William James Acker born 16 Feb 1897 in New York to Henry Edwin Acker (1847-1918) & Rosanna "Rose" Hunnigan (1877-1925).
William was a busy bad boy. He started with going to reform school and graduated to many prisons.
He was convicted in Oregon and placed in the Oregon State prison Inmate #7595 paroled 1917, Was placed in Texas State Prison (Huntsville) as Inmate #70339 23 May 1923 for burglary and theft 4 yrs. He was in Arizona State Prison as Inmate #10595 for Petty Larceny 4-5 yrs 1 Mar 1937, South Dakota State prison as Inmate #2428 discharged 1918.
Then there's these:
Inmate #34026 San Quentin
Rec: 11 Sep 1920
Crime: Grand Larceny
Term: 1-10
Transferred to Folsom
Escaped 23 Sep 1924
Last time in prison as Inmate #11566 San Quentin trans to Folsom
Crime: Burglary 2nd Degree
Term: 1-15
Rec: 24 Sep 1946
Age: 49
No Mugshot only a prison record below
William James Acker died in Folsom prison on 6 Aug 1948
and is buried in the prison cemetery.
I found one newspaper article saying his parole was denied.
He had two wives according to census records but I didn't find any marriage records, he also had several children, All this information was on a Census Records I found no solid proof.
Wife #1
Barbara Unknown
1892–
Oliver Acker
1914–
Shirley Acker
1915–
Lorene Acker
1916–
Harold Acker
1921–
Wife #2
Mary Unkown
Erie Acker
I do not know what he died of, but I hope he has peace now and his demons are at rest.
William was a busy bad boy. He started with going to reform school and graduated to many prisons.
He was 21 years old Inmate # 1329 Montana State Prison
Crime: Grand Larceny
Rec: 25 May 1918
He was convicted in Oregon and placed in the Oregon State prison Inmate #7595 paroled 1917, Was placed in Texas State Prison (Huntsville) as Inmate #70339 23 May 1923 for burglary and theft 4 yrs. He was in Arizona State Prison as Inmate #10595 for Petty Larceny 4-5 yrs 1 Mar 1937, South Dakota State prison as Inmate #2428 discharged 1918.
Then there's these:
Inmate #34026 San Quentin
Rec: 11 Sep 1920
Crime: Grand Larceny
Term: 1-10
Transferred to Folsom
Escaped 23 Sep 1924
Last time in prison as Inmate #11566 San Quentin trans to Folsom
Crime: Burglary 2nd Degree
Term: 1-15
Rec: 24 Sep 1946
Age: 49
No Mugshot only a prison record below
William James Acker died in Folsom prison on 6 Aug 1948
and is buried in the prison cemetery.
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I found one newspaper article saying his parole was denied.
He had two wives according to census records but I didn't find any marriage records, he also had several children, All this information was on a Census Records I found no solid proof.
Wife #1
Barbara Unknown
1892–
Oliver Acker
1914–
Shirley Acker
1915–
Lorene Acker
1916–
Harold Acker
1921–
Wife #2
Mary Unkown
Erie Acker
I do not know what he died of, but I hope he has peace now and his demons are at rest.
Please allow me to set the record straight about my 'bad boy' ancestor, William James Acker, a.k.a. James Warren.
ReplyDeleteFirst, his father Henry Edgar (Edwin) Acker left his first wife in the Catskills for the bright lights of Broadway and the big city. In fact, a relative from Greene County, New York indicated his family lost touch with him. He was an engineer of the train sysetm in NYC with multiple marriages, but ZERO divorces. He abandoned families behind him and even took one lady he married to court for BIGAMY.
Next, Rosanne was wife #4 or #5 and he abandoned her when she got pregnant in 1896. James was born in 1897, but has not been located in the 1900 Federal Census. He appears in 1905 NY Census with his aunt's family - his mother already in California.
Finally, apart from shoe-horned census records on the east coast, William James Acker never appeared to have married. Even the later year arrest in 1946 indicates a marriage relationship that was/is unknown to the family and no primary documented evidence has been discovered. And California is one of the better states for maintaining such records.
His cause of death in 1946 at the Prison Hospital was listed as Hodgkins disease.
I continue to work on the timeline and research of William James Acker and have my personal doubts of arrests/convictions in Texas and Arizona due to timing issue with his activities in California.
Thank you so much for the added information.
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