M. V. NUSSBAUM
Rev. B.F. Peerman was born near Lynchburg, Virginia, March 6, 1821, and is a son of D.P. and Priscilla (Harrison) Peerman. D.P. Peerman was a shoemaker by occupation, and died in Virginia. Mrs. Peerman also died in that State. The subject of this sketch spent his early life, and obtained his education in his native State. He prepared himself for the ministry of the Protestant Methodist church and was ordained November 5, 1857. He began his ministerial labors in Virginia and continued preaching there until after the war, occupying one pulpit during the whole time. He came to Cass county, Iowa in 1867, and settled in Brighton township, near Atlantic, on railroad land. Here he improved a farm which he subsequently sold; and bought more land, which he also improved and sold. He then went to Shelby county and bought a farm on which he located. During his residence there he preached in that county, also at Marne. He remained there two years, then by request of the church at Marne, came here and remained one year in charge. He then built up a circuit in Pottawattamie county, of which he has charge, although a resident of Marne still. He was married in Marysville, Virginia, November 18, 1841, to Mary Jane Terrell, a native of that State, daughter of William and Mary (Blankinshift) Terrell, who died in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Peerman have had six children, four of whom are living...Mary P., born in 1844; James A., born in 1850; Thomas F., born in 1854 and Lelia v., born in 1861. Mr. Peerman is a man of much ability, an earnest christian and a successful worker in the vineyard of the Master.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani 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. 615-616.
