Person:Philip Acker (4)

1910 census: age 28, boarder with 7 others, laborer in a carriage shop; born OH; parents born OH [TH-IL 125]

City directory data for Rock Island (mostly R. L. Polk and Co.)[TH-IL 188]: 1913: laborer for Deere & Co.; lives at 924-7th Ave with Ella. 1915-1917: coach cleaner for the Chicago, RockIsland and Peoria RR, rooms at 924-7th Ave; wife is Ella 1919: inspector for CRI&P 1924: toolmaker for Rock Island Mfg. Co.; now and subsequently living at 1504-37th Street, RI 1928: no occupation given 1930: assembler- no company given 1933: attendant 1934-1942: tool grinder, International Harvester

1930 census: [ED 91, Roll 553; RI: Ancestry.com]: 1504 ? Street, owns home worth $5000; radio; age 48, married at age 30; born OH; parents born Gy; tool grinder in factory [TH-IL 158]. 1940 directory: tool grinder at IHCo.

DOB, DOD from diary of Marie Theus Vollmer [TH-IL 167] and obit [TH-IL 186].

Obituary from Rock Island Argus, July 10, 1947: “PHILIP ACKER, 62, SUCCUMBS Rock Island Resident 40 Years Dies at Home; Funeral Services Saturday Philip Acker, 62, of 1504 Thirty-seventh street, Rock Island, a tool grinder for the International Harvester company and a resident of this city 40 years, died at 11:55 o’clock last night in his home after a long ilness. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the Hodgson funeral home, the Rev. Eldon Haake, assistant pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church, officiating. Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran cemetery. Mr. Acker was born in Bloomville, Ohio, Jan. 21, 1885, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Philip Acker. He married Ella Theus in Rock Island March 20, 1912. Surviving are the widow; a brother, Carl, of Attica, Ohio. and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Zutavern of St. Stephens, Ohio. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 o’clock this evening until 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. The body will be taken to the residence at that time and returned to the funeral home at noon Saturday.”