WILLIAM KASTER was born in Hickory township, Mercer county,
Pa., November
12, 1840,
and is a son of Sealey and Mary (Shilling) Kaster, being the third of a family of five children born
to his parents. He was raised on his father's farm in his native county to
fourteen years of age and them came to Delaware county, Iowa, with his father, and remained with
him until he was twenty-one years old. He received a common-school education,
and for a livelihood has followed farming all his life. He settled where he now
resides in 1866 and owns one hundred and eighty acres in section 11, township
88, range 5, Delaware county,
where he now resides. Besides general farming he is doing considerable dairy
business, keeping about twenty-five cows. In 1885 he built his present
residence, a two-story frame, nicely located on high ground, and is here enjoying
every domestic felicity, having married November 18, 1865, Miss Arvilla A.Orvis, of Prairie
township, this county. She was born in DeKalb county,
Ill., October
15, 1848, and
is a daughter of Emrie P. and Caroline (Putnam) Orvis. Mr. Kaster and wife have
had born to them four children, viz.—Caroline M., now the wife of Benjamin F.
Cramer, a farmer in Delhi township, to whom has been born one daughter, Ada N.; Levi G.; single and at home; Mabel L., also single
and at home; Iola V., likewise living with her, parents and still unmarried.
Personally,
Mr. Kaster is kind and accommodating and has the
good will of all who know him.
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