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Descendants of Ludwig Krieger

Generation No. 5

5. AMELIA⁵ ACKERMAN (CHRISTINA⁴ KRIEGER, LUDWIG³, JOHANNES², LUDWIG¹) was born 1866 in Ottawa, Illinois, and died 1948 in Congress Park, Illinois. She married JACOB MEYER. He was born 1865, and died 1939.

Notes for AMELIA ACKERMAN:
Amelia was born in 1866 and at age 14, is listed in the census as "at home" (even though her younger sister, Lizzie, is shown as "at school"). Amelia married Jacob Meyer and they lived at 4305 Deyo in Congress Park, Illinois, where they raised their family. Julius and Emma Ackerman lived on Deyo Avenue for a time, as did the Newmann's and Edgar and Polly Mattes.

"Uncle Jake" was the station master at Congress Part Station on the Burlington railroad line. The station was north about a mile on Deyo Avenue. Their home was next to a vacant corner lot with lots of trees and the chickens housed in the chicken coop in the back yard provided lots of eggs for angel food cakes at birthday time. Julius' family and the Mattes' were at their table often. Amelia was a good cook.

Amelia and Jake had 5 children: Isabella, Elsa, Franklin, Elmer and Helen. Isabella Kathryn died of diphtheria at age 4 and is buried at Bronswood cemetery in Hinsdate, Ill, as is Elsa Meyer, who died with Annie Newmann and her son, Arthur, in the Iroquois Theatre fire in 1903.

The three surviving children often played with their cousins, Harold, Art, John and Grace, as well as the Mattes' children who lived down the street. Often a Sunday afternoon found the Julius Ackerman family walking down Cossitt Avenue from LaGrange to visit the Meyer family and engage in a rousing game of hide and go seek outdoors.

Frank married Lillian (Known as "Lill") and continued to live in the area, as they both worked in Chicago. Elmer remained single and entertained the family with his trumpet. Helen married Charlie Callentine, who had grown up across the street and they continued to live in the area. The Calentines had 4 children: Joh, Linda, Judi and Tom. When the children were in their teens, the family moved to Hawaii for a year and then to Arkansas. Helen died of cancer and Charlie remained in Arkansas. Amelia and Jake are buried in the Bronswood Cemetery in Hinsdale, Ill.

Children of AMELIA ACKERMAN and JACOB MEYER are:

	i.		FRANKLIN⁶ MEYER, m. LILLIAN.
	ii.		ELMER MEYER.

More About ELMER MEYER:
Fact 1: Bachelor
Fact 2: Trumpet player

iii.

HELEN MEYER, d. 12-2-1977; m. CHARLES CALENTINE.

More About CHARLES CALENTINE:
Fact 1: Neighborhood sweetheart of Helen

iv.

ELSA MEYER, b. 1893; d. 1903.

More About ELSA MEYER:
Fact 1: Died in Iroguois Theater fire in Chicago

ISABELLA MEYER, b. 1902; d. 1906.

6. ELIZABETH ( LIZZIE)⁵ ACKERMAN (CHRISTINA⁴ KRIEGER, LUDWIG³, JOHANNES², LUDWIG¹) was born 12-18-1869 in Ottawa, Illinois, and died 11-3-1936 in Ottawa, Illinois. She married THOMAS SCOTT. He was born 9-6-1871, and died 12-12-1937.

Notes for ELIZABETH ( LIZZIE) ACKERMAN:
"Aunt Lizzie" was born in December 1869 and married Thomas Scott. The moved to Erie, North Dakota, where they farmed and raised their 2 children, Glenn and Helene. Julius' family took an overnight train (using free travel passes) to visit them in the 1920's and marveled at Helene's able handling of a team of horses (One of which was named "Babe") when she was a teenager. Lizzie and Tom moved back to Ottawa in the early 1930's.

Glenn married and lived in Greenville, S.C. with one daughter. Helene married Ward Hall late in life and lived on a farm in Serena, Illinois. Helene and Ward raised grains - wheat, corn, etc. After Ward died, Helene moved to a retirement home in Ottawa. She passed away in the 1980's. Aunt Lizzie and Uncle Tom are buried in the mausoleum in the Ottawa Cemetery.

Children of ELIZABETH ACKERMAN and THOMAS SCOTT are:

	i.		GLENN⁶ SCOTT, b. 1899; d. Abt. 1950; m. LILLIAN.
	ii.		HELENE SCOTT, b. 1903; d. Abt. 1960; m. WARD HALL; b. 1894; d. 1977.

7. SOPHIA⁵ ACKERMAN (CHRISTINA⁴ KRIEGER, LUDWIG³, JOHANNES², LUDWIG¹) was born 1871, and died 1938 in Galveston, Texas. She married J. HOWLAND.

Notes for SOPHIA ACKERMAN:
Sophie was born in 1871 and had moved away from home by the time of the 1900 census. She had a fine singing voice and married and lived in Houston where she raised 4 daughters, Maude, Lela, Marian and Alice. Only one daughter remained in the 1980's.

Children of SOPHIA ACKERMAN and J. HOWLAND are:

	i.		MAUDE⁶ ACKERMAN, m. FRANK STROZIER.
	ii.		LELA ACKERMAN.
	iii.		MARIAN ACKERMAN, m. R.O. BIRCHFIELD.
	iv.		ALICE ACKERMAN, m. IAN B. MACMASTERS.

8. JULIUS FELIX⁵ ACKERMAN (CHRISTINA⁴ KRIEGER, LUDWIG³, JOHANNES², LUDWIG¹) was born 2-19-1877 in Ottawa, Illinois, and died 8-29-1958 in LaGrange, Illinois. He married EMMA LOUISE HOPFENSACK 6-7-1905 in New York City, New York ², daughter of HENRY HOPFENSACK and PAULINA SEIB. She was born 5-26-1878 in New York City, NY, and died 10-5-1951 in La Grange, Illinois.

Notes for JULIUS FELIX ACKERMAN:
Julius Felix Copernicus Ackerman was born on February 19, 1877 and attended school through the sixth grade. As a youth, he worked as a drugstore clerk, taking his lunch hour on Sundays to teach Sunday School at the Congregational Church. By the age of 23 (still listed on the 1900 census as living in Ottawa), he was employed as a tariff compiler with the Western Union Trunk-Line committee, having responsibility for determining which freight cars went with which trains.

It was through his sister, Amelia, that he met his future wife Emma and they were married on June 7, 1903. They raised four children: Harold, Arthur, John and Grace. Julius became seriously ill with typhoid fever shortly after Harold's birth. Had he died, Emma had tentatively planned to give her sister-in-law, Amelia, custody of Harold and to return to New York.

Julius treasured his time with his family, especially Sundays. He would get up early during the week for work and returned home on the 6 o'clock train. On Sundays, too he rose early and always wore his Sunday clothes all day, having taken care of household chores during the week.

Sunday afternoons were spent as a family walking to the Meyers, or taking a Sunday drive in the 1922 Buick touring sedan (complete with side curtains and running boards) or playing a reading quietly. Church attendance by the family at the La Grange Presbyterian Church, where he served as an elder and undertook other assignments, was taken for granted. He seemed wise and generous in his handling of his teenage sons - some long discussions about "having the car", OK'd an overnight camping trip to Bemus Woods with the Smith boys and took a memorable, summer long driving trip to the West Coast with his sons in 1928. Having his four children achieve college degrees was quite important to both parents since they had less than a grade school education themselves.

When Julius was in his early 40's, he took a six month leave of absence from this job and that was about the time Aunt Weiler died leaving Emma and her sisters a significant inheritance, enabling Julius to retire. He managed the sum safely through the depression and did the same for Emma's sister, Polly.

In 1914 or 1915, Julius built the home at 15 S. Catherine in La Grange and the family moved there from their house on Deyo in Congress Park. He then built the apartments at 17 S. Catherine in 1928 (just before the stock market crash!) and the family moved there, renting No. 15 to the Aldens, the Badgers, three maiden ladies and Harold and Ada when they were first married. Julius died in August 1958.

More About JULIUS FELIX ACKERMAN:
Burial: Ottawa, Illinois

Notes for EMMA LOUISE HOPFENSACK:
Emma was the youngest of the five orphaned sisters. She met Julius when visiting in Congress Park - perhaps through her sister, Annie Newmann and Amelia Meyer, Julius' sister, both living in this Chicago suburb. Sisters Dora and Annie (Mrs. August Newmann) had both moved to Illinois in the early 1890's.

Emma and Julius wed on June 7, 1905 and had four children: Harold, Arthur, John and Grace. Emma was an able mother, always cheerful and upbeat, and uncompromising in her values. The family was quite friendly with the Jake Meyer family, the Newman children and the other relatives including Agnes Gibbs, who came out for summer vacations. Lizzie, Emma's oldest surviving sister, lived in the upstairs apartment, and Polly lived just a few doors away.

Emma's stamp and coin collections consumed most of her time in her later years. She completed a collection for each of her four children of American coins from 1900 to 1950. Church offerings which Julius was responsible for handling, went to the bank only after Emma examined the change! She was a faithful church member and many told of her being their first visitor after joining the church. Emma died suddenly of a stroke in 1951.

Marriage Notes for JULIUS ACKERMAN and EMMA HOPFENSACK:
The wedding of Julius and Emma took place at the home of the bride, 155 E. 70th Street in Manhattan. Pauline Hopfensack (sister of the bride) and Henry Weiler (foster father of the bride) were witnesses.

Children of JULIUS ACKERMAN and EMMA HOPFENSACK are:

	i.		HAROLD EDGAR⁶ ACKERMAN, b. 9-25-1906, Chicago, Illinois; d. 11-18-1990, Tucson, Arizona; m. ADA STOKES, 7-30-1932; b. 2-1-1912, Lebanon, Ohio; d. 6-2-1985, Tucson, Arizona.
	ii.		ARTHUR JULIUS ACKERMAN, b. 10-30-1908, Congress Park, Illinois; d. 1-7-1989, Crystal Lake, Illinois; m. MARIAN ARDELLE WILCOX, 5-2-1931, Cleveland, Ohio; b. 7-18-1908, Cleveland, Ohio; d. 6-13-1997, Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Notes for ARTHUR JULIUS ACKERMAN:
Arthur Julius Ackerman was born October 30, 1908 in Congress Park, Illinois. He went to Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois, and graduated from the College of Wooster in June, 1930. Arthur was in Boy Scouts and in church groups, took piano lessons, delivered newspapers and picked strawberries as a boy. His family were members of the First Presbyterian Church in La Grange.

While at Wooster College he met Marion Wilcox in 1927. he graduated in June 1930 with a B.S. degree in chemistry. His first job was with the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company in a lab at Bayonne, New York. Marian and Arthur were married on May 2, 1931 at Marian's home in Cleveland. They moved to Glenview,Illinois in 1935 when Arthur took a new job with the Pure Oil Company and then to La Grange a year later.

In 1947, the family moved to Crystal Lake, Illinois where Arthur spent the rest of his working career at the new Pure Oil Research and Development Laboratories in that town. He was a two-term member of the local school board and active in church, Kiwanis and many other community activities.

Notes for MARIAN ARDELLE WILCOX:
Marian Wilcox was born July 18, 1908, in Cleveland, Ohio. When Marian was nine years old (and her sister, Roberta, was six) her father, Clare Wilcox died of pneumonia. Her mother re-married six years later in 1923 to Albert Gates, a widower and father of two children. The combined family then consisted of Marian (15), Herbert (13), Roberta (12) and Allene (9).

Marian earned a D.A. degree from the college of Wooster and found employment as a medical technician. On May 2, 1931, she married Arthur Ackerman, whom she had met at Wooster. They moved to Jersey City, N.J. and then to 77 Romaine Ave., Flushing, Long Island, where they had their first child, Paul Russell, in 1934. They had two girls, Mary Ellen (1938) and Janet Ruth (1944).

In 1947 the family moved to Crystal Lake, Illinois where Marian lived an active life as mother, grandmother and in the community. She passed away in Crystal Lake on June 13, 1997.

	iii.		JOHN HENRY ACKERMAN, b. 3-6-1913, Congress Park, Illinois; d. 4-4-1974, La Grange, Illinois; m. ELIZABETH RINDELL, 10-4-1947, La Grange, Illinois; b. 6-12-1922, Oak Park, Illinois.
	iv.		GRACE ANN ACKERMAN, b. 2-22-1916, LaGrange, Illinois; m. ROBERT SCHWAB WISE, 6-6-1942, La Grange, Illinois; b. 1-6-1915, Valparaiso, Indiana; d. 2-9-1990, La Grange, Illinois.

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