JOHN F. REESMAN
John F. Reesman, one of the prominent men of Cass county, is a native of Clinton county, Pennsylvania, and was born on the 21st of January, 1821. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, and in 1853 he removed to Ogle county, Illinois, where he remained about two years, when he went back to Pennsylvania, and there, remained about five years, when he came to Carroll county, Illinois. He then went to Stephenson county, and in 1871 he came to Cass county, and settled in Atlantic township, where he bought four hundred and thirty-five acres of good land, of John Keyes, but when surveyed lacked twenty acres, which he lost. He raises some of the finest cattle in the county. He has some full blood Shorthorn cattle, and Poland China hogs. He was married on the 13th of September, 1844, to Christina Reber, a native of Pennsylvania. They have two children living--Aaron A. and Benjamin F. Both married. They had four children who died in infancy. Mr. Reesman's father died in 1876, in Pennsylvania, and is buried in Hamburg, Clinton county. His mother died in 1844 and is buried in the same grave yard at Hamburg.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 844.
