The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, page 526
Thomas B. Keleher, of the firm of Keleher Bros., druggists, of Danville, was born June 17, 1853, near Hogansburg, N.Y. When an infant his parents came to Indiana, settling in Danville, where he lived till his sixteenth year. He then left home and was engaged as a book canvasser in Iowa for several months, he being the general agent for the publisher, E. Hanniford, of Chicago. He left Iowa in 1871 and went to California, where he was employed in driving a stage between Trinidad and Eureka for one year. He was then employed on a sailing vessel almost a year. In 1874 he took a contract to get out 2,000,000 feet of redwood saw logs, in which business he was engaged till 1877. During the winter of 1877-'8 he attended the St. Joseph College at Rohnerville, Humboldt Co., Cal., and in the spring of 1878 he went to Crescent City, where he was employed as tallyman on the shipping docks for Joe E. Walls until December, 1878. He then returned to Indiana and engaged in farming in Center Township. In 1879 he was married to Miss Josephine Courtney, of Danville, who died in fall of 1881. They had one child--John Dudley. In the spring of 1883 he took a trip through Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas, returning in November of 1883, since which he has engaged in the drug business with his brother in Danville. In July, 1884, he was married to Miss Elsie Adelia Reed, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Have one child--Thomas Burtrand.