Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cassell, Nathan November 27, 1860 - 
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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

NATHAN CASSELL, a representative farmer of Upper Gwynedd 
township, Montgomery county Pennsylvania, where his 
extensive operations have met with a large degree of 
prosperity, traces his ancestry to Julius Cassell, who was 
for many years a minister of the Mennonite church in the 
Palatinate, Germany. He was a man of note and prominence, 
and exerted, a powerful influence for good in the community. 
He married, and among the children born to him was a son, 
Hubert Cassell, whose birth occurred in Germany. In 1715 he 
migrated to this country, becoming the pioneer ancestor of 
the American branch of the family, and settled in Towamencin 
township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he followed 
agricultural pursuits.

Joseph Cassell (grandfather), son of Hubert Cassell, was 
born in Towamencin township, Montgomery county, and his 
entire lifetime was spent in the vicinity of his birthplace. 
He was indebted to the common schools of his neighborhood 
for his educational advantages. He followed the useful 
calling of farming, and was thereby enabled to provide a 
comfortable home for his family. He married a Miss Metz, a 
native of Montgomery county, and the issue of this union 
was, one son Joseph M. Cassell.

Joseph M. Cassell (father) was born in Towamencin township, 
Montgomery county, June 14, 1834. He was educated in the 
common schools adjacent to his home and after completing his 
studies became a farmer, which occupation he followed 
throughout the active years of his life, and for which he 
was qualified by experience on his father's farm. He removed 
to Skippack, and later to Lower Salford township, Montgomery 
county, where he resided up to the time of his death. He 
stood high in the community, and was chosen by his fellow 
citizens to fill the office of school director. He was a 
Mennonite in religion, and a staunch Republican in politics. 
He married Miss Hannah Smith, of Towamencin township, 
Montgomery county, who is living at the present time (1904) 
in the city of Philadelphia. Their children were Louise, 
born October 16, 1858; Nathan, November 27, 1860; Sylvester, 
December 10, 1862 Mary, October 6, 1864; Andrew, January 1, 
1867; and Wilson, April 16, 1869.

Nathan Cassell, eldest son of Joseph M. and Hannah Cassell, 
was born in Skippack township, Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, November 27, 1860. During his early childhood 
his parents removed to Upper Salford township, same county, 
and in the schools of that and Hatfield township he acquired 
a practical education which qualified him for a life of 
usefulness and activity. At the age of seventeen years he 
left the parental homestead and took up his residence on a 
farm in Towamencin township, where he remained until 1877, 
in which year he moved to his present home in Upper Gwynedd 
township. His farm is under a high state of cultivation, 
yields a goodly crop in return for his labors, and with the 
substantial buildings thereon, which are kept in perfect 
order, makes it one of the most valuable pieces of property 
in that section of the county. He is a Republican in his 
politics, but has never sought or held office, preferring to 
devote his time entirely to business interests. He attends 
the Schwenkfelder church.

In 1883 Mr. Cassell married Miss Hannah Snyder, a daughter 
of George and Abbie (Heebner) Snyder, residents of Upper 
Gwynedd township. Their children were: George, born 
September 24, 1884; Hiram, September 17, 1886; Alice, March 
23, 1890, died in 1898; Mary E., April 19, 1893, died in 
1894. Mrs. Cassell, mother of these children, died September 
15, 1897.

Mr. Cassell married for his second wife Mrs. Nathaniel 
Kriebel, widow of Nathaniel Kriebel, and daughter of Edward 
Seibert, of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. The ceremony was 
performed January 27, 1900. They are the parents of one 
child, Wilson, born August 14, 1902.

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