When John Kalili Casson was born on 2 September 1929, in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, United States, his father, Maxwell Iwa Casson Sr, was 24 and his mother, Julia Lei Puahala, was 20. He lived in Representative District 3, Maui, Hawaii, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 31 August 2014, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kāne'ohe, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
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English (northwestern): from the Middle English female personal name Casse (probably a pet form of Cassandra; see Cass ) + son, hence ‘son of Casse’. Alternatively, a variant of Catson, ‘son of Cat(t)e’, from a pet form of the Middle English female personal name Catelin (see Catt 2 and Catlin ) + son.
Irish (Mayo and Leitrim): variant of Cashin .
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