Third Generation

16. Henry B ACKLEY was born on 18 Sep 1850 in Kickapoo, Peoria Illinois.^{2,19,20,24,25} 1900 census has birth month as June He was living between 1870 and 1880 in Penn, Stark , Illinois.^20,24 living with parents 1870 On 1 Aug 1870 he was a farm hand at Penn, Stark , Illinois.²⁰ On 4 Jun 1880 he was a farmer at Penn, Stark , Illinois.²⁴ He was living in 1900 in Peoria, Peoria , Illinois.²⁵ He appeared in the census 1860, 1870, 1880 & 1900 in Illinois. Biography of² Henry B. Ackley, son of John and Jane (Nixon) Ackley was born at Kickapoo, Peoria county, September 18, 1850. 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 1838; was married there August 19, 1849, 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 K, 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 anti 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 lie engaged in farming, and continued so engaged until '78, when lie 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, lie has served as township clerk and di rector 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.

Henry B ACKLEY and Charlotte LOPER were married on 1 Jan 1874 in Stark , Illinois.^2,24,27 Charlotte LOPER (daughter of Living and Living) was born about 1856 in Illinois.²⁴ She appeared in the census in 1880 in Illinois. Henry B ACKLEY and Charlotte LOPER had the following children:

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Charles E ACKLEY was born on 8 Jan 1881 in Stark , Illinois.2 He died on 25 Oct 1885 in Stark , Illinois.2

Henry B ACKLEY and Olive O LANKFORD were married on 3 Sep 1900 in Menard , Illinois.²⁷ marriage license # IL 7231