Thomas W. Keene

He served as a volunteer in the American Civil War, 1861–65, and after its close joined a stock company in Newark, New Jersey.

He joined the stock company of the National Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio, and traveled through the west taking the parts of Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III, 1869.

He supported E. L. Davenport, Charlotte Cushman and Clara Morris, and in 1875 was leading man to John McCullough in California.

He resided in Castleton Corners, Staten Island, for the last 16 years of his life, amassing of library of some 2,600 books as well as costumes, autographs, and other theatre memorabilia.

[8] He died at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, on June 1, 1898, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Castleton Corners.