BIO:  Joseph E. WIERMAN, Butler 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, Pages 387-388

JOSEPH E. WIERMAN, miller, P.O. Mummasburg, was born in the vicinity of York 
Springs, this county, May 4, 1837, and is a son of Joseph and Susan Wierman.  He 
was reared to milling, and in the schools of his district obtained a practical 
education.  After attaining his majority he worked in mills in the counties of 
Cumberland, York and Perry under instructions.  As his first business venture he 
leased and conducted his father’s mill, in 1876, one year; then the Bermudian 
Valley Mills, near Bragtown, three years; then Fred Asper’s mill, one year; and 
afterward the Deardorff mill, for one year; and in 1884 he purchased and took 
charge of his present property, the Willow Grove Mill.  Mr. Wierman is a 
practical miller and thoroughly conversant with every detail of the business.  
In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Infantry, and was in the battles of Chancellorsville and 
Fredericksburg, served his time of enlistment, nine months, and was honorably 
discharged.  He married, in 1880, Miss Anna Myers, an exemplary Christian lady, 
and a member of the Reformed Church.