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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Cassiday Samuel. Was born April 12, 1830, near Reedsburgh, Wayne county, Ohio.
Of his grand-parents three were natives of the north of Ireland, and the fourth
a native of Pennsylvania. His father, John Cassiday, was a native of Washington
county, Pennsylvania, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah McGee, a native of
Jefferson county, Ohio. In 1841, when eleven years of age, he moved with his
parents overland, to the then Territory of Iowa, settling near Libertyville,
Jefferson county, and within fifteen miles of the boundary between government
and the hunting grounds of the Sac and Fox Indians. From this time until 1847 he
worked upon the farm nine months out of the year, receiving the benefit of such
education as the rude log school-house of the frontier afforded during the
winter months. In 1847 he entered the office of the Desmoines Valley Whig,
published at Keosauqua, to learn the printer's trade. Having completed his
apprenticeship the winter of 1849-50, he filled the position of assistant
teacher in a private Academy at Oskaloosa. From that place he started overland
the spring of 1850, and arrived at Sacramento in the early part of September.
From the time of his arrival in California up to the spring of 1854 he was
engaged in various mining operations, mostly in the neighborhood of Rough and
Ready, Nevada county, and Parks and Long Bars, Yuba county. In 1854 he came to
Sonoma county, and from that time until 1861 was engaged in farming, dairying,
and stock raising. In 1861 he embarked in journalism as one of the editors and
proprietors of the Petaluma Argus. In 1866 he assumed the entire proprietorship
of that journal which he retained until 1869 when he sold that establishment to
H. L. Weston Esq., and leasing over eleven thousand acres of land in Monterey
county, for a term of years, moved to that portion of the State where for ten
years he followed the varied pursuits of farming, sheep-raising, and general
real estate business. With the exception of a brief residence at Gilroy, Santa
Clara county, he resided most of this time at Salinas City. In 1868 he passed an
examination and was admitted to the practice of law in the District Court of the
twentieth Judicial District. In the Spring of 1879 he returned to Petaluma, and
resumed his connection with the Petaluma Argus. In 1864 Mr. Cassiday was united
in marriage with Miss Cynthia Francis Denman, a native of Sullivan county, New
York. Her father's name was William Denman, a native of England, and her
mother's maiden name was Nancy Curry, a native of New York. He has five
children; the oldest, Sarah Francis, born June 18, 1866; the second, Elizabeth
Louisa, born May 29, 1868: the third, Benjamin Franklin, born January 16, 1870;
the fourth, Samuel Denman, born August 14, 1873; and the fifth, Minnie Belle,
born May 2, 1875, As a journalist Mr. C. ranks well up among the most able and
versatile writers on the Pacific Coast. In this he but verifies the truth of the
saying, that "the printing office is the poor boy's College;" for to the "art
preservative," and not to the school-room is he mainly indebted for his
acquirements.

Additional Comments:
Petaluma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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