Sig Herrmann, conducting a successful tailoring business in New Haven, was born in Saaz, Bohemia, June 9, 1866, a son of Jacob and Anna (Freund) Herrmann. The father engaged in merchandising in Bavaria and is still living there at the very advanced age of ninety-four years, but his wife passed away in that country in 1909. In the family were eight children, of whom Sig Herrmann was the youngest.
     In his boyhood days he attended school in his native country and was about ten years when his parents removed to Bavaria, after which he learned the tailor's trade, serving an apprenticeship which he begun at the age of fourteen years. He was a youth of sixteen when he crossed the Atlantic to America in 1882, and after reaching the new world he worked at his trade in New Haven, being thus employed until he attained his majority, when he went to New York city, where he served in the capacity of a cutter. He remained in the metropolis for five years, after which he established himself in the tailoring business in New Haven in 1893. He began business in a small way but has developed one of the largest tailoring establishments of the city and has won a place among New Haven's representative business men. He holds to the highest standards in his business, both in workmanship and in design. His prices are reasonable, his goods thoroughly attractive and his lines show the latest designs known to the tailoring trade. His record is that of a self-made man and he deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, as he has depended entirely upon his own resources for advancement in the business world.
    On the 17th of March, 1895, Mr. Herrmann was united in marriage to Miss Caroline G. Weil, of New Haven, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Weil. Mrs. Herrmann passed away in New Haven, November 7, 1914. There were three children born of that union: Julius B., born in 1896, was graduated June 20, 1917, from the Sheffield Scientific School; Albert M., born in 1898, is a freshman attending the Sheffield Scientific School and it is expected that he, too, will complete a full course at Yale. Bertha Louise, born in May, 1904, is a student in the public schools.
     Politically Mr. Herrmann is not allied with any party but maintains an independent course. He is identified with the Fraternal Order of Eagles, also with the Red Men and the Woodmen of the World, and he is widely and favorably known in these different organizations. He has many sterling qualities which have gained him the thorough respect and high regard of his business associates and have won him the warm friendship of many with whom he has been brought in contact.