Tulare County Biographies

ANTHON G. HEERMAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Anthon G. Heerman, postmaster at Dinuba and for years one of the active 
and influential factors in the general commercial life of that flourishing 
little city; a veteran of the World war with an overseas record; and a prominent 
figure in the general social life of the community, has been a resident of 
California since the days of his childhood. He was born on a farm in York 
county, in southeastern Nebraska, May 14, 1889, and was but thirteen years of 
age when in 1902 he came to this state with his parents, the family settling in 
Modesto. From that place they moved to Fresno county, living for a while in 
Kingsburg and then in Selma, and it was thus that he acquired his early 
education in three different schools �those of Modesto, Kingsburg and Selma.
        As a lad Anthon G. Heerman took a particular interest in commercial 
forms, in which he had some special training. He then became a clerk in the 
First National Bank of Kingsburg and after a while transferred his services to 
the Bank of Coalinga in Coalinga, also in Fresno county. From that employment he 
presently was transferred to the offices of the Wells Fargo National Bank at San 
Francisco and in 1915 left that bank to become a clerk in the First National 
Bank of Dinuba, and was thus serving this latter bank when in 1917 America 
became engaged in war and called on the services of its young men in that 
behalf. Mr. Heerman got into the army and after a period of intensive training 
at Camp Kearney was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-third Artillery and 
with that command was sent overseas in August, 1918, and became a unit in the 
Fortieth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Though he thus 
got on the scene a bit too late for much active service at the front Mr. Heerman 
had some right interesting experiences in his service in the field and has some 
mighty good stories to tell in that connection.
        Mr. Heerman received his discharge from the army on January 24, 1919, 
and upon the completion of his military service returned to Dinuba and resumed 
his place in the office of the First National Bank of that city. Not long 
afterward he went into the mercantile business in Dinuba, a member of the firm 
of Loges & Heerman, clothing merchants, and was thus associated until in 1924, 
when he sold his interest in the store to his partner and took the civil service 
examination for eligibility to serve as postmaster. In April, 1924, Mr. Heerman 
was appointed postmaster and is now serving the community in that important 
public capacity. Mr. Heerman was one of the organizers of Alta Post No. 19, 
American Legion, in Dinuba, is a past commander of that post and a member of its 
board of directors. He also is a charter member of the locally influential Lions 
Club, in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest, and is a member of 
Dinuba Lodge No. 385, F. & A. M.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 298