How did Keplers Corner, Pennsylvania get its name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Keplers Corner, Pennsylvania, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
Hamlet in northwestern Plumstead Township at the intersection of Stump Road and the road leading from Deep Run to Curley Hill Road. It is named for the Kepler family, long resident there. The Mathias Kepler tract, now owned by Horace Wolfinger, was part of the confiscated land of Israel Doan, father of Abraham Doan, outlaw of Revolutionary times. Elias Kepler was a member of the old military company known as Doylestown Grays, commanded by Captain Charles H. Mann. Upon Kepler’s death in 1848, the company passed a set of resolutions extolling his merits as a soldier.