Payette County ID Archives Biographies.....Ackerman, George 1867 - 1959
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Author: Hiram T. French

History of Idaho
By Hiram T. French, M.S.
The Lewis Publishing Co
Chicago & New York 1914

GEORGE ACKERMAN

George Ackerman, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the new Plymouth 
Mercantile Company, Ltd., which conducts the largest general store at New 
Plymouth, Idaho, is a Swiss-American.

Mr. Ackerman was born in Switzerland, March 27, 1867, son of Jacob and Marie 
(Gall) Ackerman, both natives of Switzerland, where they lived until 1882.  
That year, seeking the advantages offered in America, the Ackerman family set 
sail for this country, and upon their arrival in the United States, 
established their home at Herman, Nebraska.  Here the mother died, in 1885, at 
the age of fifty-six years.  The father survived her until 1901, when his 
death occurred, at the age of seventy-nine years, in Switzerland, where he had 
gone on a visit.  They were the parents of eight children, one of whom died in 
infancy.  One of the sons, A. W. Ackerman, is a farmer at Teko, Washington, 
and three – George, B. F. and J. A. being occupied as a carpenter and 
builder.  George, the sixth in order of birth in the family, was fifteen years 
of age at the time of their removal to this country.  His education, as far as 
schooling goes, was received in his native land, and after they came to 
America, his time, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, was spent on 
the farm with his father, his father owning and operating land in Nebraska.  
From farming, young Ackerman turned his attention to mercantile pursuits.  For 
four years he was employed as clerk by G. A. Pegan, of Herman, Nebraska, at 
the end of which time he purchased the store in which he had been an 
employee.  This he conducted successfully until 1903, when he sold out and 
came to Idaho.  That same year he engaged in the lumber business at New 
Plymouth, as an employee of Wachter & Meyer.  The next year he established the 
business in which he is now engaged.  It was at first known as Ackerman & 
Hannigan.  In September, 1910, Mr. Hannigan withdrew, and on April 7, 1911, an 
incorporation was consummated, under the name of New Plymouth Mercantile 
Company, Ltd., with M. M. Sullivan, president and George Ackerman, secretary, 
treasurer and general manager.  The past year, the annual business of this 
concern was between $30,000 and $35,000.  

Politically, Mr. Ackerman is a Democrat.  He was one of the first town 
councilmen of New Plymouth, and he served as a member of the council from the 
time the town was incorporated until 1909.  Fraternally, he is identified with 
the K. and P. and the A. O. U. W., and he has been a member of the New 
Plymouth Commercial Club ever since its organization.  His religious faith is 
that of the Roman Catholic church.

Of Mr. Ackerman’s domestic life, we record that on February 11, 1902, in 
Washington county. Nebraska, He married Miss Bessie M. Chadwick, daughter of 
T. E. Chadwick, a native of Nebraska.  And to them have been given four 
children – Edytha, Felix G., Laura B., and Mildred.

Referring to his early experience, Mr. Ackerman says he started out in life a 
poor young man.  His success in Idaho naturally gives him a kindly feeling 
toward the people of this state and its institutions, and he is regarded among 
his friends as an Idaho “booster.”  Indeed, he firmly believes in the great 
future of this state.

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