Welcome to Cass County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Cass County was created on September 1, 1851 by the legislature of the Minnesota Territory from portions of Dakota, Mahkatah, Pembina and Wahnata Counties. It was not formally organized until 1897. The county was named in honor of Lewis Cass, of Michigan, who was territorial governor, U.S. senator, secretary of war and secretary of state A portion of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation is in the county. Its county seat is Walker. Townships: Cities  Ansel Township Barclay Township Becker Township Beulah Township Birch Lake Township Blind Lake Township Boy Lake Township Boy River Township Bull Moose Township Bungo Township Byron Township Crooked Lake Township Deerfield Township Fairview Township Gould Township Hiram Township Home Brook Township Inguadona Township Kego Township Leech Lake Township Lima Township Loon Lake Township Maple Township May Township McKinley Township  Meadow Brook Township Moose Lake Township Otter Tail Peninsula Township Pike Bay Township Pine Lake Township Pine River Township Ponto Lake Township Poplar Township Powers Township Remer Township Rogers Township Salem Township Shingobee Township Slater Township Smoky Hollow Township Sylvan Township Thunder Lake Township Torrey Township Trelipe Township Turtle Lake Township Wabedo Township Walden Township Wilkinson Township Wilson Township Woodrow Township  Backus Bena Boy River Cass Lake Chickamaw Beach East Gull Lake Federal Dam Hackensack Lake Shore Longville Motley (part) Pillager Pine River Remer Walker Unorganized Wahnena North Cass North Central Cass East Cass  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr. 2012: Bio: Gilbert Mar. 2012: 1880 Mortality Index; Obits: Greenough, Hodgson, Nelson; Bio: Harding; Marriage: Meloy-Howard Feb. 2012: Marriage: Dalager-Hovland; WW2 Army Honor List; Bios: Dare, Davis, Dumas Jan 2012: Court news Dec 2011: Obit for Chief Bemidji; Marriage ann. for SCHNMIDT-NEILS; death certificates for NEILS, Katzenmaier Previous Updates: Marriage Announcement for COSNED-DUNCAN; Index to 1860 Federal Census; 1865 State Census; Pension of Ed Harris; Cemeteries SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Itasca Co (northeast) Aitkin Co (southeast) Crow Wing Co (southeast) Morrison Co (south) Todd Co (southwest) Wadena Co (southwest) Hubbard Co (northwest) Beltrami Co (northwest VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.