Tehama County

Biographies

 

W. W. ACKERMAN

W. W. Ackerman, ranking among the leading business men of Tehama county is a leading merchant of the town of Gerber, and a supervisor of Tehama county. Born in the state of Nebraska, January 23, 1885, he is a son of William H. and Amma (Whalen) Ackerman. The father, now deceased, was a farmer, and never came west. His widow yet resides in Nebraska. Seven children were born to them, three of them now in California, namely: Meredith H., of Fullerton; P. D., of Los Angeles; and W. W., of this review.

W. W. Ackerman was educated in the public schools of Nebraska, and there attended Grand Island College. He then went to South Dakota, where he engaged in the stock business, and later came west, settling in Portland, Oregon, where he engaged in the bakery business. From 1907 to 1909 he farmed in Nebraska. In 1910, after his marriage, Mr. Ackerman went to Idaho, where he railroaded for six years with the Oregon Short Line, and in 1912 he came to Red Bluff, California, where he continued in railroad work until 1916. He decided to embark in a business for himself. Accordingly he came to Gerber, a small but prosperous community in the midst of an excellent farming district, and started in the grocery and bakery trade, in which he has continued until the present, with outstanding success. He carries a stock valued at four thousand dollars, and conducts his business in a manner which has brought substantial and well merited results. He was postmaster of Gerber from 1919 to 1920, but in 1921 resigned. Although a resident of Gerber, he is a member of the board of the Red Bluff Union high school, having served six years. He is now a supervisor of Tehama county, to which office he was elected in August, 1928, on the republican ticket, assuming his duties in January, 1929.

Mr. Ackerman was married in 1910 to Clara S. Schram, of Nebraska, a daughter of Charles A. Schram, a railroad engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman have one daughter, Lillian E., who was a student at Sacramento Junior College at Sacramento, California, where she majored in art. She graduated in 1930, at the very early age of seventeen years.

W. W. Ackerman is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, both at Red Bluff. His wife is a member of the Women's Benefit Association, and like her husband, is active in all movements for the benefit of the community.

 

Transcribed by Sande Beach.

 

© 2005 Sande Beach.