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30. Sophronia
Elizabeth ACKLEY was born on 26 Oct 1830 in Trumansburg, Tompkins , New
York.1,24,25,27,94,95 LDS lists birth as 20 Oct 1830, Ulysis, Thompkins Co.,
NY She was living in 1874 in Canandaigua, Ontario , New York.25 She died on 23 Jan 1900 in Canandaigua, Ontario , New
York.1,25 Sophronia Elizabeth ACKLEY and George DeAlton BRIDGMAN
were married on 5 Jul 1848 in Milo, Yates , New York.1,13,25,95 George
DeAlton BRIDGMAN94 (son
of Abner BRIDGMAN and Alidah GROSBECK) was born on 2 Jun 1829 in Gorham, Ontario
, New York.25,95 He died on 16 Aug 1893 in Canandaigua, Ontario , New
York.25,95 He was editor of the Ontario County journal at Ontario
, New York.25,95 owned and edited at least 10 newspapers at different
times and made a considerable
success.......
From: Genealogy of the Bridgman Family: "He had been in the printing business
since fourteen years of age, and proprietor of six different newspapers. In 1853
he bought a printing office and became editor and proprietor of a newspaper in
Newark, NY. He writes (June, 1893) that he was a 'Whig' but now a Republican,
at the birth of which party he was present. Has never had any ambition in political
line, though as an editor has helped others in political preferment. He was editor
and proprietor for 16 years of 'The Ontario County Journal,' a weekly paper,
which he sold in 1891 and retired to his farm and lived upon his savings. His
death was very sudden. He was a Royal Arch Mason."
He was a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the E. and A.M and of
the New York State Press Association in which he was active. About 1878 he
built one of the earlier cottages at Oak Cliff on the west side of
Canandaigua Lake. His hobby was fishing." Sophronia Elizabeth ACKLEY and
George DeAlton BRIDGMAN had the following children:
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