Thomas J. Keane Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
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Surname: KEANE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 

Page 926

   THOMAS J. KEANE, a successful business man of Exeter, who
has advanced his interests through thrift, good management and pro-
gressive methods, is the proprietor of a large grocery and provision
store and has a trade territory of wide extent.  Mr. Keane was born in
Ireland, January 6, 1869, and is a son of Thomas M. and Mary (Lohan)
Keane.  His parents were Irish born and his mother still lives in the
old home place.  The father was a carpenter and also a farmer and died
in Ireland in January, 1901.  Faithful members of the Catholic church,
they reared their family in that faith, their seven children being:
Michael, John, Thomas J., Patrick, Richard, Mary and Nora, the last
named being the wiŁe of John Lardner.  Mary is in a convent at Haver-
hill, Mass.
   Until he was sixteen years of age, Thomas J. Keane attended school
regularly and seems to have been a very apt pupil as it is told of him
that when thirteen years old his teacher had so much confidence in
his scholarship, as well as his good conduct, that the coveted appoint-
ment as monitor was given him, that entitled him to the dignified posi-
tion of teacher every half hour, the other half being given to study.
His sensible father then decided to apprentice him to the carpenter's
trade, at which he worked for two years.  He was eighteen years old
when he left the old home for America and after reaching the United
States located first at Amesbury, Mass., where he worked for one year
as a carriage maker and for a year more at Haverhill, as a carpenter.
Then he came to Exeter and for the next fifteen years was employed
in a shoe factory, for three years having charge of the packing room
at the Gale Bros. factory.  After leaving there he looked about for a
profitable and promising investment for his capital and in 1905 bought
his present business from J. M. La Valley.  He has greatly increased
its scope and volume and handles all commodities included as groceries
and provisions, keeping two teams and two men busy.  He has some
valuable real estate holdings including his comfortable residence on the
corner of Winter and Dartmouth streets.
   Mr. Keane was married in 1900 to Miss Alice W. Mullen, a native
of Exeter and a daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (McKeon) Mullen,
natives of Ireland.  The father is a machinist by trade, and during the
Civil War in the United States served as soldier.  His children are:
Alice W., John V., Francis A., and Elizabeth, wife of Harry Walton.
Mr. and Mrs. Keane have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who is the
wife of Hubart Gallant, of Rochester, N. Y., and they have one son,
Thomas Leo.  The entire family belongs to the Catholic church.  Mr.
Keane votes independently.  He belongs to the A. O. H., is a charter
member of the local lodge of Red Men and for the past eleven years
has been treasurer of the Foresters of America.  He is recognized as
a man of sterling business principles and is highly respected in this
section in which he has made his home for so many years.

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