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James E. Casey (March 29, 1888 – June 6, 1983) was an American businessman, known for being the founder of the American Messenger Company, today known as UPS. In 1907, 19-year-old James Casey founded the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington. He served as president, CEO and chairman. Claude Ryan was his partner and his messengers were his brother George and other teenagers. His motto was "best service and lowest rates". Deliveries were made on foot, bicycle, or motorcycle. He died on June 6, 1983, in a hospital-nursing home in Seattle and his grave is at the mausoleum of the Holyrood Catholic Cemetery in Shoreline, Washington. Background Casey was born in Pickhandle Gulch near Candelaria, Nevada, the son of Irish immigrants. He consistently gave credit to his mother, Annie E. Casey, for holding their family together after Jim's father died. As a youngster delivering packages on the Seattle streets, Jim Casey was exposed to the excesses of a bustling city in the midst of the Klondike Gold Rush. He credited the guidance of a strong mother and support of his family with keeping him grounded. On August 28, 1907, he founded the American Messenger Company with Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100 in debt. Most deliveries at this time were made on foot and bicycles were used for longer trips. In 1913, the American Messenger Company agreed to merge with Evert McCabe's Motorcycle Messengers. Merchants Parcel Delivery was formed and focused now on packages. Their first delivery car was a 1913 Ford Model T. In 1919, the company expanded beyond Seattle and changed its name to United Parcel Service (UPS). The successful businessman sought ways to help those who lacked the family life he found to be so crucial. With his brothers George and Harry and his sister Marguerite, Mr. Casey created Casey Family Programs in 1966 to help children who were unable to live with their birth parents—giving them stability and an opportunity to grow to responsible adulthood. By the time of his death, Mr. Casey left three legacies: UPS, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Casey Family Programs. Casey was posthumously inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Fame (in 2002) and the Logistics Hall of Fame (in 2016). References External links U.S. Department of Labor - Labor Hall of Fame - James E. Casey Jim Casey Youth. Discover the James Casey popular books. Find the top 100 most popular James Casey books.
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Handstands In The Dark
Janey GodleyBrought up amid nearDickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found he...
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Paradise Lust
Kit McCannEverywhere you look, for heaven's sake, there are ladies. Never mind for heaven's sake, this is heaven. It is the Garden of Eden, where you are allowed to eat all the apples you wa...
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The Girls Inside
NJ MackayA gripping, compelling psychological thriller about a cult, a fire, and the dark secrets that four young girls have carried with them but can no longer keep buried...Blue grew up i...
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Slingshot
James CaseyWhen Mac McKenzie, a veteran P.I. from the west coast is summoned to join forces with his longtime friend and FBI agent, Mark Wilson to help solve the illegal exportation of guns, ...
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Travels With Casey
Benoit Denizet-LewisA New York Times bestseller and People “Book of the Week”: This hilarious, charming road trip through canineloving America is “essential reading for dog lovers and armchair travele...
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The CIA
Hugh WilfordA celebrated historian of US intelligence uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the ...
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The Magic In Your Hands
Brian SnellgroveIn this book Brian Snellgrove will provide you with a method for seeing and tuning into other peoples' auras their problems, their needs and understanding them, without a requirem...
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Until the Darkness Comes
Kevin BrooksPI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go. But within hours he stumbles across the dead body of ...
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The Magnificent Sons
Justin MyersPreorder the new sharp, hilarious Justin Myers novel, LEADING MAN, now!'Funny, beautifully observed and moving' Adam KayTwo brothers. Two different journeys. The same hope of a mag...
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The Doll Princess
Tom BennWinner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year AwardIt's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two ...
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The Driftwood Girls
Mark Douglas-HomeTWO MISSING WOMEN. AN OCEAN FULL OF SECRETS . . .'A firstclass mystery perplexing and at times disturbing' i'Intelligence, imagination and lucid writing' The TimesKate and Flora h...
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Right on the Money
Doug CaseyYour favorite financial contrarian spreads the wealth in interviews on forty separate topics Investment guru Doug Casey made headlines with the financial approach he advocated in ...
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The Finest Hours
Michael J. Tougias & Casey ShermanThe story behind the major motion picture from Disneystarring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleckwritten by a recognized master of the genre“a blockbuster account of tragedy a...
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The Sign of the Devil
Oscar de MurielTHE FINAL FREY & McGRAY MYSTERYAll will be revealed... The Devil Has Come to Edinburgh...An illfated graverobbery unearths a corpse with a most disturbing symbol on it. When...
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The Witch of New York
Alex HortisBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthonybefore even Lizzie Bordenthere was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation...
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The Longest Goodbye
Mari HannahLIES COST LIVESTHE BRAND NEW KATE DANIELS THRILLERThree years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice.Now the prime suspects have bee...
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Glacier Lake
James CaseyWhen state marshal Tom Riggins discovers the body of a young American Indian girl in a remote highcountry cabin at Glacier Lake, the clues are few, but sufficient. Tom is led to th...