Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Cassilis, Henry M. 1827 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

HENRY M. CASSILIS, an extensive and prominent farmer near Black's, in Yolo
County, was born October, 1827, in Edinburg, Scotland, and was but six weeks old
when his parents emigrated with him to New Brunswick, North America. Their names
were John O. and Mary (McPherson) Cassilis, and they were both natives of
Edinburg. They died in St. John, New Brunswick, the father in 1852 and the
mother in 1855. Of their fourteen children, only two are now living. In 1847 Mr.
Cassilis, the subject of this sketch, settled in Rushville, Illinois, engaging
in the cooper trade. In 1850 he came with ox teams to California, stopping first
in Nevada, where he prospected for about three months; in 1852-'54 he was in
Sacramento, employed at his trade, and in the meantime he took up a piece of
land in Yolo County, near where he is now a resident and occupied it until 1887.
At that time his wife's father died, leaving her 120 acres, and they moved upon
it. It is a very beautiful home. Altogether they own 422 acres of very fine
land, near Black's.

  Mr. Cassilis was married October 4, 1855, in the house where he now lives, to
Miss Sarah E. Barnes, the daughter of one of the old farmers of this State,
Silas P. Barnes, so well known among the old settlers. Her mother, whose maiden
name was Olive A. Chapman, was born in Maine. Mr. Barnes, a native of New
Hampshire, had the faculty of making money. At the age of eighteen years he went
to Massachusetts and was engaged on the wharf selling coal, wood and hay; in
1851 he came across the plains to California, stopping in Salt Lake City two
years and settling upon this place, now occupied by Mr. Cassilis, just
mentioned. He died April 11, 1888. Mrs. Barnes died in Sacramento, in April,
1855. Mr. and Mrs. Cassilis have had eight children: Mary O., born July 9, 1856,
now the wife of George W. Bailey; Maria P., born September 28,1857, married
Walter S. Taylor and has since deceased; Silas O., born April 28, 1859, and
married Miss Emma Dill; Laura J., born August 3,1863, the wife of Elmer
Robinson; Annie, born August 18,1866; Agnes, born August 18, 1866, now the wife
of William Honx; Henry M., born February 22, 1869; and William W., February 11,
1871.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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