Robert W. Case

A number of the important interests of Whippany, Morris county, New Jersey, have an able representative in Robert W. CASE, farmer and general business man. His father, William CASE, was born in Ireland, and was brought to this country when he was seven years of age. They located at Whippany, Morris county, where he was educated in the district schools of that day. He is now about seventy-fours old and resides in Pine Brook, where he married Mary LYSAUGHT, now deceased, and had seven children, of whom three are living at the present time.

Robert W. CASE was born in Pine Brook, Morris county, New Jersey, in 1874, and obtained his education in the public schools of his native township. After leaving school he was engaged in farming and about 1897, purchased his present farm at Whippany, Morris county. He is a man of many-sided ability, and has just started a saw mill with very satisfactory results. Another of the enterprises with which he is identified is a stone crushing mill, at Pine Brook. His saw mill is considered one of the best constructed in the county. He is a strong supporter of the Republican principles, and a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Order of Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. CASE married Ruth Elizabeth CORY, born at Troy Hills, Morris county, New Jersey, a descendent of an old family of the state. They have two children: Walter and Lorene.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)