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Louis Keller is best known as the German-American New Yorker of wide social acquaintance who assembled and published the New York Social Register, which first appeared in 1886. The registry for the Metropolitan National Horse Show, held at the original Madison Square Garden on Madison Avenue and East 26th Street since 1883, listing its attendees and directors, formed part of the basis of Louis Keller's Social Register,[1] which was far more inclusive than Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred"— the number, reputedly, that could be accommodated in Mrs William Astor's ballroom.
In 1895 Keller founded the Baltusrol Golf Club on five hundred acres he had bought in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey. He acquired the Rahway Valley Railroad Company in 1904 in order to transport passengers to his club.
- ^ Alex Williams, "A Horse Show Princess Shakes Up the Stables" The New York Times, 31 October 2004 (on-line text).
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