J. Peter Herman
Biography from Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, PA, page 1171
Submitted by Suzanne NobleJ. PETER HERMAN, the proprietor of the Gordonville Warehouse and Elevator, is a farmer, who is also engaged quite extensively in the produce business. He was born in Snyder county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1855, and is a son of Jacob and Nancy (Breon) Herman, both of Snyder county. After their marriage, his parents moved to Union county, Pennsylvania., where the father died in 1871, at the age of fifty-five. His widow is now living in Union county, at the venerable age of eighty-three. They were members of the Lutheran Church. Born to this couple were: Joseph, a farmer in Union county; as were his brothers, Noah, Jesse, and Henry; George, who died in infancy; Maggie, who married Levi Oberlin, a farmer of Earl township; Lucy, deceased, wife of Charles Leiby; J. Peter; Ada O., married to William Lynch. The paternal grandparents of J. P. Herman were natives of Germany.
J. Peter Herman and Hannah F. Snyder were united in matrimony in Christ Church, Leacock township, Dec. 20, 1883, and to their union have come Samuel S., Leon, Arthur S., and John F.
Mrs. Hannah F. Herman was born in Paradise township in September, 1856, and is a daughter of Aaron and Hannah ( Fenninger) Snyder. Her father was born in Germany and her mother in Lancaster county. Aaron Snyder came from Germany with his parents when a boy, and located in Leacock township, where he learned the butcher trade. he was killed in 1871 while walking the railroad track at McIlvaine's Quarries, and died at the age of forty-five. His widow died in 1881, at the age of sixty years. They were both members of the Episcopal Church. Born to them were the following children: Sarah, who died unmarried at the age of forty-two years; Jane, living unmarried in Lancaster; Samuel, who died at the age of fifty-three; Rebecca is unmarried and has her home in Lancaster; Hannah F.
Mr. Herman remained on his parents' home place until he reached the age of twenty-one, when he spent a year in the employ of a neighboring farmer, coming into Lancaster at the expiration of that period, to be employed in farm work two years. As a dealer of produce, he was busy some five years in Leacock township on the Old Road, and then coming to Gordonville established himself as a farmer and a produce dealer. In April, 1901, he added the warehouse and elevator to his present business, carrying along all three lines with decided success. Mr. Herman has fought his way to his present enviable position, without a dollar or an influential friend; his strength, character, and industry have made him what he is. Many are his friends, and the respect in which he is held is very marked. In his politics he is a Democrat.
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