Representative from Boone county, was born in Boone, Iowa, on the twenty-seventh day of March, 1868, his parents being John M. and Anna (Spring) Herman. Attended school in Boone, supplementing his early educational training by taking a course in the Iowa State College at Ames. He began his business career by accepting a position in the First National Bank, in which he served as bookkeeper and later was for about a year connected with the post office. In 1888 he decided to establish himself independently and associated himself with Canier Brothers, the leading shoe merchants of Boone, with whom he was actively and successfully engaged in business until 1905. In that year he accepted the position of cashier of the Security Savings Bank and in that capacity has since been identified with the institution. He is a director in the First National Bank, Security Savings Bank, and Boone Brick and Tile Paving Company, and a stockholder in the Boone County Telephone Company. Was married November 4, 1896, in Kansas City, to Katherine Hungerford of Burlington, Vermont. Is a member of the Elks lodge. A democrat in politics.
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