Casper Lincoln Himes
Casper Lincoln Himes was born in Pennsylvania about 1865, and his son's birth record gives his birthplace as Philadelphia. His parents were Martin Himes and Amanda Semlear. The family moved to Brooklyn while he was a small boy. His brother Robert was born in Pennsylvania about 1868 and his brother George in New York about 1870.
In June 1880 the family was living in Brooklyn. His father Martin was 37 and his mother Amanda 38. Casper was 15 and already at work in a glue factory. His brothers Robert, 12, and George, 10, and his little sisters Carry, 7, Martie, 4, and Ida, 1, were at home. A 21-year-old Ida Himes, born in Pennsylvania, lived with them too.
On 22 February 1892, at 26, Casper married Marion L. W. Rosario in Brooklyn. She was 21, the daughter of Joseph S. Rosario and Sarah M. Batting. Their first child, Robert Harrison Himes, was born in Brooklyn that October. Marion followed in 1900, Reginald Roosevelt in 1903 and Laura May in 1905. Casper appears in the Brooklyn city directories through the 1890s.
In Brooklyn Casper was in the hotel business. In 1906 he brought the family out to Lynbrook, on the south shore of Long Island in Nassau County, and went on keeping hotels there. His best known was the Cozy Corner Hotel at the Five Corners, where five roads meet in the middle of the village. The corner had been a feed store and then a roadhouse; Casper bought the business from William Karn, the village tax collector. A photograph of its front porch survives. The sign over the door reads "CASS. HIMES." Above it hang the boards of Otto Huber, a Brooklyn brewery, whose beer he served. Four men in aprons and work clothes stand on the porch.
In October 1914 he bought out the hotel business of George Abrams on Atlantic Avenue, right beside the railroad tracks. He had it renovated and put his son Robert, then 21, in charge of it. Later he sold the Five Corners business to Charles A. Mincho, and about 1922 the old building was gutted and turned into stores and offices.
On a Saturday night in March 1926 Casper, then about 60, was riding in a car that hit a bus at Scranton Avenue and Broadway in Lynbrook. He came away with scalp wounds. The driver, a Valley Stream woman, was arrested in her hospital bed. On 21 February 1927 he and Marion held a party at home for their 35th wedding anniversary, with all their children there.
Casper belonged to three fraternal orders: Cambridge Lodge No. 662 of the Freemasons, Queensboro Lodge No. 878 of the Elks, and Long Island Council No. 173 of the Royal Arcanum, a fraternal life insurance society.
Three weeks after the anniversary, on 13 March 1927, he died in the Nassau County Hospital, at about 61. His death notice called him the "beloved husband of Marion Rosario Himes." The funeral was held at his home, 123 Atlantic Avenue in Lynbrook, on the Wednesday evening, and all three of his lodges were invited. He was buried the next afternoon in Cypress Hills Cemetery, in the family lot, Section 6, Lot 761.
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Cite: Heirology, "Casper Lincoln Himes (1865-1927)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/casper-lincoln-himes-1865-1927-fe346b.