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HENRY HERMANN, a highly respected farmer of Clay Township, was born in Wittenburg, Germany, February 25, 1834. He is the oldest son of Jacob and Catharine (Kramer) Hermann, both natives of Germany. His father, who was a farmer, immigrated to the United States in 1852, and took up his home in Spencer County, where he died in August, 1881. His wife died in January of the same year. Henry worked at home, helping his father, until he and his father’s family came to America. He then worked in a wholesale dry goods house in Cincinnati for three years. In 1859, December 21, he married Christina Seiter, and located in Spencer County, where he bought forty acres of land. Six days after the fall of Fort Sumter he enlisted in Company A, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the famous battles of Pittsburg Landing and Stone River or Murfreesboro. In the latter battle he was quite badly wounded, and compelled to abandon active duty. He was discharged June 23, 1864, and returned home. Both he and wife are members of the Methodist Church.