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I am not related. This came from The Portrait and Biographical History of Boone County Indiana.
Isaac N. Caster , of Jefferson Township, Boone County, Indiana, was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, July 21, 1843, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Robbins) Caster, the former of whom was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, and was a son of Isaac Caster, a native of New Jersey, but subsequently a resident of Kentucky and Indiana, in which last named state he died March 12, 1874. John Caster came from Kentucky with his parents to Indiana and was educated in the pioneer schools of Montgomery County, and here married Elizabeth Robbins, a daughter of Jared R. and Barbara (Carr) Robbins and a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky. John Caster was here engaged in farming until his death, May 9, 1863, in the Baptist faith; his widow survived him until August 13, 1868, when she expired in the faith of the Presbyterian Church. There were born to them five children, named as follows: Abraham, Isaac N., Jacob, Charity (wife of John Trimble), and Sarah (wife of John Finch), all of Montgomery County, Indiana.
Isaac N. Caster was reared on the home farm and attended the old-fashioned schoolhouse until seventeen years of age, when, July 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Seventy-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Carr, and was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. He participated in the battles of Stone River and Hoover's Gap, and, while on the march from Murfreesboro to Glasgow, was taken ill with chronic diarrhea, and was confined six week s in the hospital at Murfreesboro; at the end of that period he was honorably discharged from the service on account of disability, in September 1863. He rested in Montgomery County, Indiana, until June 1864, when having recuperated, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred days, at the end of which time he was again honorably discharged. In 1868 he entered Wabash College and attended two terms. With his brothers he engaged in farming on the home place until 1877, when he married, February 1, Miss Mary Moore, who was born in Boone County, Indiana, November 7, 1848, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Ross) Moore, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively. On marrying, Mr. Caster resided in Franklin Township until 1879, when he came to Boone County, Indiana, and located on his present beautiful farm of 160 acres, still owning, however, ninety acres in Montgomery County.
Mr. Caster has for many years been an active and ardent Republican, and has always been a favorite leader of his party. In 1888 he was elected, by a majority of 600 votes, to the State Senate of Indiana, and served in the sessions of 1889 and 1891. While a member of that august body he was active and efficient, and introduced a number of important bills, among them one prohibiting the sale of tobacco, cigarettes, etc., to boys under sixteen years of age, and also a bill to limit fares on railroads, etc., showing that he had at heart the welfare of the entire community. In religious faith, Mr. Caster is a Presbyterian, and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 124 of Thorntown, and of the Grand Army of the Republic Post, No. 184, of the same place. As a farmer he is the peer of any agriculturist in the county of Boone. Socially, Mr. and Mrs. Caster enjoy the friendship of a wide circle of acquaintances, and no family in the community is more highly esteemed.
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