On March 4, 1837, the day that Martin Van Buren was inaugurated president of the United States, there was an infant born about twelve miles west of Harrisonburg and about four miles east of Rosefield on the old Harrisonburg- Columbia Road.The father of this infant was Benjamin Franklin Cassels, in honor of the president Van Buren.We do not know very much about Benjamin Franklin Cassels. Only that…
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