Herbert William Stoller was born June 20, 1896, in Fairbury, Illinois. He was the son of John Albert Stoller, born September 15, 1863, in Bern, Switzerland, and Louise M. (Mangold) Stoller, born December 6, 1870, in France. The couple was married in 1892.
By 1900, John and Louise had four children: Leona, born in July 1894; Herbert, born in 1896; Michael, born in 1898; and Daniel, born in 1899. At that time, the family was living on Ash Street in Indian Grove, Livingston County, Illinois, where John was engaged in the hardware business.
By 1910, the Stoller family had moved to Waldo, Illinois. John had taken up farming, and the family had grown. Carl was born in 1900, John in 1901, Juliet in 1903, Ezra in 1905, Mary in 1907, and Robert in 1910…