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 HISTORY OF SOUTHExVST MISSOURI 583 years in the Sulphur Rock high school, aud then began a career as teacher. He taught a summer term and during the winter con- tinued his education, and taught about four months each year for seven years. Wlien he was twenty-two he was elected assessor of his county, being in this office four years or two terms. He lived at Lynn while hold- ing this office, which required about three months of each j'ear, and part of the re- maining time he spent in teaching. On the expiration of his last term as as- sessor he moved to Dunklin county in 1902 and established a mercantile business in Bra- num. There was one other store in the vil- lage, aud he had a good share of the patronage of that community, ilr. Geaslin has been a resident of Hornersville since 1906. Soon afterward he was elected justice of the peace and has held this office to the present time. In 1910 he was one of the five candidates on the Democratic ticket for nomination to the office of probate judge, and came in second. lie is a potential candidate for 1914. In 1911 he established the only collecting agency in the southern part of Dunklin county. During his official and private busi- ness career lie has acquired a practical training in the law, and for several years he has represented that profession in Horners- ville. He is a tactful man of aft'aii-s, resource- ful and energetic, and has the confidence of the entire community. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the tribe of Ben Hur. In 1895, at the age of twenty-two, he mar- ried IMiss Joann L. Penn, who died October 13, 190-4, leaving three children: Bon, born in 1897 ; Paul, born in 1899, and Dessie, born in 1903. On Jlarch 2, 1905, :Mr. Geaslin manned JIiss Grace A. Rodgers, of Horners- ville, and they have three children: Sanford, bom in 1906; Pleas, Iwrn in 1908; and Oliver, born in 1910. Arthur V. Cashion. Perry county, Mis- souri, figures as one of the most attractive, progressive and prosperous divisions of the state, justly claiming a high order of citizen- ship and a spirit of enterprise which is certain to conserve consecutive development and marked advancement in the material up- building of this section. The county has been and is signally favored in the class of men who have contributed to its development along commercial and editorial lines and in the latter connection the subject of this re- view demands recognition as he has been actively engaged in the news^japer business during the greater part of his active career thus far. He owns and publishes the Ferry County Eepuhlican in connection with his cousin Charles E. Cashion and this paper is recognized as one of the most enterpi'ising and progressive publications in southeastern ^Missouri. A native of Perry^'ille, Missouri, Arthur V. Cashion was born on the 29th of Februaiy, 1868. He is a son of Archibald H. Cashion, whose birth occurred on a farm eligibly lo- cated some five miles south of Perryville. The parents of Archibald H. Cashion were William and Sally Cashion, both of whom died when their five boys were very young. These boys grew up on the old homestead farm in Perry county and when the dark cloud of Civil war obscured the national hori- zon all of them enlisted for sei-vice, their sympathies being with the North. Archibald H. Cashion was a member of the Fifth jMis- souri Cavalry and he participated in a num- ber of important engagements marking the progress of the war. He served under Gen- eral John McNeal and from the office of cor- poral was later promoted to the rank of lieu- tenant. After the close of the war and when peace had again been established throughout the country he returned to Perry county, where he again devoted his time and energies to farming operations. In the election of 1866 he was elected sheriff and collector of Perry county and after serving in those ca- pacities for a period of four years he returned to his farm where he resided for a number of years. Just prior to the outbreak of the war between the states he had married iliss JIargaret Brewer aud they set up housekeep- ing on a farm adjoining the old Cashion es- tate. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald H. Cashion liecame the parents of eight children and the devoted wife and mother was called to eter- nal rest in the year 1906. In 1896 Mr. Cashion was honored by his fellow citizens with election to membership in the state legis- lature, as a representative of Perry county, serving two terms, and while a member of that august body he served on a number of important committees. After his retire- ment from the legislature he was appointed postmaster of Perryville. an office he filled with great credit to himself for a period of nine years. He is now living retired at