SOURCE:1884 History of Owen County, pp. 918.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Franklin Township.

WILLIAM F. CASSADY, of the firm of Johnson & Cassady,
merchants at Freedom, was born January 4, 1855, in Van 
Buren County, Iowa, and is the fourth of the nine 
children of James J. and Minerva (Awings) Cassady, both 
natives of Kentucky, and of Scotch-Irish extraction. 
William F. came to Indiana with his parents, who located 
in Lebanon, Boone County, in 1861, and after a residence 
of several years removed to Indianapolis, and thence, in 
1876, to the village of Freedom, where he engaged as 
salesman with Pierson & Bro., with whom he remained 
about five years, and in the fall of 1882, formed his 
present connection with Mr. Johnson. August 29, 1878, 
he married Miss Maggie F. Arthur, a native of this county, 
which alliance gave being to two children, Orlie and 
Eddie, both bright and charming boys. Mr. Cassady is a 
man of superior business capacity, giving his whole time 
and energy to improving his stock and furthering his 
growing trade. He is a much respected citizen, a 
Democrat in political preference, and a member of 
the I. 0. 0. F.

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