Hello list folks.
I've been working on a small biography of Leslie Keeley and I've been
persistently thwarted in my attempts to find out where he was born.
Several sources suggest different locations; some have him the son of a
soldier from Potsdam, NY, while others say he was the son of a physician,
and was born in Kings Co. Ireland.  And frankly, all of these sources are
fairly credible, yet none is conclusive.
 
I am ordering the manuscript census data, if it exists, for St. Lawrence
County, New York for 1830, and 1840, but it will not necessarily be
conclusive.  Can anyone give me an accurate place of birth and parentage
for Keeley?  Among more prominent sources, I've looked in H. Wayne Morgan's
Drugs in America and his article on Keeley, the Dictionary of Am. Temp.
Biog, the DAB, and the Nat Cyclical of American Biography.  But I'm still
stumped.
 
Thanks for any help you can give.
 
Dan Malleck
Queen's University, Kingston
Dept of History
Queen's University
 
...if the truth be told, most historians work less like a scientist testing
a hypothesis than like a small boy fondling sea shells.
                Terry Parssinen, _Secret Passions, Secret Remedies_
 
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                Zaphod Beeblebrox.