Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cassel, Benjamin C. December 11, 1851 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  BENJAMIN C. CASSEL a well-known and representative citizen 
of Worcester township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was 
born in that township, and reared on a farm not far from his 
present home, the place being now in possession of J. C. 
Blatner. He follows farming to a limited extent in 
connection with another line of business.

  His grandfather was Benjamin Cassel, whose first wife was 
Sarah Heebner. After her death he married Mrs. Kate 
(Clemmens) Beyer, a widow. The children of the latter 
marriage were Jacob, Benjamin, Joseph, Enos, Abraham, 
Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, Catherine and Susan. Abraham, the 
fifth child and fifth son of this family, grew up as a 
country boy, was educated in the district schools, and 
became a farmer. He was prosperous and respected, and reared 
a worthy family.

  His wife was Susanna Cassel, and the names of his seven 
children were as follows Isiah, Elizabeth, Cornelius, 
Abraham, Susanna, Benjamin C. and Mary, deceased.

  Benjamin C., sixth child and fourth son of the foregoing 
family, was born December 11, 1851, in Worcester township. 
He attended school in the neighborhood until he was sixteen 
years of age, and for several years thereafter worked on a 
farm. 

  In 1875, the year following his marriage, he removed to 
the place he now occupies, comprising fifty-one acres of 
land. This land he cultivates for the greatest possible 
return, giving much attention to gardening. He also buys 
live stock which he feeds for the Philadelphia market. He is 
a well-known dealer in the market at Eighteenth and Bridge 
streets, where his treats have gained a reputation for their 
high quality. He is a Democrat and bears his part in duties 
of citizenship, keeping an intelligent interest in the 
course of national affairs. He and his family attend the 
Reformed Mennonite church.

  On the 17th of March 1874, Benjamin C. Cassel married Mary 
J., daughter of Jesse and Mary (Bechtel) Detro. His wife is 
one of a family of nine children, as follows: Eliza, born 
December 3, 1842, who is unmarried; Hannah, who married 
William Delp, of Lansdale, and has one child; Harry, 
deceased; Mahlon, a commission merchant of Philadelphia, who 
married Tillie Lambert and has two children; Abraham, now a 
farmer of Lehigh county, who married Annie Shields, and has 
six children; Mary J., wife of Benjamin C. Cassel; Josiah, a 
marketman of Philadelphia, whose wife was Kate Hochman, and 
who is the father of nine children; Amanda, wife of Benjamin 
Wycle, a minister of Saints church, who is the mother of two 
children; and Ida, who lives in Lansdale with her mother. 
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Cassel have no children of their 
own but have reared six adopted children.

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