Bio: Cass, Josiah Edward (1881)

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Surnames: Cass, Pitkin

----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Eau Claire County, Wis.) 1881, page 318

JOSIAH EDWARD CASS, of the firm of Cass & Tracy, druggists, Eau Claire, was born in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., and came to Buffalo County in 1859. He lived there until 1863, when he enlisted in Co. B, 7th Wis. V. I., and was mustered out in 1865, after the close of the war. He taught school in Buffalo County for two years after he left the army, and in 1867, came to Eau Claire, and was employed in the stores of French & Brown, Barnes & French and Seth French & Co., becoming a member of the latter firm in 1871. He was married in Eau Claire, in January, 1874, to Catherine Pitkin.