Ephraim L. Acker

Acker, Ephraim L. Was born in Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1827; educated in common schools, and graduated at Marshall College, Pennsylvania, in 1847; taught school two years, and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1852; was editor and publisher of The Norristown Register; Superintendent of Common Schools for Montgomery County from 1854 to 1860; was appointed Postmaster at Norristown in 1860, and removed after serving about eleven months; was Inspector of Montgomery County prison three years; and was elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Militia Committee.

Lanman, Charles. Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington: James Anglim, Publisher, 1876, p. 1.

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