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Kasson, John Adams

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posted on 2023-06-08, 11:41 authored by Robert Cook
Kasson, John Adams – the great survivor of 19th-century Iowa politics — was born in Charlotte, Vermont, the son of a prosperous farmer and devout mother. After his father's death, the family moved to the lumber port of Burlington, Vermont. In 1837 Kasson entered the town's Old Academy, where he studied classics and mathematics for a year. He was then admitted to the University of Vermont, where he excelled in German literature and shared the predominantly nationalist and conservative outlook of his middle-class peers. After graduation, he took up a series of temporary tutorial positions in Virginia. Although the young mandeveloped a liking for Southern whites and harbored no moral objections to life in a slaveholding society, he observed the thinness of the soil and the wasteful farming practices of the Virginians.

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  • Published

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Page range

275-276

Pages

608.0

Book title

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa

Place of publication

Iowa City

ISBN

9781587296857

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  • American Studies Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Marvin Bergman, Loren Horton, David Hudson

Legacy Posted Date

2012-05-25

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