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JOSEPH KERR CASS, paper manufacturer and dealer, was born Oct. 10, 1848, in Coshocton, Ohio. His great-grandfather, Maj. Jonathan Cass, located after the Revolution on what is known as the Cass section, in Muskingum county, Ohio, where he left a large property. He came from Exeter, N. H., the family being originally from the south of England. Jonathan Cass had three sons: Lewis, Charles and George W. The first named was the democratic opponent of Gen. Taylor in the presidential contest of 1848. The youngest passed his days on his inheritance, and had four sons and two daughters. The eldest of these was Gen. George W. Cass, whose sketch appears above. The fourth, Abner L., graduated at Jefferson Medical University of Philadelphia, and practiced his profession for twenty-five years in Coshocton. He came to Pittsburgh in 1878 and soon after went to Chicago, where he died in 1886. His wife, Margaret, was a daughter of Rev. Joseph Kerr, one of the founders of the U. P. Seminary in Allegheny. They had five children, three of whom grew up. The name of the eldest heads this sketch; George W., the second, is an attorney in Chicago; Mary Agnes resides with her brother in Pittsburgh.

Joseph K. Cass graduated from Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio, in 1868, and commenced engineering. He was employed in. locating various western railroads till 1874, when he came to Pittsburgh and took employment in the offices of the Pan Handle railroad. Two years later he became interested in his present business in the firm of Morrison, Bare & Cass, now Morrison, Cass & Co. The paper-mills at Tyrone are the property of Morrison & Cass. Mr. Cass is a trustee in Point Breeze Presbyterian Church; in politics he is independent. In 1878. he married Sarah M., daughter of Dr. John and Annie (Stevenson) Anderson, of Scotch-Irish and English extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Cass have the following children: Charles Anderson, Margaret Kerr, Joseph K. and Annie.