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2156. William P ACKLEY was born in Apr 1822 in New York.^{26,374,479,480,551,978} He appeared in the census between 1850 and 1900 in New York. In 1850 he was Saddler at Chester, Orange , New York.³⁷⁴ He was living in 1860 in Chester, Orange , New York.⁴⁷⁹ On 28 Sep 1860 he was Harness Maker at Chester, Orange , New York.⁴⁷⁹ Between 1870 and 1879 he was Harness Maker at Goshen, Orange , New York.^{480,1865,1866} He was living between 1870 and 1879 in Goshen, Orange , New York.^{480,1865,1866} He was living in 1900 in Middletown, Orange , New York.⁵⁵¹

William P ACKLEY and Mary DEMAREST were married.^374,479,1073 Mary DEMAREST (daughter of Living and Living) appeared in the census 1850 & 1860 in New York. She was born on 23 Oct 1827 in New York.^479,1867 She died on 22 Nov 1862.¹⁸⁶⁷ William P ACKLEY and Mary DEMAREST had the following children:

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William P ACKLEY Jr was born in Jan 1851 in New York.^{479,480,551,574,1012} On 17 Jun 1870 he was Brakesman at Goshen, Orange , New York.⁴⁸⁰ He was living between 1870 and 1879 in Goshen, Orange , New York.^480,1865 living with father 1870 In 1878/79 he was baggagemaster, Montgomery branch E. RR at Goshen, Orange , New York.¹⁸⁶⁵ He was living in 1900 in Middlesex, Yates , New York.⁵⁵¹ He was living in 1910 in Cohocton, Steuben, New York.⁵⁷⁴ On 22 Apr 1922 he was a farmer at Cohocton, Steuben, New York.⁵⁷⁴ He was living in 1930 in Dansville, Livingston , New York.¹⁰¹² He appeared in the census 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910 & 1930 in New York.
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Adelaide ACKLEY appeared in the census 1860 & 1870 in New York. She was born about 1853 in New York.^479,480 listed as Almeda in 1860 census
listed as Armeda in 1870 census In 1870 she was Domestic at Goshen, Orange , New York.⁴⁸⁰
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George G ACKLEY was born on 28 Sep 1854 in Sugar Loaf, Orange, New York.^{479,480,551,836,1012} On 17 Jun 1870 he was Apprentice Painter at Goshen, Orange , New York.⁴⁸⁰ In 1878/79 he was cabinetmaker at Goshen, Orange , New York.¹⁸⁶⁵ He was living in 1900 in New York City, New York.⁵⁵¹ He died on 8 Sep 1946 in Goshen, Orange , New York.⁸³⁶ His Obituary appeared in the Middletown Times Herald on 9 Sep 1946 in Middletown, Orange , New York George G Ackley

GOSHEN- George G Ackley, a retired Goshen confectioner, died yesterday at his home, thirty-four Murray avenue, after a long illness. He would have marked his ninety-second birthday September twenty-eighth.
Mr. Ackley was born in Sugar Loaf in 1854, a son of William P. and Mary Demorest Ackley. His wife, the former Sally J Beattie, died February seventh, 1927. With the exception of several years in New York City, he had lived all his life in Goshen.
An active member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Ackley had conducted a confectionery store here for many years.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Bertha Ackley, at home, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 at his home. The Rev. William E Jones will officiate. Burial will be in the family plot, Slate Hill Cemetery, Goshen. He signed a will on 23 Oct 1946 in Goshen, Orange , New York.¹⁸⁶⁸ GOSHEN-The will of George G. Ackley of Goshen, who died September eighth, has been probated by Surrogate Charles E. Taylor. Ackley, who left more than $10,000 in real and more than $5,000 in personal property, named as his executor Charles C. Coleman,special surrogate. To his sister. Bertha Ackley, the testator left a residence on Murray avenue, a store building on West Main street, household goods, furniture, silver, and Jewelry,and one half of the residuary estate. Two nieces. Mary and Lillie Ackley of Jersey City, share the .remaining half of the residuary estate He was buried in Slate Hill Cemetery, Goshen, Orange , New York.⁸³⁶ He appeared in the census 1860, 1870, 1900 & 1930 in New York. He was living 1878/79 & 1930 in Goshen, Orange , New York.^1012,1865 He. Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth (28 Oct. 1842-22 Oct. 1932), orator and lecturer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest child of John Dickinson, a merchant who never recovered from the Panic of 1837, and Mary Edmondson. Devout Quakers, the Dickinsons were active members of the local antislavery society. Dickinson was two when her father died, and her mother kept the family together by teaching school and taking in boarders. Dickinson attended a series of Friends' educational institutions, but her formal training ended by the time she was fifteen.
Determined to help support her family, Dickinson worked as a copyist for publishing houses and law firms, a teacher, a milliner, a government clerk, a writer, and an actress both before and after she had gained and lost fame and fortune as a public lecturer. Although she flirted briefly with Methodism, she finally followed the Quaker tradition that encouraged a public role for women as preachers and provided her with a platform, an audience, and benefactors in the early stages of her career. At the height of her career (1863-1875) Dickinson could command a thousand dollars a lecture; by 1872, when she was known as the "Queen of the Lyceum," she was earning more than $20,000 per year and was more popular on the national lyceum circuit than any other speaker except Henry Ward Beecher
Dickinson's remarkable public career began in 1856 when William Lloyd Garrison published in the Liberator a letter young Dickinson had written protesting the apparent indifference and political apathy of northerners to the tarring and feathering of a Kentucky schoolteacher who had criticized slavery. Four years later Dickinson delivered her first public address, "The Rights and Wrongs of Women," at Clarkson Hall in Philadelphia. Her extemporaneous, sarcastic response to a man's suggestion that women were suited only for the role of homemaker drew a favorable response from the crowd. That day she made the acquaintance of social reformers Ellwood Longshore and Dr. Hannah Longshore, who encouraged Dickinson to speak out on the subjects of woman's rights and antislavery before local audiences. When she spoke before the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society in 1860, she received favorable and widespread reviews by the press. Soon thereafter Lucretia Mott introduced her to an audience of 800 at Concert Hall in Philadelphia, where she spoke for two hours on woman's rights.
Working twelve-hour days at the office of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia for $28 a month, Dickinson lectured as an avocation. Following the Union disaster at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, in late 1861, she delivered a scathing attack on General George McClellan (1826-1885). The northern press vilified General Charles P. Stone for the costly defeat, but Dickinson blamed fellow Philadelphian McClellan and accused him of treason. She was promptly fired for her political sentiments, and almost in desperation turned to lecturing as a source of financial support. Garrison arranged several engagements for her throughout New England, where she shared the stage with such notables as Wendell Phillips and Ralph Waldo Emerson .
Despite Dickinson's popularity, due in part to her youth, demure appearance and sharp wit, and her ability to speak for hours without resorting to notes, she found it difficult to earn a living as a lecturer before church groups and antislavery societies. Crowds were large, but the pay was a modest $20 a lecture. In her spare time, she volunteered at soldiers' hospitals, and on the lecture circuit she wove those experiences into her repertoire.
In New Hampshire in fall 1862 Benjamin Franklin Prescott, an influential man in the Republican party, heard Dickinson speak and was captivated by her youth, energy, and popular appeal. The party's popularity was declining, and the March 1863 gubernatorial race was considered too close to call. In a daring move, Prescott convinced the party to hire Dickinson to stump the state. Partly due to her exhortations the Republicans retained the state house. Fresh from this success she spoke to an enthusiastic New York crowd at Cooper Union Institute in May 1863 and earned $1,000. A triumphant Dickinson returned to Philadelphia where that summer she shared a platform with Frederick Douglass and her close friend William D. Kelley . The threesome delivered stirring speeches, which were reprinted frequently, promoting the enlistment of blacks, a favorite topic of Dickinson's.
The following year Dickinson was invited to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives. Her historic lecture on 16 January 1864 marked the first time a woman spoke before members of Congress. Her performance delighted the radical element of the party as she castigated Democrats, praised blacks' contributions to the war effort, and rebuked Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction plan for its leniency.
When the Civil War ended Dickinson was almost twenty-three, the age at which many women of her generation retreated into domesticity. Although she did not lack for suitors, she never seriously considered marriage. Instead she turned her wartime experiences into a successful career as a public speaker in the national lyceum movement, which reached its zenith in the decade following the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1875 Dickinson followed the lecture circuit from October to May. While a good season might net her over $20,000, the pace--five to six lectures per week in a different city each night--taxed her health. Her stock of lectures included civil rights for the former slaves, women's rights, universal education, attacks on nativism and racism, the evils of prostitution and polygamy, the political corruption of Ulysses S. Grant 's administration, and the life of Joan of Arc.
When Republican party leaders supported Grant's bid for a second term, Dickinson broke with party regulars and endorsed Horace Greeley 's candidacy. In 1861 Dickinson's political sentiments had resulted in the loss of her government job; now her support for Greeley cost her bookings on the national lecture tour. After 1872 her speaking career declined. Having saved no money, she attempted to revive her flagging career during the next few years, but to no avail.
In 1868 Dickinson tried her hand at novel writing. What Answer? was a polemical piece about a handsome, wealthy Union Army officer who weds, despite his family's objections, a beautiful, cultured, educated "quadroon" and perishes with her in the 1863 New York Draft Riot. Harriet Beecher Stowe auded the book for its "powerful appeal to the heart and conscience of the American nation on the sin of caste," but otherwise it was not well received. A Paying Investment (1876) was an appeal for universal education and technical training as a cure for the social ills of crime and poverty. In 1879 she depicted her lyceum experiences in A Ragged Register (of People, Places, and Opinions).
Dickinson also flirted with a career in the theater, writing plays and acting. Her first play, A Crown of Thorns, or Anne Boleyn, opened in 1876 at Boston's Globe Theatre with Dickinson playing the part of the doomed queen. She finished a second historical drama, Aurelian, in 1878 and achieved modest success with An American Girl, which opened in New York in 1880 and starred the popular actress Fanny Davenport At forty Dickinson briefly returned to the stage as Hamlet, but ridicule by the press led her to quit the theater.
Defeated in spirit, and impoverished, Dickinson retired from public life. Moving to West Pittston, Pennsylvania, to live with her ailing mother and her sister, she succumbed to illness and bouts of depression. In 1888 she temporarily came out of retirement when the Republican party hired her to tout Benjamin Harrison's (1833-1901) candidacy. Summoning up her old attack style, she railed against Grover Cleveland and the Democratic party. However, her too frequent references to the Democrats' past misdeeds when the party stood for slavery led partisan papers to question her lucidity.
Thereafter Dickinson's physical and mental health deteriorated. In 1891 her sister had her committed to the State Hospital for the Insane in Danville, Pennsylvania. Dickinson eventually secured her own release and sued the doctors for signing the commitment order. Although she eventually won her suit, the monetary award was negligible. Befriended by Sally and George Ackley, Dickinson lived with them for almost forty years and died in Goshen, New York.
In an era when the prevailing wisdom frowned on female participation in the political process, Anna Dickinson's brief career as a celebrated, paid political speaker stands out. She successfully capitalized on her wartime experiences with a career in the lyceum movement where she gained a national following and outearned all but two men. However, what catapulted Dickinson to fame was not what she said or how she said it but the novelty of her youth and striking appearance. Once those advantages naturally faded, her career was doomed. The public stage was less kind to middle-aged women than to middle-aged men in the political culture of nineteenth-century American life.

Bibliography
Dickinson's papers are located in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. An excellent example of her rhetorical style is in "Addresses of the Honorable W. D. Kelley, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, and Mr. Frederick Douglass, at a Mass Meeting, Held at National Hall, Philadelphia, July 6, 1863, for the Promotion of Colored Enlistments," in the University of Texas Library. See also Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Anna Elizabeth Dickinson," in Eminent Women of the Age, ed. James Parton (1868). More recent sources include James Harvey Young, "Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and the Civil War" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Illinois, 1941); Giraud Chester's biography The Embattled Maiden (1951), which makes excellent, although undocumented, use of primary sources but also takes literary license with invented dialogue; Joseph Duffy, "Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and the Election of 1863," Connecticut History 25 (1984): 22-38; and George Philip Prindle, "An Analysis of the Rhetoric in Selected Representative Speeches of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson" (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ., 1972).

Kathleen C. Berkeley

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Jane ACKLEY appeared in the census 1860 & 1870 in New York. She was born about 1857 in New York.^479,480
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Annie M ACKLEY was born on 14 Jul 1862.¹⁸⁶⁷ She died on 27 Jun 1864.¹⁸⁶⁷ She was buried in Locust Hill Cemetery, Warwick, Orange , New York.¹⁸⁶⁷

William P ACKLEY and Sarah POTTER were married.^480,1869 Sarah POTTER (daughter of John Henry POTTER and Rebecca JENNINGS) was born on 21 Aug 1842 in New York.^480,1869 She appeared in the census in 1870 in New York. She died on 3 Mar 1910.¹⁸⁶⁹ William P ACKLEY and Sarah POTTER had the following children:

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Frederick E ACKLEY was born on 14 Jun 1865 in New York.^{480,551,574,1100,1869} He was living in 1900 in Montgomery, Orange , New York.⁵⁵¹ He was living between 1910 and 1920 in Kingston, Ulster , New York.⁵⁷⁴ He died before 1930.¹⁰¹² He appeared in the census 1870, 1900, 1910 & 1920 in New York. 20 Apr 1910 to 10 Jan 1920 he was Rail Road at Kingston, Ulster , New York.^574,1100
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Frank ACKLEY was born on 2 May 1868 in New York.^480,551,1869 1920 NY census puts age at 50 which would make birth year 1870 He was living in 1900 in Rochester, Monroe , New York.⁵⁵¹ On 22 Jan 1920 he was Machinist, Car Shop at Olean, Cattaraugus , New York.¹¹⁰⁰ He was living in 1920 in Olean, Cattaraugus , New York.¹¹⁰⁰ living with son Walter He died before 1941.¹⁸⁶⁹ He appeared in the census 1870, 1900 & 1920 in New York.
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Mary Lamora ACKLEY was born on 26 Aug 1870.¹⁸⁶⁹ She died on 8 May 1871.¹⁸⁶⁹
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Edith ACKLEY was born on 2 Jun 1871.¹⁸⁶⁹ She died before 1941.¹⁸⁶⁹
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Grace ACKLEY was born on 1 Oct 1875 in New York.^551,1869 She appeared in the census in 1900 in New York. She died on 1 May 1929 in Middletown, Delaware , New York.¹⁸⁶⁹ never married She was buried in Phillipsburg Cemetery, Phillipsburg, Orange, New York.¹⁸⁶⁹
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Merton R ACKLEY was born on 28 Apr 1878.^{551,574,1100,1182} He was living in 1900 in Middlesex, Yates , New York.⁵⁵¹ He registered for the draft in 1917/18 in Steuben, Oneida, New York¹¹⁸² states he works in Elmira, NY On 8 Jan 1920 he was Machinist at Elmira, Chemung , New York.¹¹⁰⁰ He was living in 1920 in Elmira, Chemung , New York.¹¹⁰⁰ He died before 1946.⁴⁵³ He appeared in the census 1900, 1910 & 1920 in New York.
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Bertha ACKLEY appeared in the census 1900 & 1930 in New York. She was born on 22 Sep 1880 in New York.^{551,1012,1869} She was living in 1930 in Middletown, Orange , New York.¹⁰¹² She was living in Sep 1946 in Goshen, Orange , New York.⁴⁵³