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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

where he brought up his family, and from them all of the Caskies now in Virginia are descended.

James Caskie married Eliza Randolph Pincham. at Richmond. Virginia. They had seven children, namely: i. John Samuels, of whom further. 2. Marguerite, born in Ches- terfield county, Virginia, about 1825 ; mar- ried Dr. Robert G. Cabell. 3. Mary Eliza, born in Chesterfield county. Virginia ; mar- ried Daniel H. London. 4. Nannie E., died unmarried. 5. Harriet Augusta, born Feb- ruary 6, 1833; married, November 14, 1850, John Scott, born April 23, 1820, died in 1907 ; became a captain in the Confederate States army. 1861-65 ; resided at "Oakwood." in Fauciuier county. Virginia. 6. Ellen, mar- ried a Mr. Hutchinson. 7. James A., who in 1913 was living in Fauquier countw \^ir- ginia.

In "Welles Pedigree of the Washington Family." page 250, is mentioned the mar- riage of James Kerr Caskie, son of John and Martha (Norvel) Caskie. of Richmond. Vir- ginia, the 26th day of May, 1844. to Ellen Jeal Gwathmey. "second child of Frances Fielding Lewis," in North Carolina. He died in September, 1868. She w^as born Sep- tember 26, 1824. at Richmond. Virginia, died October 5, 1870, at Rockbridge Baths, Virginia. They had Martha Norvel Caskie, born in Richmond, Virginia, about 1845.

(ID John Samuels Caskie, son of James and Eliza Randolph (Pincham) Caskie, was born November 8, 1821. at Manchester, Chesterfield county, Virginia, died in Rich- mond, Virginia. December 16, 1869. He graduated at the University of Virginia : then studied law in Richmond, where he practiced his profession. He was prosecut- ing attorney and judge of the Richmond and Henrico county circuit. Was elected repre- sentative from Virginia to the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat ; reelected to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1851, to March 3. 1859 ; was a candidate for the Thirty-sixth Congress, but w^as defeated, lie resumed the practice of law in Rich- mond. Virginia. He served in tlie Confed- erate States army during the ci\"il war. in both artillery and infantry branches of the service. He married Fannie Johnson, about 1849. 'it Richmond. Virginia. She was born about 1830. in Chesterfield county. \*irginia.

died in 1862, at Richmond. They had five children, namely: i. John S. 2. James, of whom further. 3. William R. Johnson. 4. Lizzie, married D. C. Jackson ; lives at Lynchburg. Virginia. 5. George E.. a law- yer ; resides at Lynchburg, Virginia.

(HI) James (2) Caskie. son of John Sam- uels and Fannie (Johnson) Caskie, was born July 2, 1852, in Richmond, Henrico county, Virginia. He attended school in his native cit}-, then the Richmond College until he was about seventeen years of age, and was then employed in commercial pursuits for a year or two. About 1870 he began the study of law and was admitted to the Virginia state bar in 1873. Since that time he has been engaged in the active practice of law in Richmond, Virginia. He is a Democrat and has been more or less identified in local politics for many years. He w^as elected a member of the common council, city of Richmond, Virginia, served eight years, and was presiding of^cer of the same for four years of that time. He is a member of the State Prison Association, the Virginia Bible Society, and of several other eleemosynary organizations, also of the Kappi Kalphi Society. He is a director and stockholder of the Merchants' National Bank, of Rich- mond. Virginia. He is a member of St. James' Episcopal Church.

Mr. Caskie married Emma Palmer, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth (Enders) Pal- mer. November 29, 1877, in Richmond. Vir- ginia. She was born about 1856, in Rich- mond. Virginia.

Henry Taylor Wickham, a leading mem- ber of the Virginia bar. and who has made a most useful and honorable record in the political history of the commonwealth, pre- sents an excellent illustration of the fruits of a distinguished ancestry, of well directed ambition and of lofty ideals. The inspira- tion which has marked his entire career from boyhood is found in maxirfis of great weight. The germ of sound ideals is to be found in character, which is to a great de- gree hereditary, but an essential to its growth i^ to have high ideals, and to always en- deavor to attain to as high a standard in morality, sobriety and professional ethics as constant and unrelaxed eiifort will bring, and to acquire the habit of always keeping

this in mind. The steadv and constant