The Proeger Family · Generation 7 — Kristin's 4th-great-grandparents

B. John Herman

Father of Sophia Herman · 1816–1891

B. John Herman

Confirmed

Father of Sophia Herman · 1816–1891

Born
16 November 1816 in Prussia
Died
28 March 1891 at Meservey
Married
John Peters
Children
Sophia Herman
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED on the family’s account as the father of Sophia Herman, by the compiled family chart sent on 13 October 2026 by LaVonne Danielson, a descendant S1783 Confirmed. Husband of Maria Neuendorf; grandfather of Benjamin Peters (1881–1957).

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1816
Born 16 November 1816 in Prussia; died 28 March 1891 at Meservey, Iowa, by the chart S1783, which gives the county as Cerro Gordo (Meservey lies on the Cerro Gordo–Franklin line). The Peters–Hermann line page, from another family tree, has him born in Baden-Württemberg; the chart says Prussia. Both are shown. The chart names his mother only as “Mary Herman”.
Record2026
The only source so far is that compiled chart, entered as Confirmed by Earl Proeger’s decision of 13 October 2026 that what LaVonne Danielson contributes is verified. No record read here names him by these dates yet. His 1891 burial at Meservey (the cemetery record or a Franklin or Cerro Gordo County death register) would confirm him independently, and the 1861 passenger list of the Electric S1532 already fits. The queue row PETERS-CARDS-1014 names both. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Children1843
Children by the chart S1783: Sophia Herman (July 1843, Mecklenburg – about 1900, Alexander, Iowa), wife of John Peters; and Fredrick Herman (about 1845, Prussia), who married a Caroline in 1880.
Children2026
History of this card. 14 Oct 2026
card made from the compiled family chart sent by LaVonne Danielson (S1783, group sheet F684 read 14 Oct 2026); until this day he was named only on his daughter Sophia Herman’s card and the Peters–Hermann line page.

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
Probably him: J. Hermann, 44, who landed at New York from the ship Electric in December 1861 with Maria, 44, and Sophia, 17 Probable confirm or correct → S1532. The chart itself points to that list (passengers 60 to 63). Evidence: names and ages fit a man born in 1816. Weak: the list gives no birthplace or village.
Cited on this card S1532 S1783 Card added 2026-10-14

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B. John Herman · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

2 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S1532New York passenger list, ship Electric from Hamburg, arrived 14 December 1861, lines 59–63 — the Hermann family. Ancestry, “New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820–1957”, record 2277787. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Probable J. Hermann, 44, a farmer; Maria, 44; Friedrich, 16; and Sophia, 17; between decks; arrived at New York on 14 December 1861. Name and age only; nothing on the list ties her to John Peters.
  2. S1783Compiled family chart — “Family: Benjamin Peters / Edna Blanche Orsborn (F492)”, in the “Toni Walker Family Tree” on Canadian Families, a website hosted by Ontario Ancestors (the Ontario Genealogical Society). ontariofamilyhistory.org, family F492, tree 93228; pages last modified 22 January 2025. Sent to this record on 13 October 2026 by LaVonne Danielson, a great-granddaughter of the couple, who had it from a relative. Read by us on 13 October 2026: the group sheets of this family, of both sets of parents (F20, F585) and of the children’s own families, and the person pages. Confirmed Benjamin Peters, born 12 December “1881/2” at Cedar Falls, Iowa, died about 1957 at Sioux Rapids, son of John Charles Johann Peters and Sophia Herman; Edna Blanche Orsborn, born 7 May 1884 at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, died about 1942 at Marathon, daughter of John W. Orsborn and Arimena (Minnie) Howard; married 1 April 1903 at Alexander, Franklin County, “at the residence of Ray Pence, Meservey, Iowa”, by the Rev. J. C. Shirk; five children, Eva M., Benjamin La Roy, Clifford L., Hazel F. and Russell Ray. A compiled tree, not a record: it cites census pages, church registers and other Ancestry trees, and none of its own sources has been read here. By Earl Proeger’s decision of 13 October 2026, what LaVonne Danielson contributes to this record is taken as verified, and what the chart alone carries is entered as Confirmed on the family’s account. Where the chart and a record read here disagree, both are shown and the record stands: John W. Orsborn’s birth (chart 1852, Kentucky; his own 1921 statement 1 June 1848, Cleves, Ohio, S1075), Frank Peters’s death (chart 21 September 1931; certificate 2 September, S1009) and the child of 12 March 1884 (chart a daughter, Clara; birth return a son, S998). It prints both 1881 and 1882 for Benjamin Peters’s birth and so settles nothing between them. Living people on the chart are shown there only as “Living” and are not taken from it.

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