From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 203-204.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


GREGORY ACKERMAN, M.D.

Gregory Ackerman, M.D., one of the prominent physicians of Wheeling, 
has had an extensive practice in this city during the past decade, 
which has embraced the period of his residence.  He was born in 
Prussia, September 8, 1852, near the city of Fulda, where he received 
his early education, and completed his studies preliminary to his 
professional reading.  Deciding to pursue the practice of medicine, 
he entered upon the study, and continued it mainly in the 
universities of Zurich and of Berne, in Switzerland, at the latter of 
which institutions he was graduated in 1879.  He began his practice 
in Germany, and three months later, was appointed physician for the 
North German Lloyd line of steamers, and was stationed at Bremen.  In 
the fall of 1880, he came to the United States, and made his home at 
Wheeling, where he has since resided.  As a surgeon, he has few 
compeers in this region, and as a general practitioner, has the 
confidence of the community in a remarkable degree.  He is a member 
of the Ohio Medical society.  Dr. Ackerman was married in 1882, to 
Mary Elizabeth Coevilia, daughter of Laurence Sikler, deceased, 
formerly of Wheeling.    

(Linda Fluharty)