Harry Casey
Name: Harry Casey
Alias: The Fighting Shamrock
Birth Name: Harry Jewell
Hometown: West Seattle, Washington, USA
Birthplace: Olney, Illinois, USA
Died: 1975-07-03 (Age:82)
Height: 175cm
Pro Boxer: Record
The March 28, 1916 Tacoma Daily News tells of how Seattle promoter Dan Salt gave Harry Jewell the Harry Casey name. The April 4, 1919 Tacoma News Tribune reminds us of the Harry Casey moniker, while mentioning that Jewell had married a French woman in France. He was then serving in the American Expeditionary Forces at the time, with the 209th police. (Photo of Casey in 1964. )
According to the U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 database on Ancestry.com., one Harry Jewell was born in Olney, Illinois on February 10, 1893. At the time of his registration, he was work for The Shell Oil Company in Seattle, Washington. Harry was 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighed 145 pounds and had a cauliflower left ear.
According to the Washington, Death Index, 1940-2014 database on Ancestry.com, one Harry Jewell, 82 years of age, died in Seattle, Washington on July 3, 1975. At the time of his death, he was a resident of Seattle.