Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr.
{{Short description|American entomologist and colonel (1857–1925)}}
{{about|the American entomologist|his father, the Chief of Engineers|Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr.}}
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Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr. (February 19, 1857 – February 3, 1925) was an American army engineer and entomologist who was noted for his work on Coleoptera. He was the eldest son of Brigadier General Thomas Lincoln Casey (1831–1896), who served as Chief of Engineers for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and oversaw the completion of the Washington Monument.
Military career
Casey was born in West Point, New York. He followed in his father's footsteps and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. He entered the academy in 1875 and graduated second in his class in 1879, when he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170211002056/http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/566000/norfolk-135-thomas-lincoln-casey-jr/ United States Army Corps of Engineers-Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr.]
He was promoted to 1st lieutenant in June 1881 and to captain in July 1888. From 1895 he was assigned to construction of fortifications at Fort Monroe and the Hampton Roads area in Virginia. In July 1898, he was promoted to major and supervised the installation of underwater mines to defend Hampton Roads during the Spanish–American War. He then served at Vicksburg, Mississippi from 1899 to 1901 and was in charge of Mississippi river improvements at St. Louis, Missouri from 1901 to 1906.
In 1906, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1909, he was promoted to colonel and assigned as engineer secretary to the Lighthouse Board until 1910. Casey retired from the army on November 1, 1912.{{cite book|title=Biographical register of the officers and Graduates U.S. Military Academy|author=George Washington Cullum|year=1920}}
Scientific work
He published numerous scientific papers on the subject of Coleoptera and a monograph, Memoirs on the Coleoptera (1910–1924).Brett Ratcliffe (2007) [http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/TCasey.htm Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, Scarab workers]--accessed 20 March 2007 He was also known for contributions to astronomy.R.G. Aitken (1925). Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 37, No. 219, p.265 [http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1925PASP...37..265A&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf (PDF)]
Later life
Casey died on February 3, 1925 in Washington, D.C.{{cite news |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/149559836 |title=Died: Casey |date=February 4, 1925 |page=5 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=29 July 2024}}{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9nVCu7ZZBMC&pg=PA173 |chapter=Thomas Lincoln Casey |title=Fifty-sixth Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York |date=June 11, 1925 |pages=183–185 |publisher=Seemann & Peters Printers and Binders |location=Saginaw, Michigan |access-date=29 July 2024}} He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery three days later.{{cite web |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/index.html#/search-all/results/1/CgVDYXNleRIGVGhvbWFzGgFMQggxOTI1LV8tXw--/ |title=Casey, Thomas L |website=ANCExplorer |publisher=U.S. Army |access-date=29 July 2024}}
Bibliography
Coleopterological works:
- Casey T. L. 1910–1924. Memoirs on the Coleoptera.
Malacological work:
- Casey T. L. 1904. [https://archive.org/details/notesonpleurotom00case Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species]. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, volume 14, number 5, pages 123–170.
References
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External links
- [https://siarchives.si.edu/gsearch/7134 Thos. L. (Thomas Lincoln) Casey Papers]
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Thomas Lincoln Casey |sopt=t}}
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Category:People from West Point, New York
Category:United States Military Academy alumni
Category:United States Army Corps of Engineers personnel
Category:Military personnel from New York (state)
Category:American entomologists
Category:Scientists from New York (state)
Category:American military personnel of the Spanish–American War