BIO: Alfred J. Herman, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

381  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  ALFRED J. HERMAN, M. D., physician and surgeon, Carlisle, was born 
near Pottstown, Montgomery Co., Penn., in May, 1815, a son of Frederick 
L. and Mary (Fite) Herman; former a native of Germany, latter of New 
Jersey.  Frederick L., when a young man, was sent to America as a 
missionary of the Reformed Church, of which he was a minister.  Eight 
sons and five daughters were born to Frederick L. and Mary Herman, 
Alfred J. being next to the youngest son.  Our subject, until sixteen 
years of age, attended the college at Pottstown, which had been 
established by his father for the education of young men for the 
ministry; then began the study of medicine with Dr. David Rutter, of 
Pottstown, who, some two years and a half later, received a 
professorship at Chicago, and young Herman then accepted a partnership 
with Dr. Slemm, a physician of Kutztown, Berks County, Penn., and in 
1846 was graduated from the University of Medicine at Philadelphia.  He 
practiced medicine in connection with his partner at Kutztown until the 
fall of 1846, when he settled in Middlesex, Cumberland County, where he 
remained some four years; then located at Sterrett's Gap with the 
intention of establishing a hydropathic institution, but was kept too 
busy with his patients.  In 1852 he located in Carlisle, where he has 
since followed his profession.  At the organization of the Cumberland 
County Medical Society, Dr. Herman took an active part, and has since 
taken a deep interest in its success.  He has served as its resident 
physician, and otherwise officiated in its meetings.  In January, 1886, 
he was elected an honorary member of the society.  He is also a member 
of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and a life member of the 
American Medical Association, to the latter of which he has been three 
times a delegate.  Dr. Herman stands high as a physician, and has 
enjoyed an extensive practice.  He is a member of the Reformed Church.