History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 882 & 885, Union Township
Nicholas H. Ackerman, proprietor of the Ackerman House, Avon,
was born in Bergen Co., N. J., Aug. 11, 1829, and is the son of
Cornelius and Elizabeth (Yeoman) Ackerman; the former is living with
his son at Avon at the age of 90 years. He reads every day without the
aid of glasses, and is very active and healthy. Mr. A. was educated in
the common schools of New Jersey. Oct. 23, ’49, he was united in
marriage with Mary E. Winters, by whom he had 4 boys, 2 of whom,
Charles and Harry, are living. Mrs. A.’s grandmother, Winters, is
living in Newark, N. J., at the age of 100 years.
