James G. Case

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James G. Case

James Gordon CASE, who is engaged in the general merchandise business at Chester, is a Civil War veteran and has been a resident of Morris county for the past thirty-five years. He is a stockholder in the National Union Bank of Dover and in the Morristown Trust Company, two prominent financial institutions of this section. His citizenship has been characterized by honest and upright methods and his life has been exemplary in all respects.

A native of Sussex county, New Jersey, Mr. CASE was born in December, 1843. His father, John O. CASE, was likewise born in Sussex county, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was Jane VAN KIRK. To them were born seven children:

Edward A., deceased;
Winfield S.;
Ellen, widow of William MUNNELL;
Frank;
Elizabeth, wife of Levi KAYS;
Marcus, deceased;
James G., of this sketch.

John O. CASE was reared a farmer and followed that line of enterprise in Sussex county until he died in 1888. His cherished and devoted wife passed away in 1894 and both are interred at North Church, Sussex county, New Jersey.

Under the invigorating discipline of the old homestead farm James G. CASE was reared to maturity and he attended the common schools of Sussex county. He reached manhood during the strenuous period of the Civil War and in his twenty-first year manifested his intrinsic loyalty to the cause of freedom and justice by enlisting for service in the Twenty-seventh New Jersey Volunteer Infantry for a period of one year, at the end of which time he became a member of the Second New Jersey Calvary, serving in the latter organization until the end of the war. He took part in many important and sanguinary conflicts, including that of Egypt Station, and he was on duty everywhere with General G. B. GREARSON. After General LEE’s surrender he received his honorable discharge from the army and returned to his home in Sussex county, where he farmed for the ensuing eight years. He then began to work in the general store of RICHARDS, SIMPSON & Company at Woodford, Morris county, and in 1878 came to Chester as manager of a branch store for that concern. Subsequently he formed a partnership with Mr. SIMPSON and together they conducted the general store known under the style of SIMPSON & CASE for sixteen years. The above mutually agreeable alliance was dissolved in January, 1913, since which time Mr. CASE has conducted his business individually under the name James G. CASE. A fine patronage is controlled and the stock of goods handled is strictly high class. Mr. CASE has money invested in the National Union Bank of Dover, and in the Morristown Trust Company and he owns some fine real estate in and adjacent to Chester.

In 1864 Mr. CASE married Emma LANTZ, whose demise occurred in 1883. She is survived by two children:

Fannie, wife of Joseph WILSON;
Charles S., a grocer, a resident of Boonton, New Jersey.

In 1888 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. CASE to Sarah A. EMMONS, who bore him a daughter,

Elizabeth.

Mr. CASE is a Republican, and he and his wife attend the Presbyterian church at Chester. He is connected with Prospect Lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M.

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).