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 909, Vermont Township
Leander Cassidy, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 7; P. O. ,
Vermont; born in New York in 1832; reared on a farm; liberally
educated; taught school; in 1856 moved to Ohio and taught school a few
months, then moved to McDonough Co., Il., where he taught for 8 years.
In 1859 he married Louisa Cox, by whom he has 7 children; in 1865 he
moved to Fulton Co., settling in this tp.
