W. M. CASHMAN

CASHMAN

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 18:56:08

W. M. CASHMAN, farmer and stock raiser, has been identified with the interests of Adams county since the spring of 1877. He was born in Clinton county, Ohio, July 28, 1843. and is a son of George and Rebecca J. (Murphy) Cashman; there were twelve children in the family, of
which he is the seventh. The father was a native of the State of Pennsylvania, and of German parentage; the mother was born in Ohio, and was a daughter of Jacob Murphy, one of the early settlers of Clinton county, Ohio, where he lived and died upon a farm pre-empted from the Government. The parents of Mr. Cashman died in Knox county, Illinois, the father, at the age of eighty-one years, and the mother, at the age of seventy- three. He was reared to the life of a farmer; at the age of nine years he went with his parents to Knox county, Illinois, where his youth was spent in assisting on the farm, and attending the district school. He remained under the paternal roof until he was about twenty-five years of age. He was married December 23, 1871, to Miss Lydia A. Harper, a native of Knox county, Illinois, and a daughter of Daniel Harper, who was one of the first settlers of Knox county. One child, Sarah Maud, blessed this union. In 1877, March 9, Mr. Cashman came to Adams county, Iowa, and purchased 320 acres of
land in a wild state; he at once began the task of placing it under cultivation. At that
time it was thought that tame grass would not grow on the prairie, but Mr. Cashman, firm in his conviction that such was not the case, sent to Illinois for seed, and the result of this experiment was the first tame grass grown in the county of Adams. He also brought a car-load of short-horn cattle to his farm, and has since made a specialty of raising live-stock of a high grade. His farm
consists of 240 acres of fine land, well adapted to the raising of live-stock.

Mr. Cashman was a second time married, in March, 1882, to Imogene Manrose, a native of Fulton county, Illinois, and a daughter of Burman Manrose, a native of Ohio, and a pioneer of Fulton county, Illinois. One child, Florence M., has been born of this union.

Mr. Cashman is a member of the Farmers’ Alliance.