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History of Wetzel County, West Virginia
by John C. McEldowney, Jr., 1901

Page 97
CAPT. JOHN McCASKEY.

Captain McCaskey was born in Steubenville, Ohio, February 19, 1834.
When a boy he came with his parents to New Martinsville and continued
to reside there until the war, when he enlisted in the army, and was
electd first lieutenant in Company C, Fifteenth West Virginia. He was
afterwards promoted to captain and commanded Company C in some of the
hardest fought battles of the war. After he returned from the war in
1862, he was appointed Justice of the Peace, which office he held
until his death. He was also receiver of both county and circuit
courts. At one time he held the office of mayor of New Martinsville
for a number of terms. While in the army he contracted pulmonary
consumption, which caused his death, dying September 22, 1882.

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