JOHN CASEY

CASEY

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 18:46:04

JOHN CASEY, farmer and stock-raiser, section 14, Mercer township, was born in Butler county, Ohio, April 6, 1837, the older of two children of Adam and Rachel (Cook) Casey. The former was a native of Germany and came to this country when a young man; he located in Ohio, where he married the above, who was a native of Ohio and of English and German descent. In 1843 the family removed to the Territory of Iowa, and when our subject was ten years of age his father died and the family returned to Ohio, and he worked out on a farm until he was nineteen years old. In 1856 he and his mother again came to Iowa and settled on the lands his father had previously entered, where he followed farming until he came to Adams county. He was married June 20, 1861, to Miss Catherine Yakle, who was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and a daughter of Luke and Ann Eliza (Frink) Yakle, who came from Germany about the year 1835, and first settled in Virginia, then removed to Butler county, Ohio, and in 1844 came to Henry county, Iowa. Here Mr. Yakle passed the balance of his days, and his widow still resides here. In May, 1874, Mr. Casey removed to Adams county and purchased 160 acres of wild land, which he improved, and followed general farming until 1885, when he turned his attention to the growing and improving of the variety of potatoes and has since made a specialty of that line, from which be has gained a wide reputation in this and adjoining States.

Mr. and Mrs. Casey are the parents of six children: Alice J., the wife of M. J. Riley; Jonathan E., Franklin A., Leveright L., Laura R. and Charles B. Mrs. Casey is a member of the Baptist Church. Politically Mr. Casey is a Republican.