Case family photographs (PSNCA.H.032)

Muriel Rogers Case (1921-2012) was a member of the Hunter House Activities Committee. She lived in the Philip Stevens House on Thames Street, and at one time owned the adjoining property to the north, the John Stevens House

Daughter of Daniel Rogers Case (1888-1954) and Ethel Westman Case (1898-1993), she was the niece of Helena de St. Prie Case Connal-Rowan (1886-1975). Muriel’s siblings were Ethel Ludlow Case (1923-1968) and Rogers Case (1928-1993).

Helena Case Connal-Rowan loaned and then donated a suite of furniture and portraits for display at Hunter House in the 1960s-1970s. She married Lt. George Francis Connal-Rowan (1885-1960) of the estate Meiklewood in Gargunnock, Scotland.

The Rogers Case family was descended from U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Augustus Ludlow Case (1812-1893) and Anna Rogers Case (1824-1891). Admiral Case was part of the Wilkes Expedition (1847-1832), which explored and surveyed the Pacific and Antarctic Oceans, and the Paraguay Expedition (1859). He also served in the Mexican-American War and as fleet captain of the Union’s North Atlantic Blocking Squadron in the American Civil War. In 1936, Muriel, at the age of 14, christened the destroyer Case named after her great-great-grandfather at the Charlestown navy yard in Massachusetts.