When Heinrich Friedrich Biermann was born on 20 December 1818, in Wenden, Nienburg, Hanover, Prussia, Germany, his father, Jürgen Heinrich Beermann, was 41 and his mother, Catharina Margarethe Hörmann, was 40. He married Sophie Dorothee Charlotte Fischer about 1842, in Westphalia, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bremen, Randolph, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 13 September 1915, in Welge, Randolph, Illinois, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Bremen, Randolph, Illinois, United States.