Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Acker, Henry D. September 7, 1860 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY D. ACKER,
an intelligent citizen and prosperous farmer of Huston township, is a son of
Henry and Margaret (Dilling) Acker, and was born in Huston township, Blair
county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1860. The Ackers are of German descent,
and Henry Acker, sr., the paternal grandfather of Henry D. Acker, was born
and reared in Huston township. He was one of the early settlers in the Clover
Creek section. He was a democrat, a member of the German Reformed church, and
reared a family of eleven children. His son, Henry Acker (father), was born
October 19, 1807, and died January 9, 1874, when in the sixty-seventh year of
his age. He was a democrat in politics, tilled a farm adjoining the homestead,
and married Margaret Dilling, a daughter of Casper Dilling (maternal
grandfather), who was born in Germany, and settled in Huston township, where
he followed farming until his death. He was a democrat, a member of the
German Baptist church, and married and reared a family of thirteen children,
of whom nine are still living. Mrs. Margaret (Dilling) Acker was born in
1821, and resides upon the farm. To Henry and Margaret Acker were born eight
children, four sons and four daughters: Susan, wife of Martin Hoover, a
merchant of Fredericksburg; Elizabeth; Sarah, who married Daniel Greaser, a
farmer; Levi; Henry D., Jane, wife of John H. Brumbaugh, who is engaged in
farming; William D., who died in 1881; and one now dead.
   Henry D. Acker passed his boyhood days on his father's farm, received his
education in the common schools of his native township, and engaged in
farming, which he has followed successfully ever since. In 1884 he purchased
his present farm of sixty-two acres, which lies one-half mile from Drab
post-office. His farm is productive, and he keeps it in a good state of
cultivation.
   On July 24, 1884, Mr. Acker married Sarah, daughter of Christian and
Catherine Weidner, of Huston township. To Mr. and Mrs. Weidner have been born
eight children: Christina (deceased); Reuben, Leonard, Dewalt, Caroline,
Sarah, Christian, and Louise.
   In politics Mr. Acker is a democrat, and has served as tax collector. He
has always taken an active part in the affairs of the German Reformed church,
of which he has been a member and deacon for several years. He has been
successful in his business affairs, and commands the respect of all who know him.

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