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Author: RMunns7272
Surnames: Cassel, Stark
Classification: biography
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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 854.
Town of Campbell
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 C!
rosse 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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