Some biographical information on Catharine Westfall and her husband, Calvin Ackley, of Claverack, NY:
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ACKLEY, Calvin, was born at Kinderhook, November 26, 1833, a son of Amos Ackley, born in Madison county, N. Y, June 7, 1799, died March 7, 1857, and Catharine Westfall, his wife, born in Claverack, May 3, 1795, died February 25, 1875. Calvin Ackley attended Kinderhook Academy, Nash's School at Pittsfield, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, from which he was graduated as a civil engineer in 1854. He served as deputy sheriff from 1856 to 1862; deputy collector of internal revenue from 1866 to 1883; supervisor of the town of Kinderhook in 1875; cashier of the Nation Bank of Kinderhook from 1885 until its final closing up in 1897, and trustee of the village and school district of Kinderhook.
Posted 07/07/2015 7:43 pm
