BIO:  Judge Isaac E. WIERMAN, Huntington Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 466

JUDGE ISAAC E. WIERMAN, P. O. York Sulphur Springs, is descended from German 
ancestry.  His great-grandfather, whose name was William, was a native of that 
country, and had a son, Nicholas, who was born in this section, a farmer, who 
built what is known as the Wierman Mill, in Huntington Township, about or 
previous to the year 1800, and which has always been owned and operated, and is 
at present, by one of the name.  Nicholas had a son Nicholas, who was born in 
1755, on the homestead at Wierman’s Mills, a house still standing on this site 
that was erected in 1772.  He was a farmer, owned some 430 acres, and also 
operated a mill.  He died in 1839, aged eighty-four years.  To him and his wife 
(nee Lydia Griest) nine children were born, as follows:  John, Thomas, Nicholas, 
Daniel, Joseph, Isaac E., Sarah, Susan and Phoebe T.  The mother of this family 
died in 1850, at about the age of ninety-two years.  She and her husband were 
members of the Society of Friends, and are buried in the graveyard of the 
Friends, in Latimore Township.  Judge Isaac E. Wierman, the subject of this 
sketch, a son of Nicholas and Lydia (Griest) Wierman, was born March 4, 1802, 
was reared on the old homestead in Huntington Township, and obtained a good 
common school education in the school a few steps from his father’s place, and 
remained with his father until 1832, when he moved to his present farm.  He had 
married, in 1831, Louisa Arnold, a daughter of Dr. John B. Arnold.  Judge 
Wierman has been a life-long Democrat, and has served his township in various 
offices.  He served as justice of the peace five years, and in 1860 was 
appointed, by Gov. Packer, associate county judge, to fill a vacancy for one 
year, at the expiration of which time he was elected associate county judge, and 
at the end of his term of service (five years) was re-elected, and has served 
the county eleven years in all.  He is a member of the Society of Friends.  His 
wife, who was a Presbyterian, died in August, 1880, aged seventy-two years.  
They had four children:  Sarah Virginia (now living with her father), John A. (a 
farmer of Huntington Township), Susan Emily (married to J. W. Neely, of Tyrone 
Township), and Harriet L. (who married P. A. Myers, and resides with her father 
on the old homestead).  Judge Wierman has always retained the confidence of the 
community in which he has resided; has been appointed and served as 
administrator for many estates, the affairs of which he has always attended to 
with fidelity and generally to the satisfaction of those concerned.  He was also 
appointed and acted as guardian of the interests of many minors.  He was 
appointed by the officers of the bankrupt court a receiver for the bankrupt 
estate of Joel Griest, of some $20,000, an office he filled to the best 
interests of the estate and creditors.