Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Cassel, John A. 1821 - 
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JOHN A. CASSEL, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. La Crosse; was born in France, in 1821; 
emigrated to the United States in 1839, and landed at Savanna, Ga., where he 
stopped about nine months, when he went to Florida and worked for the 
Government for about fifteen months. He then returned to Savanna, and soon 
after sailed for New York, where he stopped about three months. Then he went 
to Pottsville, Penn., and engaged in mining until 1844; he then went to 
Maryland, and followed the same business near Cumberland. In 1845, he was 
married to Mary Stark, born in Germany, in 1827, and in 1851 he removed with 
his family to Shelby Co., Ohio, where he purchased 80 acres of land and 
commenced farming, and followed the same for three years, when he tired of 
farming and again returned to Maryland, where he worked in the mines for about 
two years; but as his health would not permit him to follow mining, he 
concluded to go West. And so, in the fall of 1856, he came to Wisconsin and 
settled in La Crosse County. In 1863, he purchased part of his present farm, 
which contains 340 acres, much of which is well improved and has good 
buildings. Mr. Cassel has held various town and school offices, and is a 
Democrat in politics. The children are Jacob, Mary, John A., William H., 
Gustave H., and Walter G.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 854.

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