About 8 years ago I connected with a person from Greene County, New York that was researching Henry Edgar/Edwin Acker. There seems to be a lot of confusion as he used a couple of names. Henry was from the Catskills and was born about 1850. The only consistent thing in all his marriages is that he lists his parents the same. In an early census report from the Catskills, Henry has a brother Edwin listed on the report. The person in Greene County did not know what happened to Edwin because he disappeared early in life.
Henry first married in the Catskills and then ran off to the ‘Big City’ to find work as an engineer. I don’t think that Theresa Gunther was the first wife he had in NYC, but I have not spent the time to research him as an ‘indirect’ line to my family. He enters my tree through the brief marriage to Rose (and the possible birth of a son William – as described in other email). I am not really interested in running down all marriages of Henry Acker. I already have the marriage certificate for Rosanna and would like to know what happened to her between 1897 and 1905 (when William appears in the NYC Census of his aunt).
There is an interesting article in ‘The Sun’ dated Thursday, January 18, 1894 (on page 4, 5th column) that indicates that Henry E Acker was arrested for bigamy. He had Teresa Gunther Acker arrested just three days prior for the same charge. I have not looked for a follow-up article, nor any details of the dissolution of the marriage. We have him marrying Rosanna in 1896 and then I find him living in the same house as Annie Grimm in the 1910 census. The census indicates he has been married for 7 years, although I did not ever find a marriage license. He dies in 1918 while still residing in the house at 1177 Stebbins Ave. He was buried in St. Nicholas/Nicholes Cemetery on Sept 21, 1918.
According to information from the person in Greene County, Anna Grimm Miller is listed as a Widow living with her father Frederick Grimm in the 1900 census with her brother and two daughters. These are the same people in the 1910 Census with Henry E Acker. BTW – according to my notes from 2008, I did search forward and they appeared the 1920 US Census also.
Anyway, this is a nutshell of what I know and have gathered together back in 2008 regarding this marriage. I would like to know more about the birth of William and see if his is connected to the family tree. I would like to know more about what happened to Rosanna. I don’t think there was every legal action to dissolve the marriage. As an Irish Catholic girl, marrying a non-Catholic from the Catskills, her family probably pushed her aside. It does appear that William would have been born a year after they were married so there was not that stigma for getting married. How they met or every got connected is a secret that will probably never be known.
Thanks for making me think on this again. My 81-year old father want to get a family history published soon that will document his great-grandfather coming to America and raising his family in NYC. Also, I think I might have found the baptism/birth of his great-grandfather in County Limerick with the recent release of the records of the Irish Dioceses. This is the first real connection (we had the clue from the headstone at St. Raymond’s) to where in Ireland he grew up.
John
On Saturday 5 28 2016 9:57 AM, mizscarlettny@aol.com wrote:
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> Name: Lena Stribl
> Spouse: Henry R Acker
> Marriage: 12 Nov 1899 – Manhattan
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> Name: Rose Hannigan
> Spouse: Henry E Acker
> Marriage: 9 Feb 1896 – Manhattan
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> Name: Theresa Gunther
> Spouse: Henry E Acker
> Marriage: 24 Sep 1893 – Manhattan
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> Name: Caroline Unger
> Spouse: Henry Acker
> Marriage: 3 Apr 1890 – Manhattan
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> Name: Carrie Murrell
> Spouse: Henry Acker
> Marriage: 12 Nov 1903 – Manhattan
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