Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Keogh, L K 1827 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

L. K. Keogh, Justice of the Peace, Minooka. Among the substantial resident of 
the village of Minooka is Esquire Keogh; who came here in the fall of 1856 and 
has since resided. He is a son of Patrick and Margaret (Keary) Keogh, the 
Kearys being of Welch extraction. He was born in 1827, in County Wexford, 
Ireland, where he received a liberal education and engaged in teaching at 
eighteen, and continued shaping the direction of the "young idea" in that 
country until he emigrated to America, in the fall of 1852. He stopped first 
at Syracuse, N. Y., where he taught for three years, then, coming to this 
State, in 1855, he taught one year in Joliet and until his coming to this 
place, where he was at once employed as a teacher in the public school, and 
continued very successfully for about ten years in all. For three years, he 
was engaged in the grocery business with Mr. Kinsley, under the firm name of 
Kinsley & Co. He has served the township as an officer in all the offices of 
trust, as Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of Highways, Town Clerk, Assessor 
and Treasurer, and is now serving as Justice of the Peace, which office he has 
held since 1874; he attends to the duties of his office, and also accommodates 
his neighbors with the use of his money at a reasonable rate of interest. 
September 26, 1866, he was married to Martha Weston, of Staffordshire, 
England; they have no children.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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