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and became a member o; the furniture and undertaking firm of Ackemann Bros. In 1894, in company with his brother, Pred H. Ackemann, he erected the handsome business block since occupied by the department store of which he is part owner and one of the managers. He is also interested as a stockholder in the Elgin Gas & Oil Company, operating oil and gas wells in Ohio. He married, in 1884, Miss Minnie Schlie, of Winzlar, Germany.
FREDERICK G. ADAMSON, manufacturer, Aurora, born in Nottaway, Canada, Sept. 8, 1866, was reared and educated in Toronto. In early manhood he spent six years in the service of the Northern Railway Company, being first employed in the office of the Chief Engineer, and later as private secretary of the General Manager. Still later he was in the general offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Detroit, Mich., where he was employed for about a year and a half. In 1890 he came to Chicago to take a position with the Webster Manufacturing Company. Two years later he transferred his services to the John S. Metcalf Company, engineers and grain elevator builders, becoming Secretary and Treasurer of the corporation, of which he was a Director and stockholder. In 1901 he retired from the company to locate at Aurora, where, with Wiley W. Stephens as partner, he established and built the present Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Company plant for the construction of power-transmitting machinery and elevating and conveying appliances, a rapidly growing industry. Mr. Adamson is the Vice-President and Treasurer of the corporation. In 1892 he married Miss Annie B. Rose, daughter of Duncan D. Rose, of Seaforth, Canada. He is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago.
LEOPOLD ADLER, retired merchant, Elgin. III., was born in Baden, Germany, Oct. 15, 1834, and educated in the schools of his native town, where he was trained to the business of cigar manufacturing. In 1856 he came to the United States, and for two years was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Chicago. In 1858 he removed to Elgin, which has since been his home, and where he was solely engaged in mercantile business until 1891. when he sold out and spent the ensuing two years in Berlin. Germany, where his younger children completed their education. In January. 1894, he resumed business in Elgin in company with his son, as head of the firm of L. Adler & Son, a business which he turned over to his son three years later, since when he has been associated with Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chicago, and the Capital City Woolen Mills, of Des Moines, Iowa. In 1859 Mr. Adler married Miss Rose Sheuerman, also a native of Baden, Germany.
NATHAN J. ALDRICH, lawyer, Aurora, Ill.; born in Kendall County, Ill., Dec. 3, 1851; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in the class of 1875, and in the same year began practicing his profession in Aurora, where he has since been a leading member of the bar; has been identified with various business enterprises, and has taken an active part in politics in the councils of the Republican party; married, in 1879, Miss Mary E. Winchell, of Rantoul, Ill.
PIERRE A. ALLAIRE (deceased), pioneer physician, Aurora, III.; born in New York City in 1815 and died in Aurora in 1863; educated at Columbia College, New York, graduating from the medical department of that institution, and came to Illinois two years later, locating at Aurora shortly afterwards, where he practiced his profession until his death. The Doctor took much interest in the advancement of educational interests, and served as a member of the Aurora School Board; was also a member of the Board of City Aldermen. He was married to Mrs. Catherine (Gates) Fuller, a native of Jefferson County, N. Y.
JOHN ALLASON (deceased), pioneer farmer, Carpentersville, Kane County, Ill.; born at Lake Champlain, N. Y., in 1812, where he grew to manhood; came to Illinois in early manhood, locating at Carpentersville, but later removed to Chicago, residing there for several years, and afterwards returned to Carpentersville, where he owned and managed a fine farm and became closely identified with the affairs of his community. In political views he was a Republican and served as Township Collector for several years, besides holding other town offices. In religious faith he was a Baptist, being a member of the church at Dundee, Ill. His wife, Anna (Shaw) Allason, was born in Dundee, Scotland, and they were married at Dundee, II!., and became the parents of six
