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THOMAS LINCOLN CASEY. 
from that day the work, beginning with the foundations, 
moved in a quiet and uninterrupted progression until nearly 
completed at the time of his death. Without premonition 
he was taken suddenly ill on his way to the Library building 
on March 25, 1896, and in a few hours passed away. 
Throughout his whole professional life he was constantly 
in busy harness, generally charged with heavy and responsi¬ 
ble works and duties far more numerous and absorbing than 
even those here specially mentioned would indicate. As a 
member of his corps in the army, he was ever intensely loyal 
to its best interests and jealous of its good name as a servant 
of the Government. 
In conversation and business he was direct, thorough, and 
painstaking, considering in advance every step in detail. 
His nature was unusually sensitive, causing him often to 
be blunt in manner, especially to strangers, and to have a 
keen eye for men with selfish motives; but he was always 
frank and outspoken, and those who knew him well realized 
his solid honesty and kindness of heart. He possessed a re¬ 
markably social and genial disposition and a lively sense of 
humor, and his friendships, though not numerous, were of the 
sweetest and heartiest kind. 
He wrote little and rarely appeared in public, but almost 
constantly confined himself to the Government duties in 
which his life was bound up. 
General Casey was a member of the National Academy of 
Sciences, an officer of the Legion of Honor of France, mem¬ 
ber of the Society of the Cincinnati, Loyal Legion, Century 
Association of New York, and New England Historical and 
Genealogical Society. 
In early life he married Emma Weir, daughter of Prof. 
Robert W. Weir, of the Military Academy, who, with two sons, 
Captain Thomas L. Casey, of the Corps of Engineers of the 
Army, and Edward P. Casey, an architect in New York city, 
survives him. 
Bernard R. Green. 
