Jacob Wacker Sr. was born on March 22, 1871 in Frank, Saratov, Volga Russia. He was the son of Heinrich Wacker and Maria Barbara Hardung. Jacob, along with his younger sister, Maria Barbara, immigrated to America with other family members on the steamship SS Scandia, which left Hamburg on March 22, 1892 on Jacob's 21st birthday. The Scandia arrived in New York Harbor on April 1. The passengers disembarked the next day and were transferred to Ellis Island on April 2. Jacob and his sister traveled west to Nebraska and it was in Hastings, Nebraska, that Jacob found work with the railroad. It was also here that he met his future wife, Anna Marie Schafer. On February 11, 1893, Jacob and Anna Marie were married in Hastings, Nebraska, and settled there for about ten years. In 1904 along with their young family they traveled west and settled on a dry land wheat farm located about 14 miles southwest of Odessa, Washington. Six known children were born to this marriage: Jacob Jr., Henry J., Lydia, Hannah, William A., and Reinhold Wacker.
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Family History:
Ellis Island, Ship's Manifest
Ship: SS Scandia
Departure: 22 Mar Hamburg, Germany
Arrival: 1 Apr 1892, New York Harbor
Line 780: Hein ( Heinrich ) Wacker, age 28, male, married, workman, from Frank, Saratov, Russia
Line 781: Elisabeth, age 26, wife, from Frank, Saratov, Russia
Line 782: Hein, baby, six months, from Frank, Saratov, Russia
*Line 783: Jacob Wacker, age 20 ( actually age 21 ), farmer, from Frank, Saratov, Russia
*Line 784: Marie ( actually Maria Barbara ), age 17, wife, ( actually age 14, sister ), from Frank, Saratov, Russia

I have made some age and relationship corrections, in parenthesis, to ship manifest above. William T Wacker, grandson of Jacob Wacker Sr.

Reinhold Wacker: burial location unknown
Date of Birth: 7 Oct 1913, Odessa, Washington
Date of Death: 12 Nov 1913, Odessa, Washington