Sacramento County
Biographies
JAMES W.
CASSIE
JAMES W. CASSIE.--A successful contractor and builder of Courtland, Sacramento County, Mr. Cassie is a native of Scotland, born in Aberdeen, February 23, 1882, a son of John and Ellen (Dickie) Cassie, who were farmer people of that country and there died, the father aged fifty years and the mother reaching sixty-three years. The second in a family of seven children born to his parents, James W was educated in the grammar school of Aberdeen, and when twenty-one he came to Canada, and for nine months stayed in Toronto. He had taken up the trade of carpenter in Scotland when fourteen years old, and was a full-fledged journeyman at his trade before he was twenty; for two winter seasons he attended Gordon College at Aberdeen.
From Toronto Mr. Cassie went to Chicago and there worked at this trade one and one-half years, and in 1906 he came to San Francisco and for the next sixteen years made his residence in that city, working on building jobs. In 1922 he came to Courtland, Sacramento County, as superintendent in charge of the construction of the new union high school building for the McLaren Company of San Francisco, contractors, and after this building was completed he remained at Courtland, making his home there. He engaged in building contracting for himself and at present is just completing the new Masonic Temple at Courtland, and also has other buildings in the course of construction.
The marriage of Mr. Cassie, at San Francisco, June 5, 1909, united him with Miss Catherine Ritchie, also a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, where she was educated and came to the United States with her parents, who were farmers in the old country, just two years previous to her marriage. Four children have blessed their marriage: Helen, Katherine, June and Florence Marian. Mr. Cassie took out his American citizenship papers at Oakland, and in both civic and national politics he has always voted for the man he deems best fitted for office; he is a member of the Oakland lodge of Masons, and both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star of that city.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 912.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.