BIO: John E. A. 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 LVI.

                        SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

539  SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

  JOHN E. A. HERMAN, farmer, P. O. Middlesex.  Cumberland Valley has no 
name of more antiquity and honor than that of Herman, and among the 
sons are men of high rank and great ability.  Martin Herman, a native 
of Germany, landed in Philadelphia, Penn., July 2, 1752, and on the 
15th of April, 1771, settled on a tract of land called "St. Martin's," 
in Silver Spring Township, this county, and this land, where he lived 
and died, has been in possession of his descendants one hundred and 
fifteen years.  He had two sons:  Christian and Martin.  Of these, 
Christian was born on the old homestead, and in the course of time 
became a large land-holder and prominent farmer, owning 640 acres of 
land.  He married Miss Elizabeth Bowers, and to them were born ten 
children:  John, Jacob, Mary, Ann, Martin, Christian, David, Elizabeth, 
Benjamin and Joseph.  He was a short, strong man physically, and died 
at the age of sixty-one years.  John, the eldest son of Christian 
Herman, was born on the old homestead in 1797, and passed his early 
life on the farm; was married, in 1818, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of 
George and Rachel (Leidigh) Beltzhoover, who bore him ten children:  
Christian, Rachel A., Henrietta, Manasseh, George T. B., John E. A., 
Margaret, Elizabeth, Joseph L. and Benjamin F.  In 1821 he, John 
Herman, bought his father's farm, in Silver Spring Township, this 
county.  He was a member of the Lutheran Church, serving as deacon and 
elder for many years.  He died aged sixty-three.  His son John E. A. 
Herman was born on the old homestead in March, 1836.  In 1859 he 
married Miss Eliza J., daughter of Daniel Fought, and to this union 
were born two children:  Mary E. and Bertha J.  Mrs. Herman died in 
1868, and March 13, 1873, our subject married Miss Lizzie A., daughter 
of Abraham and Elizabeth (Horner) Zeigler, of this county.  In 1865 he 
purchased a farm in Monroe Township, this county, where he lived three 
years.  In 1870 he purchased his present home in Silver Spring 
Township, a fine farm, pleasantly situated.  Mr. and Mrs. Herman are 
members of the Lutheran Church.  He is a man of excellent business 
habits, energetic and upright.  In politics he is a Democrat.