When Elizabeth Casselman was born in January 1863, in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, her father, Michael Henry Casselman, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Wegar, was 39. She married Anson Merkley on 12 July 1881. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Woodbury Township, Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 15 February 1942, in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Americanized or older spelling of the German habitational name Kasselmann, denoting someone from Kassel (see Kassel ), or Kesselman .
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