Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Aukerman, Joseph January 24, 1838

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  JOSEPH AUKERMAN, a descendant of one of the old and substantial families of
Unity township, is a son of Henry and Catharine (Smith) Aukerman and was born in
Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., January 24, 1838. At some time in the
latter part of the eighteenth century three brothers by the name of Aukerman
migrated from Lancaster county to what is now Unity township, where each of them
located and cleared out a large farm for himself. One of these brothers was
Philip Aukerman, the grandfather of Joseph Aukerman. As one of the early
settlers Philip Aukerman was exposed to many of the trials and privations of
frontier life. He was a farmer and lived to an advanced age, while his wife, who
survived him, lacked but eight years of being a centenarian. She retained her
senses unimpaired to the last and but a few months previous to her death related
to her grandson, the subject of this sketch, how she had witnessed the killing
of wolves, wild turkeys and deer on her husband’s farm, and how upon one
occasion she had caught up an axe and killed a deer which had got fast in a
fence through which it was trying to force its way. Henry Aukerman (father) was
born in 1801 and lived in Unity township until April 5, 1885. He was an
industrious and prosperous farmer, a member and deacon of the Evangelical
Lutheran church and an earnest and active democrat. He married Catharine Smith,
by whom he had nine children, four sons and five daughters.

     Joseph Aukerman was reared on his father’s farm, received his education in
the common schools of his native township and has always been engaged in
farming. He owns a farm of fifty-four acres of land adjoining the town of
Lycippus. He is a democrat in politics and a member and deacon of St. Paul’s
Evangelical Lutheran church.

  October 15, 1861, he united in marriage with Sarah E. Launtz, a daughter of
Andrew Launtz, of Unity township. They are the parents of nine children, six
sons and three daughters: Harry, Della, Edward, David, Emma, Nathaniel, John,
Christina and Trauger. Harry Aukerman,   the eldest  son, married Elizabeth
Critzer and resides at Lycippus.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890

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