[4][5] In the late 1850s, a group of Baltimore citizens, including Hermann's father, began to make plans to start a new life in the Oregon Territory.

[2][3] The younger Hermann wrote in his diary that he was fascinated by the politics and politicians his father brought him in contact with during that trip.

[2] In April 1859, led by Dr. Hermann, seven families and several single men, known as the Baltimore Colony, left to build a new life in Oregon's Coquille Valley.

[3] The Hermanns chose a homestead on the South Fork of the Coquille River where Broadbent is now located, growing tobacco, sugar beets, flax seed, and raising honeybees.

[2][3] Hermann later wrote in The Story of a Busy Life: "Discouraging as the accidents were, they only tended the more to inspire each one with new zeal and more determination to face the future.

[2] In 1884, Hermann was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's at-large congressional district.

Hermann did not seek reelection in 1896, and was appointed by President McKinley as Commissioner of the United States General Land Office in Washington, D.C.

A brief note on page 117 of James Underhill's book Mineral Land Surveying, 1906: Here it may be observed that for about five years between June 1899 and August 1904, the GLO required all claims to be figured according to their patented positions… regardless of the existence or position of the monuments on the ground.

[11]General Land Office Departmental Letter "N" indexed 2980, dated May 20, 1899, signed by Binger Hermann, Commissioner: The surveys referred to are the Portia, Silver Pine and Edison lodes, Sur.

Note: The Departmental Letter "N" takes the Colorado Surveyor General to task that he does NOT have the authority to "amend an approved survey upon alleged errors therein, reported by another deputy surveyor…" The GLO Commissioner required a careful examination of the two surveys and report, "in full as to what would be the result of an amendment of Sur.

If a report of other surveys was contained in the field notes, the ties were not calculated.Excerpt of United States General Land Office Departmental Letter "N" indexed 3125, dated June 17, 1899.

As provided by the Mining Reporter on February 4, 1904, seemingly endless examples of mineral survey misconstruction already existed, compromising the public lands, patented claims.

[14] Excerpt taken from the annual report prepared by Edward H. Anderson, Utah Surveyor General dated, June 30, 1901: "The Department of Interior holds that courses and distances once incorporated into a patent must be recognized in all subsequent conflicting & adjacent surveys, notwithstanding actual conditions on the ground to the contrary.

Mr. Anderson's statements are a stark reminder that the Binger Hermann policy is Cadastral vandalism of the official field notes, approved plat and patent.

Hermann was found not guilty of destroying public documents in 1907, but remained under indictment for collusion of a land deal in the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve in Oregon.

[15] Hermann returned to Roseburg, where he resumed his law practice and engaged in literary pursuits until his death.