Amador County Biographies

FRANKLIN HERMAN

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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The subject of the following sketch is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born in Franklin county, 
February 27, 1830. When five years of age he removed with his parents to the wilds of Ohio, where 
he remained until he entered the army, and engaged in the war with Mexico. His education was received 
in the common schools, and leaving school and friends at such an early age, he was necessarily 
deprived of advantages in that line. He, however, obtained a thorough knowledge of the common 
branches, and with his one year's service in the army placed himself on a fair footing with many who 
received more advantageous schooling. 

At the expiration of his term of service he returned to Ohio, where he remained about two years. He 
was married when quite young to Miss Mary G. Dreisbach, a native of Ohio, and soon after started 
with his bride for the Pacific coast, and located at Shasta in 1853, where he remained about four 
months. He is by trade a blacksmith, a business he has followed during all his life on this coast. Upon 
leaving Shasta he settled at Sutter Creek, Amador county, where he has since resided. 

Mr. Herman is at the present time engaged by the Mahoney Mining Company, as a true son of Vulcan. 
He has very few superiors, and is withal a gentleman in whom repose the respect and confidence of all 
who know him. His family consists of himself, wife and two children, a son and daughter. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.