When Louis Ernst or Ludwig Ernst Elias Hacker was born on 14 December 1846, in Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, his father, Johann Christian Hacker, was 30 and his mother, Maria Dorothea Christina Peters, was 17. He married Mary Ellen Carter on 5 October 1871, in Washington Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1868 and lived in Lancaster, Lancaster Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Lancaster Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died in 1933, in Fremont, Dodge, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Fremont, Dodge, Nebraska, United States.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Häcker); Dutch: occupational name for a butcher or a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hacken, Dutch hakken ‘to hack, to chop’. The Jewish surname may be from Yiddish heker ‘butcher’, holtsheker ‘woodcutter’ (German Holzhacker), or valdheker ‘lumberjack’, or from German Hacker ‘woodchopper’. Compare Haecker .
English (southwestern): from an agent derivative of Middle English hacken ‘to hack’, hence an occupational name for a woodcutter or, perhaps, a maker of hacks (hakkes), a word used in Middle English to denote a variety of agricultural tools such as mattocks and hoes.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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