Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Cassoday, John B. 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
JOHN B. CASSODAY, chief justice, was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 7, 
1830; removed with his widowed mother to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, three 
years later. His early studies were pursued in the common schools, at the 
academies in Wellsboro and Knoxville, Pennsylvania, 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; afterwards reading in a law office in 
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. In July, 1857, he settled in Janesville, Wisconsin, 
and continued actively in practice until called to the supreme bench; was 
member of the assembly in 1865, and again in 1877, when he was elected speaker 
of that body. In 1880, November 11, he was appointed by Governor 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 justice ship 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 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 Chief Justice Orton in July, 
1895, by virtue of his seniority in service.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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