- CURTIS P. CASSON, Indian Ford; born in Thorn, Yorkshire,
ten miles from Doncaster,
- England, Feb. 20, 1812; was educated at Ackworth Academy,
Yorkshire; sailed from Liverpool, England, in packet ship Sheffield,
Capt. Hagstaff, Nov. 16, 1831, and landed in New York Dec. 27,
1831; remained in vicinity of New York, New Jersey and Hoboken,
till May, 1832, when he moved to Poughkeepsie and from there
to Rochester, N.Y.; from here he went to England to visit his
home in 1836; same year, he returned to Rochester, N.Y.; moved
from there to Shortsville, Ontario Co., N.Y.; came to Hartland,
Waukesha Co., and located at Fall River, Wis., in 1856, and started
a grist-mill and ran it for Breton & Kinney; moved to Milton,
Rock Co., in 1859; from here to Oshkosh, and, in 1862, from Oshkosh
to Indian Ford; he moved back to Oshkosh in 1869; from there
to Oconto City, and thence to Indian Ford, May, 1875. Married
Hannah BARRINGTON, at Rochester, N.Y., June 3, 1833; their children
are Mary Jane, born Oct. 19, 1832; John P., April 12, 1839, died
Sept. 30, 1840; Thomas B., born Feb. 13, 1840, who now is miller
at Indian Ford; Alfred K., March 12, 1832; died Sept. 15, 1861,
in U.S. Army; Edward C., born Nov. 5, 1844; John J., born April
2, 1847; William N., Sept. 5, 1849; Charles F., Aug. 18, 1852.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 843.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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