Hugh John Casey

Hugh John Pat Casey was a major general in the United States Army. A 1918 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Casey served in Germany during the Occupation of the Rhineland. He later returned to Germany to attend the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, earning a Doctor of Engineering degree.

Hugh John Casey was born in Brooklyn, New York onJune 1898, the son of John J. Casey, a plumbing and heating contractor, and Margaret L. Casey. Johns grandparents were immigrants from Ireland and England. His grandfather served on the Union side in the American Civil War and was killed in the Battle of Shiloh. Margarets parents were Irish immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania.

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