Edward J. Cashin (1927– September 8, 2007) was an American

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. He was

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of the Center for the Study of Georgia History at

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. Cashin was the author of many books and numerous articles on the history of Georgia, especially Augusta, and the

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frontier in the 18th century. He was a native son of Augusta, Georgia, where he graduated from Boys Catholic High School in 1945. He was a graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY., in 1952. He received his M.A. from Fordham University in New York. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Fordham in 1962. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “Thomas E. Watson and the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia.” He was appointed Academic Vice-President of Marist College in 1963, while continuing teaching in the History Department there. Dr. Cashin returned to his hometown as associate history professor at Augusta College (now

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) in 1969. He was named a full professor in 1972. He became chairman of the department of history in 1975. He retired from

in 1996 as professor emeritus. He then founded and became director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History at Augusta State University. Besides his popularity as a classroom professor, Dr. Cashin was well known for his extensive research, knowledge and historical writings. Through his biographies of people such as Scottish trader Lachlan McGillivray, "King's Ranger" Thomas Brown, and numerous other important figures, Dr. Cashin provided narratives which preserved knowledge of the central roles they had in Georgia's history. Dr. Cashin was not just a talented historian who loved Georgia history. He was highly respected by students, colleagues and friends. He epitomized the expression "a gentleman and a scholar." Through his leadership and involvement in many historical activities and organizations, he was a major figure in preserving the region's history. Cashin died on Saturday, September 8, 2007, in a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He had collapsed two days earlier while researching his next book.

Works

* 1975
Augusta and the American Revolution: Events in the Georgia Back Country 1773-1783
' (with Heard Robertson) * 1976
A History of Augusta College
' (with Helen Callahan) * 1978 ''An Informal History of Augusta'' * 1980 ''The Story of Augusta'' * 1985 ''The Quest: A History Of Public Education In Richmond County, Georgia'' * 1986
Colonial Augusta: "Key of the Indian Countrey"
' (editor) * 1987 ''The Story of Sacred Heart'' * 1989

' * 1992 ''Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier'' * 1994 ''Governor Henry Ellis and the Transformation of British North America'' * 1994 ''A Wilderness Still the Cradle of Nature: Frontier Georgia'' * 1995 ''Old Springfield: Race and Religion in Augusta, Georgia'' * 1995 ''Setting Out to Begin a New World: Colonial Georgia, A Documentary History'' * 2000
William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier
' * 2001 ''General Sherman's Girl Friend and Other Stories About Augusta'' (illustrated by Jeb Cashin) * 2001 ''Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia'' (editor, with Glenn T. Eskew) * 2001 ''Beloved Bethesda: A History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys'' * 2003 ''From Balloons to Blue Angels: The story of Aviation in Augusta, Georgia'' * 2009

' (posthumous publication)

Awards

* Governor's Award from the Georgia Humanities Council * 1997 Hugh McCall Award from the Georgia Association of Historians * 1992 Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award of the Georgia Historical Society, for ''Lachlan McGillivray'' * 1990 Fraunces Tavern Book Award of the American Revolution Round Table, for ''The King's Ranger''

External links

Biographical entry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cashin, Edward J. 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Writers from Augusta, Georgia 1927 births 2007 deaths Place of birth missing Marist College alumni Fordham University alumni Georgia Regents University faculty American male non-fiction writers Historians from Georgia (U.S. state)