BIO:  James W. OCKER, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 431

JAMES W. OCKER, butcher, P.O. Littlestown, was born September 6, 1844, in 
Taneytown District, Carroll Co., Md., son of Joseph Ocker, who was born in 
Germany Township, Adams Co., Penn.  The family is of German extraction.  Joseph 
Ocker, who died in Maryland, April 17, 1885, aged seventy-three years, was a 
stone mason by trade, married Miss Maranda, daughter of Abraham Kuhns, and had 
three children:  James W., Joseph A. and Mrs. Mary A. Krug.  Our subject went to 
school in Maryland and engaged in farming in early life, but has followed 
butchering for a number of years; was also a stock-dealer.  He came to 
Littlestown in the spring of 1881, and here married Miss Martha Fleiger, in 
January, 1882; their children are named James and Edward.  Mr. Ocker is a member 
of the Reformed and his wife of the Lutheran Church.  He is one of the wide-
awake business men of Littlestown.  Politically he has been identified with the 
Democratic party.