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Dan Dillon Casement - Painesville. Lake Co., Ohio

Army Rank: Captain (1918).

Assigned Unit: Camp Travis Detachment #1

2nd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery (1918)

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Promoted:

Army Discharge: 1919

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919

   Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

   Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938)

   Princeton University Graduate – Civil Engineering (1890)

   Columbia University Graduate (masters degree) (1891)

   Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress, Kansas 5th District (1924)

   Inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame (1958)

   Inducted into the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame (2007)

   Inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame (1986)

   Inducted into the Kansas Quarter Horse Hall of Fame (2001)

   Address: 1106 N. Weber Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado (1910)

   Address: 611 N. 14th St, Manhattan, Riley Co., Kansas (1920)

   Address: 610 Humboldt St., Manhattan City, Kansas (1930)

   Address: Juanita Farm, Manhattan, Riley Co., Kansas (1938)

Wife’s Name: Mary Olivia Thornburgh

(b. March 12, 1874 District of Columbia)

(d. Nov. 8, 1942 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio)

Married: Dec. 1, 1897 Manhattan, New York, New York

Fathers Name: John Stephen Casement

Brevet Brigadier General – American Civil War

(b. Jan. 19, 1829 Geneva, Ontario Co., New York)

(d. Dec. 13, 1909 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio)

Mothers Name: Frances Marion Jennings

(b. April 23, 1840 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio)

(d. Aug. 24, 1928 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio)

Married: Oct. 14, 1857 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio

Brother: Charles & John

Sisters:

Civilian Occupation: Stockman (1930)

Born: July 13, 1868 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio

Died: March 7, 1953 Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio

Cemetery: Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Ohio

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