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LOUIS B. ACKERMAN.  The gentleman to a review of whose life and characteristics the reader's attention is herewith directed is among the favorably known and representative citizens of Knox county.  He has by his indomitable enterprise and progressive methods contributed in a material way to the advancement of his locality during the course of a long and honorable career and has been fairly successful in his business enterprises, having been a man of energy, sound judgment and honesty of purpose, and is thus well deserving of mention in this volume.      Louis B. Ackerman, well known business man of Fredericktown and a worthy representative of one of our sterling pioneer families, was born on Aug. 17, 1839, in Middlebury township, this county.  He is the son of John and Ida (Cook) Ackerman, the father born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, from which he came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1811, with his parents, John and Amy (Barton) Ackerman, the father having come with his relatives to this county, first in 1810, looked over the country and returned to Bedford county, Pennsylvania, then came back to Knox county with his family in 1811, making the overland trip in wagons.  They settled in the dense woods and there erected a cabin and began clearing the ground.  This country was then the abiding place of Indians and numerous species of wild game.  The elder Ackerman entered one hundred and sixty acres from the government, later acquiring more land, all of which he improved and became one of the well-to-do pioneers and was prominent in the affairs of the community, and here the grandfather, John Ackerman, spent the remainder of his life.  His son, John, father of the subject, spent his entire life on the same farm.  He is remembered as a hard-working, honest, retiring man, who was satisfied with home life.  He was a Democrat and a member of the Baptist church.  He lived an upright life and was highly regarded.  He was born on Nov. 15, 1805, and his death occurred on Sept. 3, 1873.  His wife, Ida Cook, was born on Mar. 8, 1807, and died Dec. 23, 1862, and they are both buried in the Baptist cemetery, near Waterford, Knox county.      The son, Louis B. Ackerman, of this review, spent his childhood and youth on the farm and attended the district schools.  When fifteen years old he went to Chesterville Academy in Morrow county, Ohio, for two years. Later he attended the high school at Fredericktown for two years.  After this he taught in the district and village schools of Knox county for twenty years, with intervals between, in which he worked on the home farm.  He was very successful in his school work and became one of the most popular educators in this section of the country.  In 1878 he located in Fredericktown with the intention of making it his permanent home and here engaged in the general insurance business.  He became a notary public and met with much success in his new field from the first.  This was the first general insurance office established in Fredericktown.  Mr. Ackerman has occupied his present office in the Struble block for the past twenty-seven years, during which time he has built up a large and ever-growing business, also in real estate, deeds and mortgages.  He has also drawn wills and settled estates.  His two sons, William A., now cashier of the New Knox National Bank at Mt. Vernon, and Charles E. cashier of the bank of Daniel Struble & Son at Fredericktown, where for years and are yet associated with their father in this business.      Mr. Ackerman was married on Sept. 20, 1871, to Sarah E. Cook, daughter of Asa C. and Margaret (Forsythe) Cook, of Wayne county, Ohio, and to this union six children were born, those resides two sons mentioned above being: Ida C., who married John W. McKinney, a farmer of Middlebury township; Ernest V. is a practicing physician of Fredericktown; Edith E., married Ralph Heskett, a farmer of Morrow county, Ohio; Louis H. is teller in the New Knox National Bank of Mt. Vernon.      Politically, Mr. Ackerman is a Democrat and has long been more or less active in public matters.  In earlier life he was a frequent delegate to county, district and state conventions.  He has served as mayor of Fredericktown and on the local board of education matters.  He is a member of Thrall Lodge No. 170, Free and Accepted Masons, at Fredericktown, and the chapter and the commandery at Mt. Vernon.  He has served in all the chairs of these orders.  He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having filled all the chairs in these also.  He has always been active and prominent in fraternal circles.  He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Ackerman being an elder in the same, occupying this position for many years and he has long been active in churches and Sunday school work.  He has been superintendent and a teacher for many years in the Sunday school.      The family home is on West Sandusky street, believed by many to be the most desirable residence district of the city.  Mr. Ackerman finds recreation in his garden, among his chickens, cows and horse.  He is an honorable, neighborly and pleasant gentleman whose friends are limited only by the bounds of his acquaintance. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 715 NOTE:  1920 Census lists his address as 216 W. Sandusky Street, Wayne Twp., Fredericktown Village, Knox Co., Ohio on Jan. 8th & 9th, 1920 census page.