By 1919 William P. Casey and others had established the Router Manufacturing Co. of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and were making a small router adapted for removing putty from window glazing. They were soon making a range of handheld electric routers and circular saws. They also made a dado and rabbeting machine consisting of a flat base mounted to the side of a router with integral gearbox.

In 1927 or '28 the company name changed to the Casey Manufacturing Co., with William P. Casey still as president. The company seems to have got into some difficulty during the early 1930s but was able to continue doing business. Casey died in 1947 and was succeeded as company president by E. G. Race, who had been with the company nearly from the beginning. Race would remain president until his death in 1966 at age 81.

The company continued into the 1980s and then in 1986 reorganized as Casey Saw, Inc. We have seen a 2-inch vertical belt grinder made by this firm, which survived under that name until about 2000.

Information Sources

• 1919-07-12 Electrical World page 105, article on Router Manufacturing Company's "Motor-Driven Portable Putty Router" for use in replacing window glass.
• 1922 Annual Report of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, in a list of "Exhibitors in the Machinery Department" at the 1922 State Fair: "Router Manufacturing Co., The, Oshkosh, Wis., Casey electric hand saw."
• 1927 Trade Names page 14: "Casey Saws—Reuter [sic] Manufacturing Co., Oshkosh, Wis."
• 1928 "Engineers": Listing the Engineers of Corporations... page 182.

  Casey Mfg. Co., Inc.
  (Casey electric universal hand saw, hand tools, routers, and plain shapers, table saws, vertical jointer, dowel forming machine, hand carving tool)
  Gen. Offices: Oshkosh Wis.
  Plant: Oshkosh, Wis.
  Those listed below are located at the Oshkosh Plant.
  Pres., Wm. P. Casey
  V. Pres., F. P. Morrissey
  Sec., E. G. Race
  Gen. Supt., K. R. Popp
  Sales Mgr., R. P. Morrissey
  Pur. Agt., E. G. Race
  Supt. Mach. Shop, W. F. Killian

• 1929 issue of Electrical Installation Record (Volume 46, page 250) lists Casey Mfg. Co., Oshkosh, Wis.
• 1932 Annual Report of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Securities Division, Appendix IV, Schedule of Permits, Surrendered, Cancelled, Suspended, and Reinstated between July 1, 1931, and July 1, 1932, in the list of Permits Suspended: "Casey Mfg. Co., Inc. (formerly Router Mfg. Co.)** .. Madison, Wis. .. 5-12-32". The "**" means "Suspended without prejudice."
• 1937 The National Electrical Contractor (Volume 36, page 41) lists Casey Mfg. Co., Oshkosh, Wisc.
• 1948 issue of Steel (Volume 122, page 66).

  Casey Mfg. Co., Oshkosh, Wis., has elected E. G. Race as president of the firm to succeed the late William P. Casey. Mr. Race formerly served as vice president. Michael Duggan has been elected to the board of directors to take the position vacated by Mr. Casey.

• 1968 issue of Industrial Woodworking (Volumes 20-21, page 15) lists Casey Mfg. Co., Inc., 536 Bay Shore Dr., Oshkosh, Wis. 54901.
• Findagrave.com entry for William Joseph Patrick Casey (1891-1947). His grave, which is in Oshkosh, is marked "Casey / William P." Entries for Edwin George Race (1881-1963), Francis Patrick Morrissey (1866-1947), Karl Robert Popp (1900-1978), William Frederick Killian (1886-1965).
• We saw a Model 102 "Do-It Grindr" made by Casey Saw Inc. in an YouTube video in outsidescrewball's channel.
• The State of Wisconsin database of incorporations shows that Casey Saw, Inc., was incorporated on April 8, 1986 and its current status is "dissolved".