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Below is a family biography included in The History of Moniteau County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Phillip W. Cassil, a farmer and carpenter of Linn Township, Moniteau County, is a native of New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., Ohio, and was born in 1833. He is a son of John R. and Christina (Welday) Cassil. John R. was born in Eastern Kentucky, July 15, 1802; his father died when he was small, and his mother afterward married Phillip Ward and moved to Ohio. John R. Cassil was a contractor and builder by trade, and when grown went to Ohio, where he also engaged in cabinet-making and millwrighting. April 15, 1824, he was married in Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained ten or twelve years, and then removed to Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ohio. He subsequently lived on a farm in the northern part of Williams County about five years, and then with his family located in St. Joseph, Mo., later settling about sixty miles south of that place. In the latter part of the year 1854 he went to Kickapoo, where he followed millwrighting, and from there went with a party to Pike’s Peak, where he is supposed to have been killed, as he has never since been heard from. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, who was a daughter of Jacob Welday, of Pennsylvania, was born in Ohio, March 12, 1807, and still survives. They had eleven children, eight of whom are now living, viz.: Catherine, in Ohio; Margaret and William, in Kansas; Phillip W., in Missouri; Rebecca J., John and Rose Ellen, also in Kansas, and Hannah Partee, living in Washington Territory. The deceased are: Elizabeth M., who died in childhood, in 1830; Francis was killed in 1875; Sarah Ann died in Wyandotte, Kan., in 1884, leaving two children. Phillip W. Cassil received a good common-school education, and subsequently taught school twenty-two terms. He learned the carpenter’s trade, which he followed quite extensively, and since locating in Missouri has erected several dwellings and one schoolhouse. He went to Missouri from Ohio in 1874, and settled on his present farm of 160 acres in Linn Township, upon which he has erected good buildings and made many improvements. September 22, 1856, he married Louisa Partee, who was born in Defiance County, Ohio, November 1, 1835, and is a daughter of Lawrence and Rebecca (Webb) Partee. Twelve children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cassil, viz.: Leslie, who was born in 1857, was married in Ohio December 7, 1882, and died in Kansas City November 19, 1887; Bruce, born January 22, 1859, in Henry County, Ohio, married Rachel Vivion September 9, 1880, is now living in Kansas City, Mo., and has three children; H. Rebecca, wife of C. Chiles, married September 9, 1880, has three children and lives in Kansas City; Elias was born July 16, 1862, and is a journeyman; Willis, born November 21, 1864, carpenter; Fanny was born July 18, 1866, and was married in March, 1887, to M. G. Turner; Frank was born April 27, 1870; Elmar, born September 23, 1872; John, born June 6, 1875; Charles, November 1, 1877, and Grace, April 15, 1880. The parents are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and take a prominent part in church and Sunday-school work. In politics Mr. Cassil is independent.

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