Henry B. Ackley

Henry B. Ackley, son of John and Jane (Nixon) Ackley was born at Kickapoo, Peoria county, September 18, '50. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and mother an Ohioan. His paternal grandparents being Uriah and Lydia (Sawers) Ackley, natives of New Jersey, of German ancestry. John Ackley came to Peoria county in '38; was married there August 19, '49, to Miss Jane, daughter of William Nixon and Mary Nixon, both natives of Virginia, and to this marriage three children were born, of whom Henry B. and Edward E., both of this township, are living. Henry B. Ackley received a practical education in the district schools and on his father's farm. On January 1, 1874 he married Miss Charlotte, daughter of John and Elizabeth Loper, of Ohio and Indiana, respectively. To this marriage one son was born, January 8, '81, Charles E., who. died October 25, '85. After his marriage he engaged in farming, and continued so engaged until '78, when he rented his farm and attended the Northern Indiana Normal School, and when, after completing a course of study, he passed one summer in Kansas; then purchased Humphrey Avery's business at Castleton, and has carried on a general trade down to the present time. In politics he is decidedly Republican. He has served as township clerk and director of the Castleton schools. In religious life he is a member of the Methodist Protestant church, and in society affairs, W. C. T. of the Good Templars of Castleton.