William was born the son of John Harvey and Wrexaville Belle
Braffett Wasson in Colombus, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University, where he learned that he could pick up extra money at the Wild West Show and see the show free by playing the coronet in the pickup band. He also learned how to throw a curveball, a skill that saved the day for the New Paris(OH) town baseball team. In those days there was a fierce rivalry with neighboring towns in foot racing and baseball. Technically, he was not a"ringer", because he would spend the summers there with a relative. Folks there had never seen a curveball. In 1889 he married Martha Belle Humphrey(26 Mar 1872-10 Dec 1940), in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio in 1889. They raised three children:1)Emma Jean Wasson Tyler(1890-1978),2)John Humphrey Wasson (1894-1970), and 3)Martha Marquise Wasson Teeple Englehard (1896-1974). As a widower, He lived with Emma Jean in Newark, New Jersey. Despite his advanced age, he helped out during the wartime manpower shortage. He worked the night shift (4 p.m.-12:30) in the War Department's Office of Dependency Benefits in Newark. At one time, he worked for the Central Ohio Salt Company, and also for a company making rope paper bags Then he went to New York where he was employed at the New York Stock Exchange. While there, he visited the public library and collected all the Wasson names and addresses from the A.T.&T Directory in the country to send his postcard, containing a thumbnail sketch of his 3 generation family tree then known to him, which contained an invitation to share. He retired in 1941. But when his grandson Cutler went into the Army, he volunteered for government work. Working these hours at the Newark office, he had time to carry on the correspondence with other Wassons he had located all over the United States and some in foreign lands. His daughter said that it was his custom to return from work, then read his mail and the paper until 2 A.m. Then he would get a few hours of sleep. The result of this correspondence can be read in a booklet, "Wassons of the U.S.A." found in the files of Preble County Regional Historical Society Library Eaton, Ohio. Thanks to The "Palladium-Item" of Richmond, Indiana for excerpts from his obituary. Ruth Brown Egan.

William was born the son of John Harvey and Wrexaville Belle
Braffett Wasson in Colombus, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University, where he learned that he could pick up extra money at the Wild West Show and see the show free by playing the coronet in the pickup band. He also learned how to throw a curveball, a skill that saved the day for the New Paris(OH) town baseball team. In those days there was a fierce rivalry with neighboring towns in foot racing and baseball. Technically, he was not a"ringer", because he would spend the summers there with a relative. Folks there had never seen a curveball. In 1889 he married Martha Belle Humphrey(26 Mar 1872-10 Dec 1940), in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio in 1889. They raised three children:1)Emma Jean Wasson Tyler(1890-1978),2)John Humphrey Wasson (1894-1970), and 3)Martha Marquise Wasson Teeple Englehard (1896-1974). As a widower, He lived with Emma Jean in Newark, New Jersey. Despite his advanced age, he helped out during the wartime manpower shortage. He worked the night shift (4 p.m.-12:30) in the War Department's Office of Dependency Benefits in Newark. At one time, he worked for the Central Ohio Salt Company, and also for a company making rope paper bags Then he went to New York where he was employed at the New York Stock Exchange. While there, he visited the public library and collected all the Wasson names and addresses from the A.T.&T Directory in the country to send his postcard, containing a thumbnail sketch of his 3 generation family tree then known to him, which contained an invitation to share. He retired in 1941. But when his grandson Cutler went into the Army, he volunteered for government work. Working these hours at the Newark office, he had time to carry on the correspondence with other Wassons he had located all over the United States and some in foreign lands. His daughter said that it was his custom to return from work, then read his mail and the paper until 2 A.m. Then he would get a few hours of sleep. The result of this correspondence can be read in a booklet, "Wassons of the U.S.A." found in the files of Preble County Regional Historical Society Library Eaton, Ohio. Thanks to The "Palladium-Item" of Richmond, Indiana for excerpts from his obituary. Ruth Brown Egan.