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Casey, Harry Weir

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1861 - 1880

biographical statement

Citation:
Vault MSS 511 Box 3 Folder 2 Accessed November 16, 2010 (b. June 17, 1861 at West Point, New York; parentsLt. Col. Thomas Lincoln Casey and Emma Weir; member of the Junior class in the scientific depart.at Yale College; Casey drowned at Narragansett Pier on Sept. 1, 1880)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Scrapbook on Gulian Verplanck Weir, Harry Weir Casey, and William Bayard Weir, undated

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 511 Series 13
Scope and Contents note

Scrapbook contains information about Gulian Verplanck, Harry Casey Weir, and William Bayard Weir, with materials dating from between 1849 and 1886. The Gulian Verplanck section contain newspaper clippings about his suicide. Harry Casey Weir section contains one photograph of Weir and his obituaries. William Bayard Weir section contains newspaper clipping about his murder by the Indians. There is also a note by Lavinia M. Morehead, written between 1765 and 1929.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 511, Weir family papers

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