Cassel, William bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 424-425, Astoria Township
William Cassel, a leading farmer of this township and county, is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1832. He grew to manhood in that State, followed farmming and learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1852 he came West, settling in Astoria township, and shortly afterward purchased land. In 1855 he was united in with Miss Anna Schisler, who is the mother of 4 children - Sarah J., Angeline, Mary and William. Mr. C. is one of those enterprising, go-ahead farmers who wastes no time in idleness and is to-day a representative of his class, and owns over 400 acres of valuable land.