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EDWARD M. CASSADY was born at Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, September 25, 1848, and died at Whiting, Iowa, February 1, 1928. He attended common school during his youth and in February, 1864, enlisted in Company A, Tenth United States Infantry, at Cleveland and served in the Army of the Potomac until the close of the war when he was transferred to Minnesota in the Indian country where he served the remainder of his three years’ enlistment. He removed to Fremont County, Iowa, the fall of 1867, and to Monona County the spring of 1868, where he became a farm hand, but soon bought some wild land and began breaking and farming it. He farmed until 1880 when he removed to Whiting and formed a partnership with Will C. Whiting where they became dealers in general merchandise, lumber, implements, and grain. Mr. Cassady assisted in founding the Whiting Bank of which he became president. At the same time he continued to conduct very extensive farming operations, the breeding of Hereford cattle, and cattle feeding. He held several township offices and in 1906 was elected representative, and was re-elected in 1908, serving in the Thirty-second and Thirty-third general assemblies. He was father of Raymond W. Cassady, Iowa’s first secretary of agriculture, who died in 1924.