ROBERT CASS came in October, 1826, in company with John Constant. Mr. Cass was born in 1768 or '69, in Iredell county, North Carolina. His father, James Cass, was born in England, and when he was six or seven years of age, was pressed into the British navy, and trained to a sea-faring life. Being separated from his relatives at so early an age, he never understood his own name, and called himself James Cast. He came to Philadelphia, and finally settled in Iredell county, North Carolina. After raising a family there, he moved with his children to Clarke County, Kentucky, and there met two Englishmen by the name of Cass. After becoming acquainted, he found that one of them was his brother, and the other his cousin, and for the first time learned that the family name was not Cast, but Cass. His son Robert, whose name heads this sketch, having always been called Cast, did not think it prudent to resume the original name, but related the facts in the case to his children, and his descendants have very generally returned to it. Robert Cass was married February 26, 1790, in Iredell county, North Carolina, to Lucy Riley. They had one child there, and moved to Clarke county, Kentucky, where they had four children; and Mrs. Lucy Cass died, February 13, 1809. Robert Cass was married in Clarke county, April 26, 1810, to Mary Boggs, and had two children there. The family then moved to Sangamon county. He died July 9, 1852, his wife preceding him about twelve years.