My Genealogy Hound

CARLTON B. CASS, editor, publisher and proprietor of the Ravenna News, is a native of Albany, N. Y., and was born June 9, 1867. He is a son of Horatio G. and Mary (Babcock) Cass, natives also of New York and descendants of old York State ancestors. His parents came West in 1875 and settled in in Aurora, Hamilton county, this state, where they now live, his father being superintendent of the water works.

The subject of this sketch started out for himself at the age of thirteen, entering the office of the Hamilton county News, where he began to master the rudiments of the “art preservative.” In 1886, then eighteen years old, he went to Ravenna, Buffalo county, and started the Ravenna Star, this being his first newspaper venture. After running this successfully for some time he sold it out and went then to Stratton, in Hitchcock county, this state, where he established the Stratton Democrat. He conducted this successfully for more than a year, when he sold it out and returned to Ravenna and bought the News, of which he is now editor, publisher and proprietor. Mr. Cass is a born and bred newspaper man. He has a strong liking for the business, is a good rustler and a ready and forcible writer, and possesses decided convictions and is fearless and outspoken in opinion. He has a taste for politics and has been somewhat active in political matters. He is a thorough hater of pretense and profession, and scourges vice and iniquity with a vigorous hand wherever he finds it. In politics he inclines towards the democratic faith, but conducts his paper as an independent organ. He is young, ambitious, and posesses the will to do and the soul to dare. He is a hard worker, and is attentive to business. Although active in politics he has never sought office for himself, being content to pursue his own business purposes. He is public-spirited, however, and has attended several conventions and associations of a political and social nature. He is pleasant and companionable in common intercourse and as kind and accommodating a gentleman as one could hope to meet.