Standard History of Adams & Wells Counties, Indiana – 1918
Tyndall & Lesh, Pages 507 & 508

HERBERT KASLER

A man of good business capacity and intelligence, far-sighted, and earnest in purpose, Herbert Kasler, a well-known farmer of Liberty Township, is identified not only with the agricultural development of Wells County, but with one of the leading industries of this section of the state, being superintendent of the interest of the Holland & St. Louis Sugar Beet Company, a responsible position which he is ably filling. A son of Austin and Jemima (Smith) Kasler, he was born December 2, 1872, in Athens County, Ohio, where his mother died several years ago, and where his father is still living.

Herbert Kasler was brought up on the home farm in Ohio and obtained his education in the country schools. Leaving home at the age of fourteen years, he came to Wells County, Indiana, in search of remunerative employment, and for about five years was employed on a farm in Liberty Township, receiving for his labor eight dollars a month and his board. Going then to Marion, Indiana, Mr. Kasler entered the rolling mills as a furnace helper, and during the three years he was employed in the mills mastered the details of the trade, having gradually worked his way upward through every department. After his marriage, he worked for awhile in a saw mill, later being employed at his trade. Returning then to Wells County, Mr. Kasler worked as a farm hand five years. Having accumulated some money, he then bought forty acres of land in Liberty Township, and subsequently purchased forty acres more, at the present time having a well-appointed farm of eighty acres, on which he is raising satisfactory crops, his land responding readily to culture. Becoming sure that sugar beets would prove a profitable crop, he began raising them, and others soon followed his example, the venture proving very successful. Subsequently Mr. Kasler was chose superintendent of the Holland & St. Louis Sugar Beet Company’s interest in the counties above named, and in that capacity is efficiently aiding the development of the industry, which is of great help to the farms of this vicinity.

Mr. Kasler married Miss Minnie Cole, April 21, 1895, and of their union five sons have been born, namely: Charles, Glenn, Rex, Max, and Dean. The youngest son is now a pupil in the grade schools, and the others have all attended the Liberty Center High School, from which Glenn was graduated. Mr. And Mrs. Kasler are also rearing a boy, Leo Cole, an orphan, and a nephew of Mrs. Kasler. Mr. Kasler and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, of which he is a trustee. He is a prohibitionist, and was the nominee of his party for sheriff of Wells County, receiving a comparatively large number of votes.