Charles Frederick Ackerman
Everybody in this city and county too for that matter, knows Charles Frederick Ackerman, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, therefore if the above "pictur" [sic.] does not flatter him, the reader will recognize him by what follows. He will receive a large complimentary vote in this county and also in Cincinnati, being a representative young German. The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells his history in the following interesting style, to which the SHIELD heartily subscribes: Charles F. Ackerman, the nominee for treasurer, looks like a mere boy, but he has been a resident of Ohio for 35 years and all that time he has lived at his birthplace, Mansfield. He is the son of Geo. Peter Ackerman, a respectable shoemaker, who is still living in Mansfield. The elder Ackerman has a large family and Charles, like many another Ohio boy, had to help support it. Eighteen years ago he went into the Mansfield Savings bank as messenger. He has been there ever since and now he is cashier of that institution, which is the richest in that part of Ohio. He has gone through all the positions and attained his present one when Gen. R. Brinkerhoff was made president, about two years ago. When M.D. Harter nominated him he said he would trust him in the treasurer's office without bond and and would not count the cash after he left the office is the money were his own. Congressman Harter ought to know whereof he is speaking for he was president of the bank of which Mr. Ackerman is now cashier. Mr. Ackerman comes from Democratic stock and he has always taken a part in local politics but has never held an office. He is very popular in central Ohio, where he is respected by much older men than himself. He is the son-in-law of E.H. Keiser, one of the managers of the Intermediate penitentiary.
Richland Shield & Banner: 25 July 1891, Vol. LXXIV, No. 10]
