Henry M. Ackley

Henry Meyers Ackley was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Ackley was born on January 12, 1827 in what is now known as Ellisburg, New York. He first settled in what would become Oconomowoc, Wisconsin 1857. After leaving to work with Nashotah House in Nashotah, Wisconsin in 1860, he returned to Oconomowoc in 1865.[1] Ackley died on December 15, 1912 in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.[2]

On December 29, 1856, Ackley married Permelia Reynolds. They had two children before her death in 1864. The following year, Ackley married Josephine Breck, a niece of James Lloyd Breck. They had four children.

Political career

Ackley represented the 10th District in the Senate in 1882 and 1883.[3] He was also a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention.

gollark: To ensure our ancestors' traditions are respected, we will randomly dig them up and drag them to voting booths.
gollark: - If a foreign country's relations with our own are poor, it should be removed from all maps and not acknowledged by government policy.
gollark: - I think markets are a reasonably good resource allocation system, and to ensure liquidity would support requiring any property someone owns whatsoever to be put up for auction if someone requests it.
gollark: - I believe our country should construct its own god to reduce reliance on foreign imports, and maintain a stock of reality anchors to remove other gods if necessary.
gollark: - I think that consumption, possession, distribution and production of all drugs should be legal everywhere for everyone at all times.- I support an improved tax system, where everyone in the country is directly billed `country's yearly operating expenses / population` each year, to increase fairness.

References
  1. Portrait and Biographical Record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Excelsior Publishing Co. 1894. pp. 876–877. Retrieved 2015-09-24. Henry M. Ackley+Wisconsin.
  2. 'Deaths Henry M. Ackley,' Waukesha Freeman, December 26, 1921, pg. 4
  3. J. E. Heg, ed. (1882). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Litho. and Engr. Co. p. 531. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
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