The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie, 
BY WILLIAM KITTLE, MADISON, WIS. 
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO. 1900.

JOHN PARMAN was born in Mecklenburg Schwerin, Prussia, in 
1826, and came to Black Earth in 1853. He stayed there on 
a farm until 1864, when he came to the village of 
Mazomanie and began a wagon and blacksmith shop. He 
continued this business until 1884, when he bought a farm 
a mile west of the village. He married Miss Louise Sievert 
in Prussia in 1853. The children are: Alwina, now Mrs. 
Kern, in Montana, Wis.; Autie and Aaron on the farm; 
Abraham, who has been assessor for the last two years, 
also on the farm; Ida, instructor in Latin and German in 
the high school at Brodhead, Wis., for the last five 
years.

Submitted by Randi McCartney