Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Casler, George H. June 5, 1835 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Geo. H. Casler, Warren, was born June 5, 1835, in the town of Warren, and is a 
son of Adam Casler, whose father was also Adam, a pioneer of Minden, 
Montgomery county.  Adam, jr., was born October 30, 1802, and after his 
marriage came to Warren, where he lived until a few years before his death.  
Then he went to Columbia, where he died October 24, 1863.  His wife was 
Barbara Snyder, who was born October 26, 1803, and died April 22, 1872, at the 
home of her son, George H.  She bore him ten children:  Lucinda, born August 
26, 1824; Catherine, born June 12, 1826; Almira, born June 30, 1828; Charity, 
born August 9, 1830; Betey M., born June 21, 1833 (died at the age of two 
years); George H., born June 5, 1835; Diana, born March 25, 1836; James M., 
born March 26, 1838; Julia, born February 16, 1840 (died in childhood); Mary 
J., born December 4, 1842 (died at the age of eight years).  Geo. H. Casler at 
the age of nine, was bound out to Geo. M. Cleeland, until twenty-one, for $150 
and schooling.  He worked out by the month until married and then rented farms 
on shares until 1867, when he bought one hundred acres where he now lives.  He 
now owns three hundred acres.  He is a Republican and has held the office of 
collector for one year and poormaster for thirteen years, of which he is now 
serving.  He married, November 2, 1856, Betsey, daughter of Issac and Leah 
(Bonner) Maxfield, and has had three children:  Myron J., born November 8, 
1858, and married, first, Libbie Shaver, who bore him two children, Willie and 
Georgie, and second, married Alice Guyer, who bore him one child, Edna 
Blanche.  Charles E. was born December 31, 1860;  he married Estella Ecker, 
who bore him two children, Ray and Lee.  And Libbie Leah, born May 15, 1869.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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