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Casserly, Eugene – Caswell, Lucien B

Casserly, Eugene

lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born in 1822, in Ireland. He removed to California in 1850, and identified himself with the press of San Francisco. He was elected a senator in congress from California for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875. He died June 14, 1883, in San Francisco, Cal.

Cassidy, George Williams

journalist, state senator, congressman, was born April 25, 1836, in Bourbon county, Ky. He became a journalist, and settled in Nevada. He was a state senator from 1872 to 1880; president of the senate during the session of 1879; and was elected a representative from Nevada to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.

Cassidy, Patrick S

journalist, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1850, in Ireland.

In 1868 he became connected with the Associated Press, remaining with that association for ten years. He successively edited the New York Sunday Democrat, Illustrated Times and the Celtic Magazine, of which latter periodical he was part owner. Since 1881 he has been regularly connected with the Sunday Mercury. He has written song verse; and is the author of a work entitled Glenough, or the Victims of Vengeance.

Cassin, John

naturalist, author, was born Sept. 6, 1813, in Chester, Pa. He was a naturalist of Philadelphia whose American Ornithology is a continuation of Audubon's work on that subject. Other works of his are Ornithology of the Japan Expedition; Mammalogy and Ornithology of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition; Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, etc.; and A General Synopsis of North American Ornithology. He died Jan. 10, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Cassin, Stephen

naval officer, was born Feb. 16, 1783, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He served with distinction in the war with Tripoli, commanded the Ticonderoga in Macdonough's victory on Lake Champlain, and was rewarded by congress with a gold medal for bravery in that action. He was a terror to the pirates that infested the West Indies, and captured four of their vessels in 1822. He died Aug. 29, 1857, in Georgetown, D. C.

Casteel, John William

journalist, was born Dec. 27, 1872, in Laurel county, Ky. He is the editor and owner of The Newton Herald of Jasper, Ark., of which city he has been mayor.

Castle, Curtis Harvey

educator, physician, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1848, in Knox county, Ill. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as the fusion candidate of the populist and democratic parties.

Castle, James N

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 23, 1836, in Shefford, P. Q. He was elected district attorney and located in Stillwater, where he has been engaged in the practice of law since. He was elected to the state senate in 1868, and re-elected in 1878 and 1882, serving in all ten years. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Caswell, Alexis

clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1799, in Taunton, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and educator; and for thirty-five years a professor at Brown university, and its president in 1868-72. He has lectured on Astronomy; and Meteorological Observations. He died Jan. 8, 1877, in Providence, R. I.

Caswell, Lucien B

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, born Nov. 27, 1827, in Swanton, Vt. In 1855 he was district attorney; a delegate to the republican convention of 1868; and a member of the state legislature in 1863, 1872, and 1874.

He was elected representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first a congresses as a republican. He was on several important committees.