Alfred Henry Ackley (1887 - 1960)

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Alfred was the son of Stanley Frank Ackley and Ophelia A. Cogswell, husband of Helen Armacost, and brother of Bentley Ackley.

He received musical training from his father in New York City and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and became a great cello player. After graduating from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1914, and pastored in Wilkes-Barre and Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, and in Escondido, California. For a few years he worked w ... (Read all)