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190. Charles
Herbert ACKLEY was born on 22 Jun 1871 in Cayuta, Schuyler , New York.63,65,66,138,145,146,148 In 1893 he was a barber and
hair dresser at Hector, Schuyler , New York.145
He was living in 1893 in Hector, Schuyler , New York.145 On 18 Apr 1910 he was a barber with his own shop at
Horseheads, Chemung , New York.138
He was living between 1920 and 1930 in Elmira, Chemung , New York.65,66 On 9 Apr
1930 he was Barber at Elmira, Chemung , New York.66 He died on 10 Nov 1952 in Elmira, Chemung , New York.152,248
He was buried in Nov 1952 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Horseheads, Chemung , New
York.248 He appeared in
the census 1875, 1900,1910, 1920 & 1930 in New York. He was living
1900, 1910 & 1912 in Horseheads, Chemung , New York.63,138,245 He appeared in the following News Article from the147 Family Barber “Uncle
Charlie” Ackley Trims Hair For Five Beardslee Generations
In a quaint, little shop on E. 14th St where the floor around the antiquated
chair is worn down to the nailheads, Charles H. Ackley, veteran Elmira Heights
barber, trimmed the hair last week for the fifth generation in the same family.
His customer was shy, 15-months-old Jay W. Beardslee II, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard J. Beardslee of Buffalo, whose great-great grandfather, Ichabod Beardslee
of Crum’s Corners, a Civil War soldier, was one of “Uncle Charlie’s”
first customers when he set up his first shop in Valois in 1892.
In 53 years of continuous barbering, Mr. Ackley has shorn the locks and shaved
the three other men in the Beardslee lineage all of whom are related to him by
marriage. Little Jay’s grandfather, Jay W. Beardslee I and Mrs. Ackley,
the former May Beardslee, are brother and sister. Ichabod Beardslee began periodic
journeys from his home near Mecklenberg to have his hair cut by the young “Hector
Corners (Valois) barber” as soon as Mr. Ackley opened his first shop.
He was followed by Philo Beardslee, Ichabods’s son of Smith Valley, Near
Mecklenberg, who, likewise had seen Civil War service. When Mr. Ackley moved
his shop to Horseheads in 1893, Philo’s son, Jay W. Beardslee I, the present
proprietor of Elmira Hatcheries, kept up the chain. Mr. Ackley moved to his present
location at 253 E. 14th St in Elmira Heights in 1909 and found himself cutting
hair for Jay’s son, Howard J. Beardslee.
The fifth generation climbed into his chair Thursday afternoon to let the 74-year-old
“Uncle Charlie” give him one of his first “man haircuts.”
Thirty-six years in one location, Mr. Ackley’s barber shop has become one
of the village’s landmarks. The battered, leather chair he uses today is
the one he bought in 1911. Instead o keeping his shears, clippers and tonics
on a counter he finds it more convenient to use a handmade cabinet which stands
beside the chair.
He repairs clocks and sharpens skates at a workbench in one corner of his workroom.
Mr. and Mrs. Ackley who reside at 147 College Ave. have been married 54 years.
Photo caption: Turned into a sartorial smoothie at Uncle Charlie Ackley’s
hands is the fifth generation Beardslee, 15-months-old Jay W. Ackley II. Great-great
grandfather Ichabod sat for a haircut in this veteran’s first chair back
in “92.
He wrote the following letter22
May 1912
My Dear Mother,
I am so glad your are so much better. I have worried so much about you but it
don’t do any good to worry only we have to do as the rest have done &
suffer. Hazel and I will be over there the 29th if nothing happens, the rest
are going to Burdett later. I hope Helen will get along all right. I see by the
paper they are talking of raising the carriers pay, that will be a good thing.
I have 2 hens setting and some more that is trying to but it is getting quite
late now I think but maybe I will set one or two more. May just called me up
to say Lena has an 8 Lb girl, both doing well. Well I can’t think any more
good bye will soon see you all kiss Ada for me
Charles Herbert ACKLEY and Mae BEARDSLEY were married on 28 Sep 1892.24,63,65,66,138,146
Mae BEARDSLEY was born in Jan 1871 in New York.63,65,66,138
She was buried in Feb 1952 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Horseheads, Chemung , New
York.248 She died on 20
Feb 1952 in Elmira, Chemung , New York.152,248 She appeared in the census
1900,1910, 1920 & 1930 in New York. Charles Herbert ACKLEY and Mae
BEARDSLEY had the following children:
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