PHILIP HUMERICK
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In the spring of 1856, Philip Humerick came into the township, bringing his family and household goods. He located on section 12, where he still resides.
Philip Humerick was horn in Germany, August 15, 1839. His parents, John T. and Johanna Mary (Strater) Humerick, came to America in 1843, locating, then, in Richland county, near Mansfield, Ohio. They removed to Jasper county, Iowa, in 1855, and the following spring, (1856) came to Cass county and settled on section 12, Atlantic township. John T. Humerick died in November, 1869, at the age of sixty-two years. He is buried in the Jameson cemetery. His widow, Mary Humerick is now living with her son, Philip, the subject of this sketch. Philip Humerick was married December 22, 1864, to Louisa Jane Coon, a native of Indiana, a daughter of Thomas and Jane (Lewis) Coon. Her father is now living in Washington township, Cass county. Her mother died in 1849, when Mrs. Humerick was three years old. Mrs. Coon is buried in White county, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Humerick have three children - John T., George F. and Effie May. Their daughter, Mary Johanna, died September 22, 1875, aged three years, three months and twenty-eight days. Mr. Humerick is still living upon the place where he first located in Atlantic. His land at the time of his purchase was wholly unimproved. He now has one hundred and seventy acres of good land, all cultivated, except some timber land. He built his present residence in 1876, and is now engaged in farming and stock raising.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 839-840.
