denver, and three children ? Charles, 17 years old; Ernest, 14 years old, and Betty Jane, 9 years old. He also is survived by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Keyes, 1869 Bannock street, Denver; a sisters, Miss Margaret Joy Keyes, member of the faculty of the Colorado State Teachers college, and two brothers, Dr. John Bassett Keyes of Chicago and Attorney Carlyle Marlett Keyes of Evanston, Ill. Keyes first met Miss Ladd while both were students at the Colorado State Teachers college.
Following his retirement as attorney general of Colorado, Keyes returned to Greeley and resumed the practice of law. He was prominent and popular in legal, fraternal, club and church circles. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Elks and was president of the Colorado society, Sons of the American Revolution in 1921 and 1922. He was a member of the Greeley Presbyterian church.
Keyes graduated from the Colorado State Teachers college in 1901 and for the next years was principal of the schools at Fairplay, Colo. Then he went to Colorado college at Colorado Springs where he obtained a master?s degree and then to Chicago, where he studied law.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed, but the services will probably be held Friday, after the arrival of Keyes? two brothers from Illinois.
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1879 - 1927 (48 years)
d. 21 Jan 1907, Oneonta, Otsego County, New York