Carver, Nathaniel E – Casey, Silas
Carver, Nathaniel E
educator, was born Aug. 6, 1841, in Cape Vincent, N. Y. After graduating from the Massachusetts State Normal school he took up educational work in which he has been eminently successful. He has taught in Wisconsin schools in Richmond City, Lone Rock, Muscoda, Sextonville, Prairie du Chien, and Chetek; and for six years has been county superintendent of Barron county.
Cary, Albigence Waldo
inventor, was born May 23, 1801, in Coventry, R.
I. He was the inventor of Cary's rotary force-pump, which was used on the first steam fire-engine in the United States, in reconstructing the southern railway after the civil war and in the mines of California. He died Aug. 30, 1862, in Brockport, N. Y.
Cary, Alice
author, poet, was born April 26, 1820, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was an Ohio writer who came with her sister Phoebe to New York city in 1852, and as poet and novelist became prominent in literary circles there. The weekly receptions of the sisters were attended by artists and writers for many years. Her books of verse include Lyra, and Other Poems; A Lover's Diary; Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns; Early and Late Poems (with Phœbe Cary, infra). Her other works are Clovernook, a book of the type of Miss Mitford's Our Village; Pictures of Country Life; the novels, Hagar; The Bishop's Son; Married, not Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile; From Year to Year; and A Token of Remembrance. She died Feb. 12, 1871, in New York.
Cary, Annie Louise
singer, was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Wayne, Maine.
During the most active part of her professional career, she sang at all the festivals given in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Worcester. She was always a favorite with the American public; and was equally popular as an opera singer in foreign countries. In 1882 she was married to Charles Monson Raymond of New York city; and has since sung only in private and for charity.
Cary, Archibald
patriot, was born in 1730, in Virginia. He served mainly in the Virginia convention and was chosen president of the senate when its state government was organized. He died in September, 1786.
Cary, Edward
journalist, author, was born in 1840, in New York. He is a journalist of New York city on the editorial staff of The Times; and the author of Life of George William Curtis.
Cary, George B
congressman. He was a member of congress from the Petersburg district, Virginia, in 1842 and 1843. He died March 5, 1850, in Southampton county, Va.
Cary, George Lovell
theologian, author, was born in 1830, in Massachusetts. He has been professor of New Testament literature at Meadville Theological seminary since 1862; and is the author of Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament.
Cary, Joseph Clinton
inventor, was born Oct. 12, 1828, in Alexander, N.
Y. He built two steam fire-engines about 1860, to which his father's pump was applied, for use in New York city. He was the originator of the cross-town railroad running from Christopher street ferry to the East river at Twenty-third street. He died Aug. 7, 1884, in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Cary, Oliver Hazard P
soldier, state legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1819, in Connersville, Ind. He was in all the battles of the army of the Cumberland, and was wounded five times. In 1876 he was elected to represent Grant county in the legislature, and was re-elected in 1878 from Marion, Ind.
Cary, Phebe
author, poet, was born Sept. 4, 1824, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Poems and Parodies; Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love. She will be longest remembered by the well-known hymn, Nearer Home.
Her father moved from Vermont shortly before her birth.
She and her sister Alice wrote a number of exquisite poems. Her name is sometimes spelled Carey. She died July 31, 1871. 4
Cary, Samuel Fenton
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortieth congress; and was the only member of his party who voted against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
Cary, Shepard
merchant, farmer, congressman. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1832, 1833, from 1839 to 1842, in 1843, and from 1848 to 1854.
He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1844 to 1845. He died in August, 1866, in Maine.
Cary, Trumbull
soldier, legislator, banker, was born Aug. 11, 1787, in Mansfield, Conn. In 1805 he moved to Batavia, N. Y., and for thirty years was engaged in mercantile work. He was adjutant in the war of 1812; was elected to the assembly; served as state senator; and was the founder of the Bank of Genesee.
He died June 20, 1869.
Case, Charles
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 21, 1817, in Austinburg, Ohio. He was a representative from Indiana in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.
Case, Jerome I
manufacturer, was born Dec. 11, 1819, in Williamstown, N.
Y. The success of the Case machines was phenomenal. Repeated enlargements of the plant were needed, and these great and prosperous works now occupy forty acres of ground and have an output of $2,000,000 worth of machines a year. In 1880 the business was incorporated as The J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., capital $1,000,000. He died Dec. 22, 1891, in Racine, Wis.
Case, Marietta Stanley
poet, was born Aug. 22, 1845, in Thompson, Conn. She is the daughter of a clergyman of Puritan and revolutionary ancestry; and she is regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has held various offices in home and foreign missionary work.
Her best poems are entitled The Waning Century; and Amorpatioe, the latter being written for the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was one of the Connecticut women authors given creditable mention at the Atlanta exposition. She is the wife of Mr. A. Willard Case, a prominent paper manufacturer of South Manchester, Conn.
Case, Theodore Spencer
soldier, physician, journalist, was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Jackson, Butts county, Ga. From 1860 till 1861 he edited the Medical Review of Kansas City, Mo. He became second lieutenant of the twenty-fifth Missouri infantry in 1861, and later captain and assistant quartermaster. In 1865 he was made colonel and quartermaster-general of Missouri, and from 1866 till 1868 was curator of the university of Missouri.
From 1873 till 1885 he was postmaster of Kansas City; and in 1885 became professor of chemistry in Kansas City Medical college. He edited the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry from 1877 till 1885; and in 1886 became president of the Kansas City real estate and stock exchange.
Case, Walter
congressman, was born in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821. a
Casebeer, Jacob
physician, was born April 11, 1839, in Auburn, Ind. He was commissioned a surgeon in the union army, and was mustered out of the service June 27, 1865. He is a member and president of the North-eastern Medical society of Indiana, and also belongs to the American Medical association.
Casey, Joseph
jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1851; and in 1863 was appointed a judge of the court of claims.
Casey, Levi
congressman, was born in 1749, in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1803 to 1807. He died Feb. 1, 1807, in Washington, D. C.
Casey, Lyman R
congressman, was born in 1837, in York, N. Y. In 1882 he removed to North Dakota, and has since been engaged in the management of the affairs of the Carrington and Casey Land company, whose business includes the cultivation of several thousand acres of land. He acted as commissioner on the organization of Foster county, Dakota territory; and was elected to the United States senate as a republican in 1889, and served till 1893.
Casey, Samuel
financier, was born in Kentucky. While residing in Washington City he was appointed treasurer of the United States in 1853, and held the office until 1860.
Casey, Samuel L
congressman. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-seventh congress.
Casey, Silas
general, author, was born July 12, 1807, in East Greenwich, R.
I. He was a general in the United States army who published Infantry Tactics; and Infantry Tactics for Colored Troops.
In 1826 he graduated from the United States Military academy; served in the Seminole war of 1837-42; distinguished himself in the war with Mexico; and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861. He subsequently attained the rank of major-general of the United States army; retired in 1868; and twice received the thanks of the Rhode Island legislature for distinguished services in the civil war. He died Jan. 22, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y.