Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Aukerman, Henry J. February 8, 1852 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY J. AUKERMAN, 
a descendant of one of the old and substantial families of southwestern
Pennsylvania, and the secretary of the Railroad Men's Christian association
of Altoona, is a son of Joseph and Mary A. (Jeleson) Aukerman, and was born
in Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1852.  His
paternal grandfather, Lewis Aukerman, came from Germany, and settled in Unity
Township, Westmoreland County, where he died in 1833, aged sixty-three
years.  He cleared out a large farm in a section of country that was then
largely covered with heavy forests, and the present generation know but
little of the hardships endured by the early settlers of central and western
Pennsylvania.  He married, reared a family of nine children, three sons and
six daughters.  One of the sons was Joseph Aukerman, the father of Henry J.
Aukerman.  Joseph Aukerman was born and reared on his father's farm, and
after receiving a limited but practical education in the old subscription
schools of this State, commenced life for himself on a small farm, which he
tilled until his death, Mary 22, 1857, at thirty-five years of age.  He
married Mary A. Jeleson, of English-Irish descent, who died in Pittsburg,
this State, February 26, 1879, aged fifty-six years.  Mr. and Mrs. Aukerman
reared a family of six children, two sons and four daughters.  Henry J.
Aukerman grew to manhood on the farm, and was carefully trained to good
business habits.  He attended the common schools of his native township, and
then learned the trade of carpenter, which he continuously and successfully
followed for twelve years in Altoona, where he worked during that time in the
car building shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.  He left the employ
of that company on March 1, 1882, to accept his present position as general
secretary of the Railroad Men's Christian association of Altoona.
On July 16, 1873, he wedded Elizabeth C. Detwiler, a daughter of Joseph
Detwiler, of Altoona.  To their union have been born four children, two sons
and two daughters:  Albert R., William M., Clara U., and Irene M.
Henry J. Aukerman is a republican in politics, and a member of the First
Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which his wife and children are members.  He
is a man of good judgment, who is never carried away by excitement or
hastened to take any step without a careful and dispassionate consideration
of what is proper to do under the circumstances.

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