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John Wasson, a leading stockman and farmer of the county, residing at Cane Hill, nine miles southeast of the county-seat, was born in St. Louis County, Mo., on the 2d of January, 1844, and made his home with his parents until their death, receiving his education in the common schools of his native county. In 1874 he married Mrs. M. J. Ross, who was born in Kentucky in 1837, and is a daughter of Thomas and Lucinda Pyle, who came from Kentucky to Missouri in 1855, and died in Polk and Cedar Counties, respectively. To Mr. Wasson’s marriage two children were born: Omer and Wallace. He owns 520 acres of land, 300 acres under cultivation, and 200 river bottom land, and his home farm is one of the finest in the county, being well adapted to the raising of grain, and stock growing. He has been a resident of Cedar County since 1872, and is an influential and highly respected citizen. He is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Horace Greeley, His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His father, John W. Wasson, was a Scotchman, born about 1776, and when a young man he left his native land and came to St. Louis, Mo., purchasing a tract of land near that city, which was then a small French village. He died on this farm in 1862, aged eighty-six years. His wife was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1801, and died in St. Louis County in 1861, having borne a family of six children.