Scope and Contents From the Collection: According to the book, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), Charles Kingsbury, born in Massachusetts in 1812, had a dry goods store in Maine and came to Cassopolis to visit his brother Asa in the fall of 1837. He decided to stay here and went into the dry goods business with his brother that year and continued until 1857. Joseph K. Ritter, born in Berrien County in 1829 and came to Cassopolis in 1851 and work in the dry goods business for the next...