Edwin Herbert Keeping (July 5th, 1878 - April 15th, 1912) was a servant of George Dunton Widener. A widely travelled man, Keeping had visited numerous countries to work with various employers, among whom was a Russian Grand Duke, who gave him a locket as a present when he left. Edwin emigrated to the USA around 1903 and became employed by the wealthy Widener family of Pennsylvania. He was married around 1908 to a Swedish-born lady, Caroline Elizabeth Johansson (b. 10 February 1880) who had emigrated to the USA in 1895 from Stockholm and who was also in the employment of the Wideners. The couple had one child, their daughter Mildred Evelyn Nance, who was born in 1909. The family were shown on the 1910 census living in Cheltenham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.