Wasson, John C. S.

WASSON

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 22:53:47

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.707

WASSON, JOHN C. S., Richland Township, hotel and post-office, Hartford; is a native of Highland county, Ohio; born in 1819, and was raised in that State, and made it his home till he came to this county and settled at Hartford, in in 1854, and since that time has been a permanent resident; in 1855 he engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed up to 1876, except one year that he was in the late war; he enlisted in Co. B, Thirty-fourth Iowa Volunteers, Aug. 12, 1862; he made up the company, and upon its organization was made First Lieutenant, which position he held till August, 1863, when he was discharged on account of disability; he was married in Ohio, in 1845, to Miss Julia A. Spry, of that State; they have a family of five children living: James R. (Paymaster in the United States Army in Texas), Anna E. (wife of M. Barkhurst), Minnie J., George W. (Paymaster's Clerk in the U. S. Army in Texas), and Bertrand; his son James R. is a graduate of West Point, and was sent to Japan by the Government, and while there was in the Japanese army two years, and also Professor of Engineering in a college in Yeddo. Mr. Wasson was appointed Postmaster under Buchanan in 1857, and has held the office since, except six years.