John Piersol McCaskey

Background

Mccaskey, John Piersol was born on October 9, 1837 in near Gordonville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Margaret Eckert (Piersol) M.

Education

Student Boys’ High School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Career

He served as the 23rd Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1907 to 1911. McCaskey is most remembered in the field of education and J. P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster is named in his honor. McCaskey began teaching in the Boys" High School in 1855, with the exception of one year 1857-1858, most of which he spent in the old Evening Express printing office, studying the printing process.

He was a high school principal for fifty years.

McCaskey was born on a farm near Gordonville, Pennsylvania, on October 9, 1837. They attended services regularly at both churches.He learned to read at an early age before going to the old Zook schoolhouse, and was required to read daily and often aloud from the Bible.

By the time he was ten or eleven, he left home for the Oak Hill Academy, and later attended school in Lancaster. He enrolled at the Boys" High School in 1850.

In 1860, McCaskey was married to Ellen Margaret Chase in Bath, New New York

The couple had seven children. McCaskey is a published song writer and introduced Arbor Day to Pennsylvania. J. P. McCaskey died on September 19, 1937, aged 99.

He is interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Achievements

• John Piersol Mccaskey has been listed as a noteworthy mayor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

McCaskey was a member of the Republican Party.

Connections

Married Ellen Margaret Chase, August 8, 1860.

Father:

William M.

Mother:

Margaret Eckert (Piersol) M.

Spouse:

Ellen Margaret Chase