McCaslin, S. W. 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 859, Pleasant Township
S. W. McCaslin, merchant, Ipava. Mr. McC. Carries a large and well-selected stock of groceries and transacts a good business. He was born in Ohio March 6, ’28; passed his boyhood upon a farm, and at the age of 16 began to learn the carpenter’s trade, which he continued to follow until 1876, when he came to Ipava and embarked in the mercantile trade. He enlisted in the late war in Co. H, 25th Ohio Inf., and served 2 years as Sergeant. He participated in several hard-fought battles while in that company, and in 1864 enlisted in Co. D, 181st Ohio Inf., and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. He came to Ipava in 1870; was married May 9, ’50, in the Buckeye State, to Mary Brunker, who was born in that State Nov. 6, ’28. Laura E. and Jesse are their children.