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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

George W. CASSEDAY, deceased, formerly of, Joliet, whose portrait appears in this work, 
was born in Bedford Co., Va., Dec. 1, 1803. His father dying when he was 6 months old, 
his mother moved to St. Anne, Ky., where they lived until he was 14 years of age, when 
they moved to Troy, Ohio; at this place he learned the trade of carpenter. On January 
13, 1824, he married Miss Delilah MURPHY, and in the fall of 1825 moved to Vermilion Co., 
IL, where he engaged in farming up to the spring of 1827, when he moved to Edgar Co.,
IL, working at his trade of carpenter, and also farming; in 1829, he moved to Paris, of 
the same county, and remained there up to 1834, when he returned to Vermilion county; 
in 1851, he came to Joliet, where he lived up to his decease, July 23, 1863. When he came 
to Joliet, having purchased a large tract of land, he laid out an addition to the city 
known as "Casseday's Addition." He had five children; three living - Maria L. (now Mrs. 
Joseph G. ENGLISH, of Danville, IL.), Mary C. (now Mrs. John DURHAM, of Danville, IL.), 
and Henry Clay; two deceased - David, and Harriet M.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.