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CLASS OF 1852
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The son of Gen. Silas Casey (Class of 1826), Thomas and his two brothers became career officers, while his two sisters married army officers. After graduating from West Point, he spent his career in the Corps of Engineers. In 1856, while teaching engineering at West Point, he married Emma Weir, daughter of eminent artist Robert W. Weir, who taught at West Point. The Caseys had three sons, the oldest following his grandfather and father to West Point (1879).
After building seacoast fortifications during the Civil War, Casey came to Washington in 1867 to head the Division of Fortifications.
In 1877 he took over the District of Columbia’s Office of Public Buildings and Grounds.
During the next two decades, he oversaw such major building projects as the Washington Monument,
the State, War, and Navy Building (now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building), and the Library of Congress.
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