History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . n since the days of the verv beginning i>\ it^-settlement. He was the first permanent settler in .Spring Creek townshipand upon the organization of that township was elected clerk of the wife being elected treasurer of the .school district in which thev livedupon its organization and continuing to ser\e in that capacity as long a<they remained there. Mr. Casselman broke the first
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . n since the days of the verv beginning i>\ it^-settlement. He was the first permanent settler in .Spring Creek townshipand upon the organization of that township was elected clerk of the wife being elected treasurer of the .school district in which thev livedupon its organization and continuing to ser\e in that capacity as long a<they remained there. Mr. Casselman broke the first furrow turned inSpring Creek township and his first-born child was the first white childborn in that township. From the time of the organization of the he left the farm he was continually in public office, having servedhis township in various capacities, and did much to develop the interestsof that part of the county. Since the day he filed a pre-emption claim to atract of land in what later was organized as Norman county, back in Casselinan has been successful in his operations and is now the ownerof eleven hundred acres of land, long having been regarded as one of the. mi;. AM) .;s. \v. i:. CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 1505 most substantial citizens of this part of tiie slate. He is now living retiredfrom the active labors of the farm and lie and his wife are very comfortaijlysituated in their pleasant home at Ada. Though born and reared in the old Keystone state, \X. E. Casselmanhas been a resident of the Northwest since the days of his \oung was born in Crawford C(junty, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1856, sonof Daniel T. and Harriet (Durfee) Casselman, the former a native of thestate of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. Daniel T. Casselmanwas a son of Jonas Casselman, who was a soldier during the War of1812 and who man} years later left his family in the F-ast and startedfor Wisconsin on a prospecting trip. He st
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