Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 488.
 
EDWARD E. KASEBERG

    one of the bright and popular young farmers of Sherman county, resides on
his father's place, which he rents, five miles west and two miles south of
Wasco. He was born in Summersville, Texas county, Missouri, July 18, 1879, the
son of John and Henrietta (Sommerkamp) Kaseberg both natives of Germany. During
the Civil war John C. Kaseberg, the father, was employed by the government as a
wagon-maker. He had learned the trade in Germany, coming to the United States in
1853. At present he lives in Walla Walla, Washington. The parents of our subject
were married in St. Louis, Missouri, and migrated to Walla Walla when our
subject was two years of age. In the spring of 1883 they came to Sherman county,
the father haying preceded them the year previous. He located a homestead and
here they continued to live until 1902, when the parents returned to Walla
Walla, having rented the farm to our subject.
     February 16, 1902, at Wasco, Sherman county the latter was married to
Evelyn Morrow born in Illinois August 26, 1879, the daughter of John and Mary
(Shoup)Morrow. For fifteen years her father was a resident and landholder in
Sherman county. He was a veteran of the Civil War dying December 18, 1903. The
mother still lives at Wasco.
     Our subject has three brothers and three sisters living; John R., eight
miles from the town of Wasco; Henry J., a farmer near Walla Walla; Albert C.,
aged sixteen, with his mother in Walla Walla; Augusta, wife of Wallace R.
Copeland of Walla Walla; Lizzie, wife of William C. Bennett, of the same place;
and Amelia, single, and living with her mother at Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs.
Kaseberg have one child, Lawrence E., born April 3, 1903. He is, politically, a
Republican, although by no means an active partisan.  In the community in which
he resides he is quite popular and he and his estimable wife are highly esteemed
in a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
     In addition to handling the old home place, Mr. Kaseberg is a member of the
firm of Webber & Company, who operate a general merchandise store in Wasco.  The
firm consists of E. A. E. Webber, H. P. Disher and E. E. Kaseberg.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2010 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.