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My own Amann family came from Baden also, but from Sasbach along the Rhein or Rhine River. No connection is known to this AMAN family...
Centennial Biographical Record of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio – 1896 – Pages 376-77
JOHN AMAN, a prominent citizen of Dayton, was born in Koenigheim, in the grand duchy of Baden, German, October 16, 1836, and is a son of Frank and Sophia Aman, both natives of Germany. Emigrating to the United States the family landed at Baltimore, Md., October 4, 1852, going from there to Washington, D.C., where they located permanently, and where Frank Aman followed his trade, that of tailor, until the time of his death, which occurred in 1855. Mrs. Aman died there in 1865, and both are buried in Washington. They were the parents of four children, as follows: Andrew, now a resident of Hyattsville, Prince George’s county, Md., and who has been in the railroad service for more than forty years; Martin, who was accidently shot at Wabash, Ind., in 1861, died from the effects of the wound and is buried in Dayton; John, the subject of this sketch, and Sebastian, who was a well-known restaurant keeper of Washington, and died February 20, 1895.
John Aman received most of his education in his native town in Baden, but attended night school during one winter in Dayton. While in Washington he learned the cabinetmaker’s trade, working for one employer for five consecutive years. In 1857 he removed to Dayton, and there entered the service of the Dutton Agricultural works, and after six months’ employment in connection with this firm, became an employee of the Barney & Smith Manufacturing company. In 1858 he want to Richmond, Ind., where during the summer of that year he worked at house carpentering. In December, 1858, he was married to Mary Goellner, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, the marriage taking place in Dayton. After spending the succeeding winter in Richmond he returned to Dayton and resumed his position in the car works of Barney & Smith, remaining with them until November, 1881, and having been foreman during the last nine years of his service there.
In 1882 he purchased a lot on the corner of Johnston and Perrine streets, and built his present place of business, where he has ever since carried on business as a retail grocer. Politically Mr. Aman has always been a strong democrat and as such has been both active and prominent in city politics for many years. In 1867 he was elected to the city council from the Sixth ward, and served two years. In 1870 he was elected to the board of education from the Eleventh ward, the boundaries having been so changed as to throw his residence into this ward. In 1872 he was re-elected to that office for a second term of two years. In 1882 he was elected assessor of the Eleventh ward, serving one year. In 1885 he was elected from the Seventh ward to the city board of education, and was twice re-elected, thus serving six years consecutively at this time, or ten years in all. In 1890 he was elected infirmary director and was re-elected in 1893. In all of these offices Mr. Aman has proved himself efficient and alive to duty, laboring for the good of those whom he represented, rather for his own aggrandizement.
To the marriage of Mr. Aman and his wife there have been born eight children, as follows: Annie, wife of Joseph Unger, of Dayton; Carrie, wife of Dennis J. Madden, of Dayton; Louisa, widow of William Roney; John, Jr., cornice worker of Dayton; Emma, wife of William Staffen, of Dayton; Josephine, wife of Eugene Chapin, of Dayton; William, an employee of the National Cash Register company, of Dayton, and Charles, also with the Cash Register company. Mr. Aman is a member of Humboldt lodge, No. 58, Knights of Pythias, and of Dayton lodge, A. O. U. W. He was one of the charter members of the Baden society of Dayton, and in all of these societies is not only in good standing but is a man of usefulness and influence. He was secretary of the Miami, the Union and the Montgomery Building & Loan Associations, all of which have now gone out of existence through the terms of their organization.
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