Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CASSODAY, JOHN B. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

JOHN B. CASSODAY, chief justice, was born in Herkimer county,
N. Y., July 7, 1830; removed with his widowed mother to Tioga
county, Pa., three years later. His early studies were pursued
in the common schools, at the academies in Wellsboro and
Knoxville, Pa., and two years at the Alfred academy, where he
graduated. He spent one year at the Michigan University and
then attended the Albany law school; afterward reading in a
law office in Wellsboro, Pa. In July, 1857, he settled in
Janesville, Wis., and continued actively in practice until
called to the supreme bench; was member of the assembly in
1865, and again in l877, when he was elected speaker of that
body. In 1880, Nov. 11, he was appointed by Gov. William E.
Smith, as associate justice of the supreme court, a vacancy
having been caused by the promotion of Associate Justice Cole
to the chief justiceship to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan. He was elected
associate justice in April, 1881, and again in April, 1889,
and again in 1899, and is a professor in the College of Law,
University of Wisconsin, lecturing on constitutional law. He
is the author of "Cassoday on Wills," a law text book
published in 1893. He became chief justice upon the death of
Justice Orton in July, 1895, by virtue of his seniority in
service, and has continued such ever since.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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