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Cass County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri . As of 2010, the population was 99,478. Its county seat is Harrisonville . The county was organized in 1835 as "Van Buren County", renamed in 1848 after Michigan U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Lewis Cass .
The Harrisonville area was originally inhabited by the "Dhegilha" Indians subgroup. Being of Siouan linguistic stock, the Osage , Quapaw , Omaha , Ponca and Kansa tribes comprise this subgroup. The Kansa tribal range extended southward from the Kansas-Missouri River junction as far as the northern edge of Bates County, Missouri, taking in the sites of modern Pleasant Hill, Garden City, Archie and Drexel. On their southeastern border they were neighbors of the Osage, although there is no evidence that either of these tribes ever had a truly permanent settlement in the territory of Cass County. At early camp meetings southwest of Harrisonville after Americans came, as many as five hundred Indians were often in attendance and seemed to enjoy religious services as much as the whites , with whom they mingled on such occasions. These Indians were reportedly Shawnees and Delawares , both of Algonquian linguistic stock. In 1818 a grant of land in southern Missouri was made to some Delawares, but it was re-ceded by them in 1825, and most of them moved to a reservation in Kansas, while others had previously gone to Texas. Those who remained in the Harrisonville area were close relatives of the Sauk , Fox and Kickapoo tribes. The first American settler on the site of modern Harrisonville was James Lackey, in 1830. Others early settlers were Humphrey Hunt, John Blythe and Dr.
