Barton County, Missouri Biographies-E. S. CASNER

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 867, 868

E. S. Casner, a breeder of fine horses in Barton County, Mo., was born 
in Juniata County, Penn., September 17, 1846, and is a son of Thomas B.
and Sarah (Stees) Casner, who were also Pennsylvanians, their parents 
coming from Germany.  In 1847 they moved to Ohio, and ten years later 
to Indiana, where the father died in 1872, and the mother still lives. 
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a 
Republican in his political views, and during the late war served two
years in the Sixty-fourth Indiana Volunteer infantry, United States Army.
He was a mechanic by trade.  E. S. Casner is one of three surviving 
members of a family of five children, and in his youth received a common
school education.  At the age of seventeen years he began clerking in a
store, which occupation he followed five years, and in 1870 he came to 
Jasper County, Mo., and after farming three years, turned his attention
to mercantile pursuits, continuing until 1880, when he began lead mining.
In 1887 he moved to Lamar, and soon after opened a stable of fine 
breeding horses, owning three imported Percheron horses and a standard
bred Hambletonian horse, all of them fine animals. In connection with 
managing his stable, he is engaged in mining, and all his property has
been acquired by hard work and good management, and has been made since
coming to Missouri, as he then had nothing.  His first money was made 
by breaking prairie at $2.50 per acre.  He is a Republican in his 
political views, and while in Jasper County held the office of 
councilman one term.  January 1, 1873, he was married to Miss Nellie 
Gray, a native of New York, by whom he has three sons and one daughter.

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