REVEREND B. F. PEERMAN was born near Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 6, 1821. He was ordained a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church in 1857 and pastored a church in Virginia until after the Civil War. He brought his family to Cass County, Iowa in 1867, and settled on railroad land in the southeast part of Brighton Township. He later sold this improved farm and relocated in Shelby County and preached there and in Brighton Township, where he organized a Methodist Protestant fellowship and preached there in conjunction with his circuit in Shelby County. He remained with the Shelby County Circuit for two years then devoted his energies to the strengthening of the congregation in 1875 after the town of Marne was founded Reverend Peerman and his family moved to Marne and he pastored the congregation until 1877, when he assumed duties with a circuit in Pottawattamie County, though he maintained his residence here in Marne into the 1880's. On November 18, 1841, B. F. Peerman married Mary Jane Terrill in Marysville, Virginia, and the couple had six children, four of whom survived infancy - Mary, James, Thomas, and Lelia.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pp. 35-36. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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