by George Curtis Waldo
New York: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1917
pp. 472-75
Dr. Robert B. Keane, a physician and surgeon at No. 90 North Washington avenue, was born in Bridgeport at a point only four blocks from his present residence and office, his natal day being April 21, 1876. His father, Michael G. Keane, was born in County Clare, Ireland, and when a youth of sixteen years came to the new world with his parents, the family settling in Newtown, Fairfield county, where the grandparents of Dr. Keane spent their remaining days. Michael G. Keane has resided in Bridgeport for more than a half century and is a dealer in granite and marble, in which business he has engaged for more than forty years He married Johanna Kelly, who was also born in County Clare, Ireland, and she, too, came to the new world with her parents, Michael and Mary Kelly, being at that time a young girl.
Dr. Keane is the fifth in order of birth in a family of thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters, of whom seven are yet living, three sons and four daughters, all of whom are residents of Bridgeport. Dr. Keane has spent his entire life in Bridgeport, where nt the usual age he entered the public schools and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1896. He afterward devoted two years to the study of chemistry and biology in the New York University and in 1898 he entered the Yale Medical College, in which he spent three years. He afterward completed his studies in the New York University and in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and after spending a year in the latter institution won his professional degree in 1903. He next became an interne in the Williamsburg Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, in which he spent a year, and in 1904 he entered upon active practice in Bridgeport, where he has since successfully conducted his interests. He now has an extensive practice calling him into many of the best homes of the city and he is also serving on the medical staff of St. Vincent's Hospital.
On the 6th of November, 1906, Dr. Keane was married to Miss Gertrude Driscoll, of Bridgeport, a native of this city and a daughter of John Driscoll, who at one time was well known in Bridgeport, where he engaged in business as a wholesale and retail liquor dealer. Dr. and Mrs. Keane have four children, namely, Helen R., Robert and Gertrude, twins, and Mary.
The family attend St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church and the Doctor also has membership with the Knights of Columbus and with the Foresters of America. He is fond of golf and plays the game well, and he also enjoys baseball and football. All these, however, are regarded as but side lines, being made subservient to his professional responsibilities and duties, for which he is continually further qualifying as a member of the Fairfield County and the Connecticut State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, whereby he keeps in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and research.
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