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327. John Anson
ACKLEY434,441 was born on 27 Jul 1789 in Castleton, Rutland , Vermont.5,201,360,442,443 He was elected as Marshal in
Jun 1815 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga , Ohio.201,444 He belonged to Mason Concord
Lodge # 15445 he was the
secretary of the lodge in 1816 He was living between 1840 and 1860 in Parma,
Cuyahoga , Ohio.360,399,442,443 This is taken from a book published in July 1896
"Memorial To The Pioneer Women Of The Western Reserve"
which contains write-ups about the female pioneers in townships in the Western
Reserve.
Thomas ADAMS and wife settled across the road from where Mrs. Fanny INGERSOLL
now resides. He was a blacksmith. His brother, David ADAMS and wife, Buelah PRINCE,
purchased a part of what afterward became the John A. ACKLEY farm. These brothers
came from South Amherst, Mass. In 1825.
Between 1850 and 1860 he was Farmer at Parma, Cuyahoga , Ohio.360,442 He died
on 28 Dec 1865 in Parma, Cuyahoga , Ohio.443
He appeared in the census 1840, 1850 & 1860 in Ohio. He was a surveyor
of the Ohio Canal.446 He
purchased land400 State
: OH
Document Number : 12491
Acreage : 40.00
Patentee Name : Ackley, John
Land Office : Bucyrus
Section/Township/Range : 31/3 South/13 East
Meridian/Survey Area : First Principal
Date Signed : Mar 15, 1836
State : OH
Document Number : 17016
Acreage : 40.00
Patentee Name : Ackley, John
Land Office : Bucyrus
Section/Township/Range : 24/3 South/12 East
Meridian/Survey Area : First Principal
Date Signed : Aug 10, 1837
John A. Ackley and Lorenzo Carter were half brothers and were largely
responsible for the original layout of the city of Cleveland Ohio.
1815
POPULATION, ABOUT 100
CLEVELAND VILLAGE ORGANIZED
President, Alfred Kelly.
Trustees, David Long, Nathan Perry,
Samuel Williamson.
Recorder, Horace Perry.
Treasurer, Alonzo Carter.
Marshal, John A. Ackley (half-brother
of Lorenzo Carter).
Postmaster, Ashbel Walworth.
John A Ackley, was the first Marshall of Cleveland Village
John was born in Casselton, Vermont and lived in Litchfield, Connecticut. He
moved to Ohio and founded the Connecticut Land Company with Moses Cleveland.
He was the first Marshall of the village of Cleveland in 1815. He was half
brother to Lorenzo Carter, the first permanent white settler in Cleveland.
From a biography of his son, John M. Ackley (author unknown):
John Anson Ackley was born at Castleton, Vermont in 1789 and died in 1866. He
prepared for college in Vermont and took a special course of engineering in what
is now Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He was one of the few pioneers
in Northern Ohio who possessed a technical education. Coming to Ohio he located
in Cleveland, then a hamlet, and when Cleveland was organized as a village he
was made the first marshal. For many years he did work as an engineer on state
and federal projects, including the building of the Ohio Canal and improvements
on the Muskingum River to provide slack water navigation. He was asked by the
United States Government to estimate the cost of building a stone pier on the
east bank of the river, and the itemized statement he submitted in 1831 is now
possessed by his son, John M. Ackley. He superintended the building of this
pier. After his marriage he bought a tract of land in Parma Towhship, the improvements
consisting of a small clearing and a log house. On this land, now known as York
Road, he erected good buildings and though his professional duties kept him away
much of the time his home was there until his death at the age of seventy seven.
He was a member of Cleveland City Lodge No. 15 of Masons, and in 1816 served
as its secretary. John A. Ackley married Miriam Emerson, who was born in the
State of Maine. She died at the age of seventy years. Their children were:
Mary E., John M., Solon N., Minnie E., Miriam, Elisabeth, and Sarah and Julia
Ann. The daughter Miriam married J. P. Collins; Elisabeth became the wife of
Burr Robbins, the circus man, and Sarah L. married Theodore M. Towl; Julia A.
married Capt. Daniel W. Stearns. Solon married Cornelia Victoria James
John Anson ACKLEY and Caroline SMITH were married on 10 Sep 1815 in Cuyahoga
, Ohio.5,447,448 They
were divorced on 11 Mar 1843 in Ohio.449
Caroline SMITH450
(daughter of Roswell SMITH and Mary "Polly" PRATT) was born about 1793 in Hadley,
Hampshire, Massachusetts.451
She died of consumption on 4 Mar 1853 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts.451 twin to Caroline John Anson
ACKLEY and Caroline SMITH had the following children:
John
Anson ACKLEY and Miriam EMERSON were married on 24 Mar 1843 in Cuyahoga , Ohio.5,360,442,443,447,448
LDS has name as Marion and marriage date as 30 Mar 1843 Miriam
EMERSON (daughter of Asa EMERSON and Sally TAYLOR) appeared in the census
1850 & 1860 in Ohio. She was born on 25 Apr 1809 in Lincoln, Penobscot,
Maine.360,442,443,452 She died on 21 Feb 1879.443,452 Her
Obituary appeared in the452
Id#: 0000678Name: Ackley, MiriamDate: Feb. 24, 1879Source: Source unknown;
Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #001.Notes: Ackley- Friday, February 21, at 11
a. m., Miriam E. Ackley, widow of J. A. Mckley, aged 79 years. Funeral Monday
morning, Feb. 24, at 10 o'clock, from her late residence, in Parma, Ohio. Marion
is said to be related to the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson John Anson ACKLEY and
Miriam EMERSON had the following children:
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