Western Reserve agriculturalist Charles Clement Jennings built the Casement House, also known as the Jennings Place, for his daughter Frances Jennings Casement in 1870. Designed by Charles W. Heard, son-in-law and student of Western Reserve master builder Jonathan Goldsmith, it is an excellent example of the Italianate style, featuring ornate black walnut woodwork, elaborate ceiling frescoes, and an innovative ventilation system. It remained in the Casement family until 1953 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Frances Jennings Casement (1840-1928) was a prominent and effective activist for women’s rights who organized the Painesville Equal Rights Association in 1883 and served as the first president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association from 1885 to 1888. She worked closely with national leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton during this formative era in the women’s suffrage movement. John Stephen General Jack Casement (1829-1909) served with distinction in the Civil War, rising from major to brigadier general of the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was instrumental in the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, receiving the contract with his brother Daniel to lay the 1,044 miles of track for the Union Pacific Railroad between Fremont, Nebraska, and Promontory, Utah. As a territorial representative from Wyoming from 1868 to 1869, he lobbied for statehood and women’s suffrage, and women won the right to vote there in 1869.