San Diego County CA Archives Obituaries.....Ackerman, William Fletcher  1888
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Escondido Times, March 15, 1888
The late Dr. William Fletcher Ackerman, who departed this life on Monday 
evening, the 12th inst., was born at Mount Vernon, West Chester County, New 
York, on Nov. 13, 1858. He was an only child. At the age of fifteen he was 
called upon to mourn the loss of his indulgent father. When seventeen years of 
age he entered the University of New York, where he distinguished himself as an 
active and accurate scholar, and at the close of the full course in 1879 
graduated with high honors, receiving the degree master of arts. Throughout the 
course he earned the distinction of honor-man and at the graduating ceremonies 
delivered the Greek salutatory. He immediatelu entered Bellevue Medical College 
and completed the full course of three years, during the whole time being upon 
the books as an honorable member. Here he developed more than ordinary ability 
and talent, and above all displayed a natural aptitude for the profession he 
had chosen. At the close of his course he graduated with distinction and 
obtained the degree doctor of medicine, after which he was accorded a position 
in Bellevue Hospital, first as ambulance and then as regular ohysician and 
surgeon, where he remained for two years. He then practiced medicine for about 
two years in New York City, or untill he came to Escondido.
	During his entire experience he was remarkably successful both as a 
physician and surgeon, and won the confidence of his patients and the esteem 
and approval of his fellow practitioners, by whom he was universally pronounced 
a practitioner of far above the ordinary ability and skill, and much was 
expected of his career in life. In complicated and serious cases which he had 
treated and advised upon, when examined in San Francisco by the most 
distinguished doctors, his treatment and diagnosis were approved and commended 
in the highest terms.
	On December 27th last he was joined in matrimony with an estimable 
lady, Miss Mattie A. Bucklaod, of Cazenovia, N.Y., who now, with his aged 
mother, sorely mourns his early death. His fatel illness, which was very brief, 
being less than a week, was edema of the lungs, complicated with congestion of 
the brain. The mortal remains, which were buried with Pythian honors, were 
deposited in the Escondido cemetery.


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