A Documentary History of Het (the) Nederdeutsche Gemeente/John Cashow

by Henry Augustus Stoutenburgh

John Cashow, of Mill Neck, son of John Kirk Cashow and Elizabeth Underhill, baptized December 30, 1817; baptized September 27, 1818, in Wolver Hollow; died September 19, 1899, at Mill Neck; married Hester Craig. Ex-Assemblyman John Cashow died at his home in Mill Neck. He was the oldest Freemason in Brooklyn, being a member of Hohenlinden Lodge No. 56, and of Nassau Chapter, F.A.M. He was born at Brookville, Long Island, December 30, 1817, and attended the district school until nearly attaining his majority. He removed to Brooklyn in 1835, where he became prominently identified with politics. He was an alderman for five years, and was chairman of the committee which recommended the resolution providing for the removal of the remains of the martyrs of the British prison-ships to their last resting-place. He was appointed harbor master of the Port of New York by Governor John Alsop King, reappointed by Governor Edwin Denison Morgan, and also by Governor Reuben Eaton Fenton. Mr. Cashow had acted with the Republican party until the campaign of 1872, when he abandoned that party and followed Horace Greeley and the liberal party. In 1880 he was chosen supervisor of the town of Oyster Bay, a position he held for three years. In 1877 he represented the First Assembly District of this county in the State Legislature. He was for many years connected with the Farragut Fire Insurance Company of Manhattan. Mr. Cashow was a volunteer fireman, the old Cashow Hose Company in Brooklyn being named after him, and with which company he was many years identified.

Issue:

• Thomas U. Cashow, died [following] the War of the Rebellion.
• John Craig Cashow.
• Phebe Cashow.