Herbert Newton Casson (1869 - 1951)

Born 23 Sep 1869 in Odessa, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada

Husband of Lydia Kingsmill (Commander) Casson — married 2 Mar 1899 in Dickson, Tennessee, United States

Died 4 Sep 1951 at age 81 in Norwood, Surrey, England

Biography

Herbert Newton Casson was a Canadian-born journalist and author.

Born in 1869, he was the son of Rev. Wesley Casson, a Methodist missionary, and Elizabeth Jackson. ^[1]His childhood was spent in Ontario and Manitoba.

After graduating from Victoria College, he moved to Boston in 1893 and started his publishing career. His experiences in the immigrant slums of the city led to his becoming a socialist and moving to the Ruskin Colony, a commune in Tennessee. Presumably it was there that he met his future wife Lydia K. Commander, whom he married in 1899.^[2] They moved to New York, where Bert worked as a newspaper journalist.^[3]The Romance of Steel, which was published in 1907, was the first of the 168 books on business success that he would write in his lifetime.

The Cassons moved to England in 1914. He died in 1951 in Surrey, England.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVX1-XS2 : 20 May 2019), Herbert N. Casson in household of Wesley Casson, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada; from "1881 Canadian Census." Database with images. Ancestry. (www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing Wesley Casson, citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZWL-7LF : 3 November 2017), Herbert N Casson and Lidia K Commander, 02 Mar 1899; citing Dickson, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 2,114,118.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSK5-CGL : accessed 11 May 2020), Herbert Casson, Borough of Manhattan, Election District 8 New York City Ward 31, New York County, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 843, sheet 25A, family 37, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,119.
4. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCX-KDR5 : 4 September 2014), Herbert N Casson, 1951; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Croydon, Surrey, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

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