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ASEY, EDWARD PEARCE, architect and civil engineer, was born in Portland, Maine, June 18, 1864. He is a son of Brigadier-General Thomas Lincoln Casey and Emma Weir Casey. His father, General Casey, was distinguished in his engineering career from the time he was graduated at the head of his class at West Point, until he was designated (October 2, 1888) to erect the new building for the Library of Congress. Edward Pearce Casey was architect for the completion of the Congressional Library building from 1892 until 1897, in which year the library was finished. Thomas Casey, their earliest known ancestor in this country, sailed from Plymouth, England, in 1658. Silas Casey, major-general in the United States army, was his grandfather, and Admiral Silas Casey of the United States navy was his uncle. Robert W. Weir professor of painting at West Point military academy and John Ferguson, mayor of New York city are among his direct ancestors.

His early life was passed in a city. He attended the Emerson institute in Washington, District of Columbia. He was graduated from the civil engineering department of the School of Mines of Columbia college. New York city, in 1886; and from the architectural department of the same institution in 1888. For three years he studied at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. In the competition for plans for the New York City Hall, in 1893, among one hundred and thirty-four competitors he was one of six equal prize-winners. Associating himself with Professor Burr of Columbia college, they competed for a design for the Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, District of Columbia, and won the first prize, in 1900. Since 1900 he has won competitions for the monument to General U. S. Grant in Washington, District of Columbia; and for the Memorial Continental Hall, for the Daughters of the American Revolution, in the same city.

Mr. Casey was a member of the Seventh Regiment, N. Y. S. M., from 1885-94. He belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, to the