![]() We visited the new Keller farm in late September and picked a delicious peck of Jonathan apples! Frank Keller IV now is in charge of a fourth generation of the Keller family involved in farming! When he passed away my cousins, Frank III and his brother Ray Keller, bought the farm on 95th Street where they still have a farm stand. They had a farm stand from late spring to early fall and sold eggs all year. He was a dairy farmer, but had an apple orchard with 10 different varieties of apples along with strawberries, asparagus, raspberries and grapes. His youngest son, Frank, married Nora Bapst and he bought the farm on Ogden Avenue between Naperville and Lisle. He married Barbara Weigand, another old Naperville name, and they had 10 children. He grew apples, grapes, pears, raspberries and strawberries to sell at his farm stand on River Road. Actually, his naturalization papers say the “Kingdom of Bavaria.” He was a farmer and his first farm was on River Road just south of McDowell’s Forest Preserve. My great grandfather, Adam Keller, moved to Naperville from Leimersheim Germany, in 1851. Growing up in Naperville, I’ve watched a small blue collar, farming town become a large city in the suburbs of Chicago. ![]()
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