Capt Albert Waldron Ackerman (1825-1901)

Capt Albert Waldron Ackerman

Birth

8 Aug 1825

Brownville, Jefferson County, New York, USA

Death

4 Sep 1901 (aged 76)

Mapleton, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA

Burial

Union Cemetery

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...the call of the frontier came to Albert Ackerman, impelling him to seek a home far distant from the associations of his youth. For some time he remained in Ohio, whence he returned to New York for a brief sojourn, and in 1859 became a pioneer of Wisconsin. During June of 1864, he became a pioneer of Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where he bought a farm in Medo township. Three years later he bought land five miles west of Mapleton in the township of that name. Retiring from agricultural pursuits about 1891, he removed to Mapleton and there his death occurred April 30, 1901. During the long period of his residence in this county it was his privilege to witness the gradual increase in population, the constant improvement of farm lands, the steady building up of the villages, and the increasing prosperity of the people; and to these results his own quiet, industrious and energetic life contributed.

The marriage of Albert Ackerman united him with Annis S Burlingame, of Norway, Herkimer county. New York, and to their union were born five children. The eldest, Frederick E, carries on farm pursuits in Sterling township. Blue Earth county, and the fourth, George G, continues on the old homestead of the family in Mapleton township. The three other members of the family, Willis G, Edith (now Mrs Frank Roberts) and Harold, make their home at Millbank, Grant county, South Dakota.
[source: History of Blue Earth County and biographies of its leading citizens, by Thomas Hughes, pub ~1908]
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Date of death conflict between cemetery record and the above bio written in 1908.

[sigh: At the time of creation, this memorial was the only one in this cemetery for Albert Ackerman; and so it remained until recently, sometime after 18 Jan 2016 another was moved to Union Cemetery]

Bio by: DE Sundeen