Keeler, Roswell

Born: 1791-04-02 Connecticut

Died: 1864-02-09 La Salle, Illinois

Flourished: La Salle, Illinois

Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, Roswell Keeler was a merchant and station agent. While living in New York, New York and working as a merchant, he married Mary Eliza Plant in September 1820 in Utica, New York. The couple had at least six children together and eventually moved West, settling in La Salle, Illinois, where Keeler worked as a station agent for the Illinois Central Railroad. By 1860, he and his wife were still living in La Salle.

James Boughton, A Genealogy of the Families of John Rockwell, of Stamford, Conn., 1641, and Ralph Keeler, of Hartford, Conn., 1639 (New York: William F. Jones, 1903), 109, 217; The New-York Evening Post (New York, NY), 15 September 1820, 2:6; Stefan Hughes, Catchers of the Light: The Astrophotographers’ Family History (n.p.: Stefan Hughes, 2012), 1:639-41; Notice to Take Depositions in Phares v. Jennings and Oatman; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), La Salle, La Salle County, IL, 66; Gravestone, Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, NY.