Ernest R. Ackerman
He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions at Chicago in 1908 and in 1916 and a member of the board of trustees of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, 1916-1920.Ackerman was a member of the New Jersey Geological Survey and associate of the American Society of Civil Engineers.He served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Plainfield, New Jersey, on October 18, 1931; he was buried in the family plot in Hillside Cemetery.He was known for his famous collections of British Guiana and Spain, but he was regarded as an expert in postage stamps and postal history of the United States.A part of his valuable United States collection was bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. Ackerman was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 2000.