Cassady, J. E
lawyer, legislator, was born July 8, 1859, in Roane county, Tenn.
He received his education in the public schools, and at the Grant university of Athens. For eight years he was clerk of the circuit court; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Tennessee state legislature in the fiftieth general assembly. CASSATT, ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, railroad president, was born Dec. 8, 1839, in Pittsburg, Pa. Since 1885 he has been president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad.