(died 24 Dec. 1925) railway contractor and rancher. (Angus Cashion, A. D. Cashion) Born probably at Cashion’s Glen, GC. Parents: Daniel Cashion and his wife Jane Burton. Angus Cashion is said to have left Canada in 1888. Like his brother James A. Cashion he worked for Grant Brothers as a construction superintendent in railway building. In a distinguished career, he worked at railway building principally in the American Southwest and in Mexico.The two Cashion brothers came to Phoenix, Arizona, about 1900. At the time of his death Angus Cashion, a Phoenix resident, was president of the Cashion-Caldwell Construction Co. which held contracts for doubletracking a 74-mile portion of the Southern Pacific. He died following a car accident at Gila Bend, Ariz. His wife’s Christian name was Hattie. (two children) According to his obituary in The Arizona Republic “The life story of Mr. Cashion and of his brother Jim, also of Phoenix, is one of the epics of railroading in the southwestern and Mexican frontier.” His ranching seems from the printed sources to have attracted less attention than that of his brother but he had a cattle ranch on the 320 acres of land he bought at Glendale, Ariz., in 1910 (now a part of greater Phoenix.) In the city directories he appears as a rancher in 1921 but as a railway contractor in 1923.

The Arizona Republic (Phoenix) 25 Dec. 1925 and The Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona) 1 Jan. 1926 * life of Angus Cashion in Arizona Prehistoric– Aboriginal– Pioneer– Modern: Biographical: Vol. III (1916) pp. 706-707 * family background, other connections: see life of his brother