BIO: William HERMON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 347-348.
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  WILLIAM HERMON, a farmer in Cromwell township, Huntingdon county, was 
born December 4, 1855, on the farm he now owns, son of Frederick and 
Hannah (Irwin) Hermon. His grandfather, Frederick Hermon, was born in 
Adams county, Pa., and removed to Huntingdon county after his marriage, 
residing first in Shirley, later in Cromwell township, where he died 
upon the present homestead at the age fifty-five. He married Margaretta 
Neely; their children are: John, who died in the west; James, went west 
and died there; William, also died in the west; Hannah, deceased; 
Christiana, died in the west; Frederick; Caroline, widow of George 
Gilliland, of Cromwell township; and Jackson. Frederick Hermon went 
with his parents to the farm of 160 acres in Cromwell township now 
owned by William Hermon. His education was partly received in the 
subscription schools, but most of it he has acquired himself. After 
marriage with Hannah Irwin, he bought and improved his father's farm. 
His wife died in 1866, and later he married Keziah Galbraith, widow of 
Daniel Montague. She died January 18, 1894, at the age of seventy-four. 
Mr. Hermon died September 30, 1894, aged seventy-five years. He was not 
a church member, but inclined toward the Presbyterian denomination. He 
was a strong Republican and held many township offices. His children 
were: Mary Jane (Mrs. John Gifford), of Cromwell township, had nine 
children, three of whom are dead; William' Martha Melissa, of 
Orbisonia, Pa.; Lydia Belle, wife of N. P. Corbin, a clerk in a store 
in Huntingdon; and James N., of Colorado.
  William Hermon attended school during the winter until about twenty 
years of age, but worked on his father's farm during the summer. In 
Cromwell township, December 25, 1884, he married Alice, daughter of 
Abraham and Caroline (Gilliland) Bolinger. They now reside on the old 
home farm.