[1] He died on June 6, 1983, in a hospital-nursing home in Seattle[2] and his grave is at the mausoleum of the Holyrood Catholic Cemetery in Shoreline, Washington.

[4] He consistently gave credit to his mother, Annie E. Casey, for holding their family together after Jim's father died.

As a youngster delivering packages on the Seattle streets, Jim Casey was exposed to the excesses of a bustling city in the midst of the Klondike Gold Rush[citation needed].

On August 28, 1907, he founded the American Messenger Company with Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100 in debt.

Their first delivery car was a 1913 Ford Model T.[1] In 1919, the company expanded beyond Seattle and changed its name to United Parcel Service (UPS).