An anthropological Fortean.
(I think.)
There’s a speculative bridge between the name in Doubt and the man in life. The name in Doubt (and in doubt, I guess) is Dave Kelley. He has an interest in Atlantis. He writes about Mexico (and Canada, to be fair) in 1949. In 1954, he is in Mexico with an archeological team.
It’s not much to go on, but I submit that the name in Doubt also refers to this man:
David Humiston Kelley was born in Albany, New York, on 1 April 1924. (Not the first Fortean to have been born on April Fool’s Day.) His father was Gilbert David Kelley. An Irish-Catholic born in New York, his history is hard to follow; there’s a long gap between about 1880 and the 1910s, and he is not in either the 1920 or 1930 census that I can find. He seems to have worked himself up to an accountant. David’s mother was Helen Ensworth Humiston, a New York Yankee descended from Amos Humiston, the famous soldier killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. Helen was about 32 and Gilbert 44 when David was born. He was the only child living with them in 1925 according to the New York State census.
(I think.)
There’s a speculative bridge between the name in Doubt and the man in life. The name in Doubt (and in doubt, I guess) is Dave Kelley. He has an interest in Atlantis. He writes about Mexico (and Canada, to be fair) in 1949. In 1954, he is in Mexico with an archeological team.
It’s not much to go on, but I submit that the name in Doubt also refers to this man:
David Humiston Kelley was born in Albany, New York, on 1 April 1924. (Not the first Fortean to have been born on April Fool’s Day.) His father was Gilbert David Kelley. An Irish-Catholic born in New York, his history is hard to follow; there’s a long gap between about 1880 and the 1910s, and he is not in either the 1920 or 1930 census that I can find. He seems to have worked himself up to an accountant. David’s mother was Helen Ensworth Humiston, a New York Yankee descended from Amos Humiston, the famous soldier killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. Helen was about 32 and Gilbert 44 when David was born. He was the only child living with them in 1925 according to the New York State census.