HENRY A. DETERMAN , farmer, P. O. Green Spring, was born in Adams Township, this county, December 25, 1851, son of Harman H. and Mary E. (Beinedick) Determan, natives of Germany, where they were married September 24, 1833, near Western Kapplen. They came to this country in 1834, and settled upon the land where the father still resides, and which he has improved with his own hands. Harman H. Determan reared a family of eight children, of whom four are now living, and all married: George, Samuel, Catherine E. and Henry A. Our subject, who is the youngest, was married, August 27, 1874, to Miss Mary A. Kistler, of Adams Township, this county, where she was born August 27, 1856, daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Shawberry) Kistler, early settlers in this county, where they still reside. Mr. and Mrs. Determan have one daughter, Dora A. Our subject has purchased eighty-four acres of good land, which he is improving in many ways. Mr. Determan is a member of the German Reformed Church, and Mrs. Determan of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.703
ADAMS TOWNSHIP