Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Casey, William 1848 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

WILLIAM CASEY was born in 1848 in county Wexford, Ireland. 
He is the son of Thomas and Margaret (Kelly) Casey. Thomas 
Casey (father) was born in Wexford, and was a tanner and a 
farmer. His wife was Margaret Kelly, daughter of John and 
Catharine Kelly. In religious faith they and their family 
were Catholics. Thomas Casey died at the age of 
seventy-five years, and his wife at the age of fifty. Their 
children: Matthew (deceased); James (deceased); Robert 
(deceased); Bridget, died in Roxboro; Kitty (deceased); 
William; John, lives in West Philadelphia.

William Casey attended school at Wexford and Ballecarret 
until he was fifteen years old. For five years he farmed and 
dealt in cattle in Ireland, and on April 23, 1869, he set 
sail for America, landing at New York, on May 13, 1869. For 
a time he lived at Easton, on the Hudson river, working for 
William T. Christy, and later went to Brooklyn and was 
employed in Lockett's pork packing establishment. He spent 
some time in Philadelphia and Downingtown before settling in 
Plymouth, where he farmed the Lukens farm for William 
O'Neil. He engaged in the milk business, which he followed 
successfully until 1893, when he bought the Daniel Foley 
farm, where he has since resided. He attends the Manayunuk 
market with the produce of his farm. In politics he is a 
Democrat, and is a member of St. Matthew's Catholic church 
of Conshohocken.

He married Margaret O'Neil, daughter of John and Margaret 
(Smith) O'Neil, of Conshohocken. Their children are as 
follows: Margaret, born January 18, 1880; Thomas, born June 
21, 1882; Sallie, born October 29, 1884; John, born July 1, 
1887; William, born June 1, 1889; Mary, born August 26, 
1891; Kitty, born December 16, 1893, died in 1894; Helen, 
born March 4, 1895; Bessie, born December 18, 1897.

John O'Neil (father of Mrs. Casey) was the son of Edward and 
Sarah (Sinnott) O'Neil, and was a native of county Wexford, 
Ireland. He was a successful quarryman and stone mason. He 
was a prominent Democrat in Conshohocken, and a member of 
the council in that place. He vas a member of St. Matthew's 
Catholic church. John O'Neil died at the age of seventy 
years in West Conshohocken.
 
John O'Neil married Margaret Smith, daughter of James and 
Margaret (Lacey) Smith, of county Wexford, Ireland. Their 
children are: Mary, married Michael McGinnis, and lives in 
West Conshohocken, her husband being deceased; Edward, 
married Mary Ann McGettigen (deceased), they having two 
children, Margaret and Bella, and residing in Philadelphia; 
Margaret; Sarah residing in West Conshohocken; Katie, 
residing in West Conshohocken.

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