Henry Mersman was born on 23 November 1821, in Hauenhorst, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. His baptism name was Gerhard Henry Mersman. He was the son of Johan Gerhard Mersman and Catherina Rahmeier. He was baptized in Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany on 23 November 1821. Godparents Bernard Henrich Trickler and Maria Elisabeth Mersman.

Circa 1845 Henry Mersman immigrated from Rheine, Germany to USA. The listing indicates that the date of immigration is not known.

On Thursday, 4 November 1847 in St. John the Baptist in Glandorf, Ohio, USA, at age 25, Henry Mersman married Maria Elisabeth Recker, age 18, daughter of Nicholas Heinrich Recker and Mary Gertrude Schroeder.

Henry is the head of a family on the 19 August 1850 Census in Ottawa Township, Ohio. Henry 28 and his wife Elizabeth 21, both natives of Germany, are living with their daughter, Theresia. Henry's occupation is "merchant". Value of their real estate is $150.

He died on 29 December 1853 in Glandorf, Ohio, USA at age 32.5



Children of Henry Mersman and Maria Elisabeth Recker

* Theresa Mersman+ b. 25 Sep 1848
* George Mersman+ b. 18 Feb 1851, d. 8 Jun 1925
* Maria Catherina Mersman b. 6 Aug 1853
Per the book "A Glandorf Album" by Michael E. Leach pg 115 with photo:

"Opposite the Glandorf Depot, George Henry Merschman, in 1892, founded an elevator and used the railroad for shipping. His father, Henry Mershman, had worked on the canal, been a partner with a Mr. Meyers in a sawmill, owned a grist mill, a general store, and had been involved in the earlier stock yards and pork packing plant on the site of the Glandorf Depot. After Mershman's death, the mill was operated by his heirs, the Kohls family."∼Henry Mersmann

Wife: Mary E. (Recker) Mersman.

The father of Bernard Mersman died in Germany, and a year or so after Bernard came to this country, his mother also came here and made her home with one of her daughters, Mrs. Meyers, in Putnam county, until her death, Jan. 2, 1877, at the advanced age of ninety-six.