Brief Life History of Newton Alonzo
When Newton Alonzo Ackerman was born on 16 January 1879, in Allen, Ohio, United States, his father, John Akerman, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Ann Fisher, was 38. He married Fannie Loretta Holman on 27 August 1897, in Allen, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Utah, United States in 1935 and Ogden City Legislative District 1, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. In 1920, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as electric railroad-workman in Utah, United States. He died on 31 May 1946, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- *N Ackerman, "United States Census, 1900"
- Newton Alonzo Akerman, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Newton A. Ackerman, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Dutch: occupational name from akkerman ‘farmer, plowman’ (from akker ‘field’ + man ‘man’). Compare Akkerman , Aukerman , and Ockerman .
English: from Middle English acreman ‘cultivator of the soil, plowman’ (Old English æcerman, from æcer ‘field, acre’ + man ‘man’). Typically, an acreman was a bond tenant of a manor holding half a virgate of arable land, for which he paid by serving as a plowman. The term was also used generically to denote a plowman or husbandman.
Americanized form of German Ackermann 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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