. History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time. the sixyears that he carried on the ranch he was very successful and had every reasonto feel proud of his accomplishments. However, in the meantime he had be-come interested in the business opportunity offered in the lumber business andin 1902 he bought out the business and good-will of Joseph Price, who hadmaintained a lumber yard for some time. As a partner in the lumber businessMr. Ack
. History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time. the sixyears that he carried on the ranch he was very successful and had every reasonto feel proud of his accomplishments. However, in the meantime he had be-come interested in the business opportunity offered in the lumber business andin 1902 he bought out the business and good-will of Joseph Price, who hadmaintained a lumber yard for some time. As a partner in the lumber businessMr. Ackerman was associated with G. R. Harrison, the association continuingfor about four years, or until 1906, when Mr. Ackerman bought out his partnerand since that time has conducted the business alone. At the time Mr. Acker-man purchased the business of his predecessor it was small and inconsequential,but he has put new life into the enterprise by increasing the stock, enlargingthe size of the yard and erecting new sheds, until now it would hardly be takenfor the same place. The Sotoyome lumber yard, as his plant is known, is oneof the best equipped lumber plants in the county, and the thriving business. OLJU*-^ HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY 821 which the proprietor now commands is constantly on the increase, his tradecoming from all parts of the count). While a resident of Iowa, in 1880, Mr. Ackerman formed domestic ties byhis marriage with Miss Amelia R. Miller, a native of the state in which hermarriage occurred. Four children have been born of the marriage of Mr. andMrs. Ackerman, Merle, Charles. Roy and Ruth. Fraternally Mr. Ackerman isidentified with two others, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and theModern Woodmen. JOHN JOSEPH ALVES. An authority on fruit-growing in the Vine Hill district, Sonoma county,is to be found in the person of J. J. Alves, superintendent of the now famousVine Hill View ranch, of which A. B. Hills is the owner, and in addition to car-ing for this pro
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