THOMAS G. CASEY 

Thomas G. Casey, a San Joaquin Township farmer, was born May 3, 1824, in the State of New York, near Auburn, Cayuga County. His father, Jesse D. Casey, was a native of New York, a farmer by occupation, and died in Yates County, New York. The maiden name of Thomas’ mother was Betsey Brown. In their family were four sons and four daughters: William J., Charles H., Sarah J., T.G., Edward M., Emeline, Eliza and Margaret. Mr. Thomas G. Casey was on a farm until he had passed twenty years of age, when he began to learn the harness-making trade in Potter, Yates County, New York, and for a number of years, with interruptions at farming, he followed his trade at Branchport, same county, on the west branch of Crooked Lake. November 10, 1849, he married Rebecca A. Putney, daughter of Jedediah Putney. She died August 3, 1860, in this county. May 1, 1864, Mr. Casey married again, this time Mrs. Imogene A. Mitchell, a native of New Hampshire, and daughter of Milton Aldrich, who came to this county in 1862, and died here March 7, 1871, at the age of seventy-three years and three months. His wife, Eunice, born in 1806, still survives him. By the first marriage there were four children: Henry P., born August 9, 1851; George T., March 28, 1854; John T., July 21, 1855, and died two days after; and Arthur B., born August 20, 1856. All the living are in this county. By the second marriage there are three children, viz.: Milton A., born October 23, 1865; Jesse E., June 21, 1870; and Lily A., August 14, 1871. Mr. Casey came to California in 1859, by way of the Isthmus, from New York, embarking on the 4^th of July and landing here the 30^th. He spent the first year on the Putney ranch, on the Cosumnes. He then went out upon the grant and struggled along until he accumulated a small amount of means, and then bought a claim of 160 acres at $3 an acre, and when in 1874 it came into market, he sold it for $2,000. Then he came on the north side of the line into Brighton Township, and occupied rented property until 1880, when he purchased his present ranch of a quarter section in San Joaquin Township, for $3,000. It is twelve miles from Sacramento and three from Florin. Here he has made some valuable improvements, especially in fencing, out-building, etc. He carries on general farming, but has also fifteen acres in vineyard and orchard; has an interesting variety of trees and a great number of beautiful shrubs. He is a Republican in his political sympathies, having cast his first vote for W.H. Harrison, while by coincidence his son Milton A. first voted for Benjamin Harrison. Mrs. Casey came to California with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, in 1859. She married Mr. W.P. Mitchell, May 12, 1861, and he died December 24, following, during the time of the flood, with small-pox, four miles north of the American River, on the Norris grant. She then taught school and did house work. Their daughter, Waltermine, was born April 9, 1862, and died September 2, 1862.