History of Lonaconing, (Allegany County) Maryland United States of America

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Binger Hermann, representative, was born in Lonaconing, Allegany county. Md., Feb. 19, 1843; son of Dr. Henry and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Hermann. His father, a native of Hessecassel, Germany, was a professor of the University of Marburg, in the electorate of Hessecassel. His maternal grandfather, David Hopkins, was superintendent of the first iron furnace in western Maryland. Binger was educated at the district schools and at the Independent academy, afterward Irving college, near Baltimore city, Md. In the spring of 1859 he removed to the west with his father, a prominent physician, who, the previous fall, had been commissioned by a colony of Marylanders and Pennsylvanians to seek a location for a settlement in the Oregon country. Binger taught schools on the Oregon frontier, while assisting in the clearing away of the forests for a pioneer home, and thereafter studied law. He was admitted to the supreme court of Oregon in 1866, and practised law in Roseburg, Ore. He was elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1866, and was state senator in 1868 and 1871. He was appointed by President Grant receiver of public moneys at the U.S. land office at Roseburg, and served as such, 1871-73. He was judge-advocate, with the rank of colonel, in the state militia, 1882-84. He was a representative from Oregon in the 49th, 50th, 51st, 52d, 53d and 54th congresses, 1885-97, and during this period be was prominently identified with the waterway improvements of the nation, being a member of the river and harbor committee for a number of years, and of the committee on public lands, and was later chairman of the committee on arid lands. At the close of the 54th congress be was appointed by President McKinley commissioner of the general land office.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Lonaconing, (Allegany County) Maryland

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