Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

ALONZO S. FAY, Lawyer, Ashland, was born in Virginia, in October,
1852; son of Perry and Ellen (Rasenberger) Fay.  Perry Fay,
subject's father, was born in New York in 1814, came to Illinois
in 1848, and taught school till 1854, when he started West, and
has not since been heard of; his wife, born in the State of
Virginia, in 1820, died at Princeton, Ill., in 1858, leaving two
children, viz.: Alonzo S. and Luela (died in July, 1881.) 
Subject followed farming for a time; then entered the Asbury
Institute of Indiana, where after pursuing his studies in the
classical course for six years, he graduated in June, 1879.  He
then entered the law office of Epler & Callon, in Jacksonville;
and, after reading law there two years, was admitted to the Bar
at Springfield, Ill., in November, 1881; then formed a
partnership with Hon. J. M. Epler, and located at Ashland, where
he is engaged in the practice of his profession.  He is a
Democrat, and a member of the I.O.O.F.

Fay Rasenberger
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