Casson, Charles

CASSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/11/2007 at 22:40:43

Charles Casson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.231, Silver Creek Twp.)
Charles Casson, farmer, P. O. Living Spring. Mr. Casson, is a native of Yorkshire, Eng., born in 1826. When he was eleven years old, he went into a woolen mill, where they made the finest woolen goods, and continued to work int he same mill till 1869, where he quit and came to America, giving himself only about a week to prepare from the time he left the mill till he started. He was married, in 1851, to Miss Eliza Wood; she was born in the same shire. They brought nine children with them to America, and one was born since coming, but the oldest son died in Iowa; five sons and four daughters still living. ONe son married. When he came to America, he settled first in Logan County, Ill., where he remained one year; then went to Fayette County, Ill., but was there only two years, when he returned to Logan County, and made that his home till he came to his present farm in 1877, but had bought it in 1875. His farm consists of 160 acres. It was raw land when he bought it, and paid $10 per acre. Since coming on to it he has been steadily improving; now it is all in cultivation. Corn-raising is most of his farming, and then feeding part of the time. Mr. Casson's object in coming here was to make a home which should be his own, and he has succeeded. He is Republican in politics. He also has 160 acres in Wayne County, Neb.