Charles Luke Cassin (1846-1878) was the grandson of Commodore Stephen Cassin, U.S.Navy, and worked as a U.S. Navy physician. From 1869 he also served as a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Physical description

Ca. 70 items and 11 volumes.

Naval History Note

The papers of a postbellum U.S. Navy Physician.

Early American History Note

The Cassin Collection is heavily focused on Charles Luke Cassin's correspondence in the late nineteenth century. Charles Cassin was a physician in the U.S. Navy in the late-nineteenth century. His family's roots date to the colonial era. There are approximately seven documents from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, however. This portion of the collection includes three legal documents from colonial Pennsylvania that were likely handed down through the family: one is a will for Aaron Thompson dated 1745, another is an indenture from 1758, and another is a copy of a court decision in Berks County in 1774. There are two letters from James Mullins to Eliza Cassin relating to their past affairs and children. Finally, there are official documents relating to Joseph Cassin, Charles Luke's father, including a commission in the U.S. Navy signed by James Madison.

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

• Diaries.
• Family Correspondence
• Lecture notes.
• Legal Records
• Military Records
• Official Government Documents and Records
• Poems.
• Wills.

• United States - Armed Forces - Medical personnel
• United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

• Marriage and Family Life
• Medicine -- United States.
• Military History
• Trust indentures.