Taylor County IA Archives Biographies.....Cass, Ed E. 1853 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

ED E. CASS is the efficient and well known cashier of the Bedford Bank, of
Bedford, Iowa. The circumstances attending upon the childhood of an individual
and the manner in which he is reared do not always shape his future, nor do they
emphasize it to the extent that natural ability, education and experience
invariably do. To form an estimate of his success it is necessary to know what
he has accomplished, and success is not measured by the heights which a man
holds, but the depths from which he started. One who begins life's journey with
the aid that wealth and influential friends can bring deserves not the credit
that is due one who must depend entirely upon his own efforts. Of the latter
class, Mr. Cass is a representative.

   He was born in Wiltshire, England, January 18, 1853, and is a son of Neville
and Maria (Boulton) Cass. The father was a farmer by occupation, and in the
family were six children, of whom our subject is the eldest, and the only one
who has left the mother country. He acquired a liberal education in the land of
his birth, and entered upon his business career there as a clerk; but, not
liking the situation, he resolved to come to the United States, seeking a
broader field of labor in the New World. He took passage on a White Star
steamer, Scandanavia, landed at Portland, Maine, in 1871, and went direct to
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he secured a clerkship in a dry-goods
establishment, and continued for three years.

   The year 1874 was that in which Mr. Cass arrived in Bedford. He came to the
West in company with some acquaintances and has since remained in Taylor county.
During the first two years after his arrival, he was engaged in farming five
miles north of the city, and then put aside agricultural pursuits to enter the
service of F. W. Van Linda, a grocer in Bedford, with whom he continued for a
year. He was next employed in the Bedford Mill as exchange man and bookkeeper,
serving in that capacity for three years, after which he spent a similar period
with J. M. Thompson, a general merchant. On the 1st of October, 1887, began his
connection with the Bank of Bedford as bookkeeper, and on the 1st of June, 1891,
he was promoted to the responsible position of cashier.

   On the 23d of October, 1879, in Taylor county, Mr. Cass was joined in wedlock
with Miss Sarah J. Gould, a daughter of William and Mary E. (Price) Gould, both
of whom were natives of Prince Edward's island. Three of the six children of the
Gould family reside in Taylor county, where they located in 1866. Mr. and Mrs.
Cass have six children : William G., aged fifteen; Helen, aged thirteen; Arthur,
aged eleven; Harrison, eight years of age; Nina, five years old; and Mary, a
little maiden of three summers.

   In his political views, Mr. Cass is a Republican and has frequently served as
delegate to the conventions of his party. He was largely instrumental in
organizing the Bedford Fire Company, served as its secretary, afterward as
president, and was a charter member of the Bedford Light Infantry, and its First
Sergeant. He filled the office of City Recorder for three years, and is at the
present time the custodian of the city's funds. During his connection with the
bank and his residence in Taylor county, Mr. Cass won the utmost confidence of
those with whom he has come in contact by his integrity and sound judgment. He
is a courteous and affable gentleman, and his pleasant and affable manner has
won him a host of warm friends. Socially he is connected with the Knights of
Pythias and I. O. O. F.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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