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74 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: 1. John Samuels, of whom further. 2. Marguerite, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, about 1825; married Dr. Robert G. Cabell. 3. Mary Eliza, born in Chesterfield county. Virginia; married Daniel H. London. 4. Nannie E., died unmarried. 5. Harriet Augusta, born February 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, married a Mr. Hutchinson. 7. James A., who in 1913 was living in Fauquier county, Virginia.

In "Welles Pedigree of the Washington Family," page 250, is mentioned the marriage of James Kerr Caskie, son of John and Martha (Norvel) Caskie, of Richmond, Virginia, 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 was born September 26, 1824. at Richmond, Virginia, died October 5, 1870, at Rockbridge Baths, Virginia. They had Martha Norvel Caskie, born in Richmond, Virginia, about 1845.

(II) John Samuels Caskie, son of James and Eliza Randolph (Pincham) Caskie, was born November 8, 1821, at Manchester, Chesterfield county, Virginia, died in Richmond, Virginia, December 16, 1869. He graduated at the University of Virginia; then studied law in Richmond, where he practiced his profession. He was prosecuting attorney and judge of the Richmond and Henrico county circuit. Was elected representative 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 was defeated, he resumed the practice of law in Richmond, Virginia. He served in the Confederate States army during the civil war, in both artillery and infantry branches of the service. He married Fannie Johnson, about 1849, at Richmond. Virginia. She was born about 1830, in Chesterfield county, Virginia, died in 1862, at Richmond. They had five children, namely: 1. 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 lawyer; resides at Lynchburg, Virginia.

(III) James (2) Caskie, son of John Samuels and Fannie (Johnson) Caskie, was born July 2, 1852, in Richmond, Henrico county, Virginia. He attended school in his native city, 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 was elected a member of the common council, city of Richmond, Virginia, served eight years, and was presiding officer 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 Richmond, Virginia. He is a member of St. James' Episcopal Church.

Mr. Caskie married Emma Palmer, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Enders) Palmer, November 29, 1877, in Richmond. Virginia. She was born about 1856, in Richmond, Virginia.

Henry Taylor Wickham, a leading member of the Virginia bar, and who has made a most useful and honorable record in the political history of the commonwealth, presents an excellent illustration of the fruits of a distinguished ancestry, of well directed ambition and of lofty ideals. The inspiration which has marked his entire career from boyhood is found in maxims of great weight. The germ of sound ideals is to be found in character, which is to a great degree hereditary, but an essential to its growth is to have high ideals, and to always endeavor to attain to as high a standard in morality, sobriety and professional ethics as constant and unrelaxed effort will bring, and to acquire the habit of always keeping this in mind. The steady and constant