Samuel H. Casady (c. 1831 - 1873) was an American politician and one of the earliest white settlers in Iowa.
[2] His daughter Lizzie Casady was the first white child to be born in Sioux City.
[1] In 1856, Casady moved from Indiana to Sioux City, Iowa, one of the first white settlers on the historically Indigenous Dakota land of the Western frontier.
He fought in the Sioux Wars as part of the Sioux City Cavalry, an armed group of white settlers that was formed in November, 1861, and merged into the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry as Company I in July, 1863.
[1] Casady died on December 24, 1873, and is buried at Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs, Iowa.