Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Vasser, William Edward 1855 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM EDWARD VASSER, son of Richard W. and Elizabeth B. (Jones) Yasser,
natives of Virginia and North Carolina, respectively, was born March 10, 1855.
He was educated at the Military Institute, Lexington, Va., and at the University
of Virginia, graduating from the first in 1875, and from the latter in 1876. In
1878, he made a tour of Europe, for the purpose  of observation and study,
returned to Athens, and for the succeeding three years, turned his attention to
farming.

    During the years of 1882-3, Mr. Vasser conducted the editorial columns of
the Alabama Courier, and in 1886, the people of the county, chose him as against
six competitors to represent them in the lower house of the State Legislature,
and it is worthy of remark that at the primary election, he received a decided
majority of the entire vote east. At the general election, there was no
opposition to Mr. Vasser. As a member of the Legislature, he was chairman of the
Committee on Education, and an active member of the Committee on Public Roads
and Highways. In the first named committee, and before the House, he took a
prominent stand in favor of the Normal School system, and maintained it
successfully against the combined opposition of its enemies, and it is to his
efforts that the people of Alabama are indebted for the improvement and increase
of the Normal School privileges, if not indeed its present existence. It was his
committee that introduced the law, compelling county superintendents to cover
public money coming into their hands, into the State Treasury, instead of
disbursing it as they had hitherto done. As under the old system, defalcations
had been for many years more or less frequent, a change in the law is at once
recognized as salutary. It was his committee that separated the Deaf and Dumb
from the Blind Institution, established different schools for them, and procured
separate appropriations for each institution. He also advocated successfully an
appropriation for the Auburn Polytechnic School.

    Mr. Vasser is a cultured, educated gentleman, with a decidedly literary cast
of mind. His eulogy in verse on the distinguished Houston, was quoted by
Congressman Williams in his eulogy upon the dead Senator before the United
States House of Representatives, and his volume of poems entitled "Flower Myths
and other Poems" (1884) has attracted much favorable comment from literary
critics in almost every State in the Union, and many of his poems have been
published and republished by the leading papers of the country.


Additional Comments:
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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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