1867
On motion, the following preamble and resolutions were recd. and adopted.
Whereas Rev. A. A. Keran a Minister of the Protestant Methodist Church is present & presents documentary evidence of being in good standing in said church & Whereas he has preached to the satisfaction of many within our bounds.
And whereas he can & does adopt the Confession of Faith of this Church & desires to connect himself with this Presbytery.
Therefore Resolved he be & is hereby received a Minister of this Presby.
[Source: Minutes of the Springfield Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 30, 1867, page 259]

1868
A. A. Keran
Served on Committee to Examine the Minutes of Pacific Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, Lincoln, Illinois, May 21-29, 1868]
[Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1868, pages 8 & 12]

1869
A. A. Heran [sic], Greenfield, Missouri
Minister - Springfield Presbytery - Missouri Synod
[Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1869, page 88]

1870
A. A. Herron [sic], Greenfield, Missouri
Minister - Springfield Presbytery - Missouri Synod
[Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1870, page 83]

1872
Keran, A. A., Mt. Vernon, Mo.
Minister - Ozark Presbytery - Ozark Synod
[Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1872, page 122]

1873
Keran, A. A., Mt. Vernon, Mo.
Minister - Ozark Presbytery - Ozark Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, Huntsville, Alabama, May 15-23, 1873
Served on Committee to Examine the Minutes of Mississippi Synod
[Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1873, pages 6, 9 & 99]

1874
Resolved that the Stated Clerk be and is hereby authorized to grant Rev. A. A. Kearan [sic] a letter of Dismissal and Recommendation provided Brother A. A. Kearan [sic] calls upon him to do so.
[Minutes of the Ozark Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 20, 1874, page 172]

1874
Keran, A. A., Mt. Vernon, Mo.
Minister - Ozark Presbytery - Ozark Synod
[Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1874, page 98]

1874
The Stated Clerk reported that he, upon the request of Bro. A. A. Kearn had given him a letter of dismission, as ordered by the last Presbytery.
[Minutes of the Ozark Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 25, 1874, page 181]

After weary months of illness and days of intense physical suffering the close of life came to Dr. Azariah Asbury Keran, at his home in Lockwood, Monday morning, and at 11:30 he ceased to breathe. The last few hours of his illness were gentle with him, a state of coma succeeding very painful attacks of heart trouble, and his death was painless. Funeral services were conducted at the Cumberland Presbyterian church, in Golden City, on Tuesday, at 11:45 A.M., and according to the request of the deceased Rev. W. E. Shaw delivered the sermon. The church was crowded with old-time friends and neighbors of the kindly man of whose worth
and virtues the speaker eloquently discoursed, and at the conclusion of his remarks the cortege took up its way to the I.O.O.F. cemetery, where not quite two years ago Dr. Keran's good wife was buried. All who know Dr. Keran testify to his worth as a man and his virtues as a citizen.

On March 12, 1823, Azariah Asbury Keran was born in Fayette County, Ohio. His father was of Irish descent and his mother came of good old English stock, although her father, John Clemmons, took an active part in the struggles of the Revolution. Dr. Keran was a man of vigorous intellect and robust physique, and his early training on the farm was of great service to him in molding his character and fitting him for the pioneer work which he followed during the most of his career.
When he was three years old his father removed to Illinois and settled in Edgar County. There Dr. Keran grew to manhood. When 16 years of age he was converted at a camp-meeting held in Edgar county near Westfield. His parents were both members of the M. E. Church, and the circuit preacher being a very officious and important individual in those days took the liberty of adding his name to the class book. Young Keran had a good deal of spirit and this action led him to study the church discipline and form of government very closely during the following two years, with the result that he concluded to withdraw his name.

He was nineteen years of age on November 3, 1842, when he married Miss Catherine Dick. His wife was a Baptist, but subsequently they both united with the Methodist Protestant church, a society then in its thirteenth year. Three years later he was licensed to preach. In 1848 he joined the Illinois annual conference and was sent to the Crooked Creek Circuit. The next two years saw him Ordained successively a deacon and elder and for seven years he traveled in the Illinois and
South Illinois, Annual conferences. In 1855 he joined a colony bound for the wilds of Minnesota and there he located at Pine Island, on Zumbrow River. On Sunday, June 17th he organized what is supposed to have been the first M. P. church in Minnesota. After a sojourn of thirteen months, however, he became convinced that the climate was too cold and having processed his transfer from the Illinois conference to the Iowa conference he removed to Appanoose County, in the later state, in the Iowa conference was conferred upon him, and his duties called upon him to travel throughout the state for the next two years.

Three years later found this sturdy pioneer and Christian worker in Kansas. In September, 1863, he called a meeting of his scattered brethren in that state which was held on Alexander Emerson's farm, twelve miles south of Topeka. The object of the meeting was to organize an annual conference, but war's alarms were heard along the border then, and little was accomplished. Dr. Keran served during the last two years of the war as chaplain of the 6th Kansas State Militia, and when peace was declared received an honorable discharge.

At close of the war he was appointed missionary in Kansas by the board of missions of the Protestant Methodist church and for a year he traveled and labored strenuously, but owing to the unsettled state of society he had many difficulties to contend with. However, he succeeded in organizing an annual conference comprising of nine circuits and supplying all the pastors.

Following his last year's work in Kansas he removed to Dade County, Missouri, where he located northeast of Golden City on Horse Creek in 1866. Here Dr. Keran practiced medicine (A study which he commenced in 1839 and in the practice of which he was fitted to engage in 1851), during the next twenty years. He united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church soon after his arrival in this vicinity and remained with that religious body for ten years when he returned to his own denomination once more. While engaged in work for the C.P. church he represented that society in the General Assembly at Lincoln, Illinois, in 1868, and at Huntsville, Alabama, in 1873. At least four of his converts are now ministers of the Gospel, Viz: Rev. W. H. Stephens and Rev. W. E. Shaw, of Golden City; Rev. William Russell, of Lockwood, and Rev. W. A. McMinn, of Wynnewood, I.T.

After returning to the Methodist Protestant church he was elected president of the Missouri Annual conference in 1883 and Re-Elected on 1884. In the following year he with-drew from church work on account of failing health. Two years later he became superannuated and sustained that relation up to the time of his death. Dr. Keran removed to Golden City, in 1892 and on the 25th of July that year, his life-long companion and faithful wife died and was buried in the cemetery near where he now sleeps. Their union was blessed with six chidden, three girls and three boys. Dr. Keran was a man of Giant Intellect and few could cope with him in debate or grapple with him in intellectual conflicts. He was learned not only in medicine and theology, but he commanded equal respect when he chose to talk upon
any branch of science or jurisprudence. He was widely read in the domain of politics and his food of information was practically inexhaustible. Sometimes he was abrupt in speech but still he was a kindly hearted man, and his influence was always for good. Dr. Keran was truly a man for the times in which he lived.

..Rev. A. A. Keran died at the residence of his son, U. S. Keran, in this city on last Monday, near the hour of noon. Elder Keran was born in Ohio in 1822, and when a small boy came with his parents to Illinois. When grown to manhood he studied medicine, and at thirty years of age went to Minnesota as a physician for a colony. Remained the two years and then came to Iowa, thence to this county in 1866.
..From this county he went to Mount Vernon and practiced medicine five years. He then returned to his home ten miles northwest of Golden City where his wife died. After the death of this companion he came to this city and resided with his son, U. S. Keran, until last Monday, when he closed his eyes in death. He was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church and leaves some bright seals to his ministry. Among these we mention the fact that Revs. W. R. Russell, W. E. Shaw, both well known in this community, and Wm. McMinn, were all converted under Father Keran's preaching and hence Brother Keran, "though dead yet speaketh."
..Bro. Shaw, one of these spiritual children, officiated at the funeral which took place at Golden City on last Tuesday. We understand Bros. Russell and McMinn were also present at the funeral of their Spiritual Father. -- Lockwood Sentinal.

[The Chieftain, 26 July 1894 published Mt. Vernon, Missouri]