Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske p. 232 "Driscol, Michael, clergyman, b. in Drumbeagh, county Clare, Ireland, in 1805; d. in Troy, N. Y., in 1880. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1831, and was ordained in 1840. He exercised his ministry in Kentucky and New York, and attended the victims of the ship-fever in Canada. He was superior of the theological seminary at Fordham and afterward president of St. Francis Xavier college, New York. He erected the church of St. Michael in Troy, N.Y." posted by Sharon Carberry not researching this surname