Payette County ID Archives Biographies.....Ackerman, B. F. 1857 - 1932
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Author: James H. Hawley

History of Idaho, Gem of the Mountains
James H. Hawley
S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, 1920

B. F. ACKERMAN

B. F. Ackerman, agent for the Payette Mills, Inc., at New Plymouth, is a 
representative of an old Swiss family.  He was born in Switzerland on Sunday 
July 12, 1857, his parents being Antone and May Ann Ackerman, who came to 
America in 1883 and settled at Herman, Nebraska, where the father followed 
farming for four years.  The mother then passed away and the father afterward 
returned to Switzerland, where his death occurred.

B. F. Ackerman remained in the Land of the Alps until 1880, when , crossing 
the Atlantic, he established his home in Nebraska, being then a young man of 
twenty-three years.  There he followed farming for six years, after which he 
took up his abode at Blair, Nebraska, and became foreman of a horse collar 
factory, there serving for fifteen years.  In 1903 he came to Idaho, settling 
at New Plymouth.  He purchased ten acres a mile west of the town and followed 
farming for six years, after which he engaged in the furniture business in New 
Plymouth for a decade, when he sold out and retired.  But indolence and 
idleness are utterly foreign to his nature and he could not content himself 
with out some occupation, so he accepted the agency for the Payette Mills, 
Inc., and is now capably filling that position.

In 1883 Mr. Ackerman married Miss Anna Wachter, whose parents are residents of 
Nebraska, and to this union eight children have been born.  Marie is manager 
of the telephone office at New Plymouth.  Arnold J., thirty-three years of 
age, has just returned from France, where he served as a second lieutenant in 
company D, Machine Gun Battalion, first Division, and was in a number of the 
fiercest drives.  He has been in the United States army for three years and 
was on the Mexican border.  Florence is the wife of E. F. Meyer and the mother 
of four children, Ruth, Phillip, Edna and Paul Eugene.  Arthur P., twenty-six 
years of  age, married Marilla Hannigan and they have one child, Betty Ann.  
Gertrude is a stenographer and has recently returned from Spokane.  Margaret 
is taking training in nursing.  Louis, seventeen years of age is at home.  
William is working in the elevator office with his father.  The family occupy 
an attractive residence on West boulevard in New Plymouth and are most 
comfortably situated.

Mr. Ackerman has led a busy and useful life.  Starting out independently in 
1880, when he severed home ties and came to the new world, he has since been 
dependent upon his own resources and step by step he has worked his way 
upward, using his opportunities wisely and acquiring a handsome competence as 
the reward at his labors and judicious investments. 	

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