BIO: A. A. WIERMAN, Butler Township, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 387 A. A. WIERMAN, miller, P.O. Arendtsville, was born at York Springs, Adams County, in 1827, and is a son of Joseph Wierman, who was a son of Nicholas Wierman, an early settler of Huntington Township. Our subject was reared on the farm and in the mill, and received a good education. In 1856 he went West and visited many places of interest. Returning in 1859 he commenced milling in Huntington Township, where he was engaged until 1866, at which time he purchased his present mill property, with eighty acres of land, formerly owned by the well-known Isaac Wierman. He is an energetic, enterprising gentleman, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his many acquaintances. Mr. Wierman has been twice married - first in 1859, to Mary J., daughter of John Day, and by her he had two children: Edward and Mary J. Mrs. Wierman died in 1879, aged forty- one years. He was married to his second wife, Ellen, daughter of William Heller, in 1881, and two children have been born to this union: Zora and Maude. Mr. Wierman is a member of the Society of Friends, and his estimable wife is a member of the Methodist Church. He is well posted in the current affairs of the day, and politically he is a Republican, and votes with that party on all questions of National importance.