Leonard Cashman Biography

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	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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CASHMAN, LEONARD, was born in Clinton county, N. Y., February 27, 1858.  When 
fifteen years of age he commenced railroading, but two years later engaged in 
carpenter work, and at twenty years of age went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and 
learned the mill-wright's trade. October 22, 1880, he came to Sioux Falls, and 
worked for about two years at the Queen Bee mill.  The next seven years he had a 
carpenter shop in Sioux Falls, and carried on a farm, and since then has been 
engaged as a traveling salesman and collector.  Mr. Cashman is an active, 
enterprising citizen.