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B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Bentley DeForest Ackley Composer of "ACKLEY" in The Cyber Hymnal Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
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Edna Jaques

1891 - 1978 Author of "Some Blessed Day" Born: Jan­u­a­ry 17/18, 1891, Col­ling­wood, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Died: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1979, Wil­low­dale, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Buried: Trin­i­ty Unit­ed Church cem­e­te­ry, Col­ling­wood, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Daughter of Charles Adolph­us and Ma­ry El­len Don­o­hue Jacques, Ed­na grew up in Brier­crest, near Moose Jaw, Sas­kat­che­wan. She be­gan writ­ing verse as a teen­age­r, her first ef­forts ap­pear­ing in the Moose Jaw Times. After fin­ish­ing her stu­dies in the pub­lic schools, she moved to Cal­ga­ry where she wrote a po­et­ic re­sponse to In Flan­ders Fields, which was read at the ded­i­ca­tion of the Tomb of the Un­known Sol­dier in Wash­ing­ton, DC. This vault­ed her in­to the pub­lic eye, and the ed­it­or of the Cal­gary Her­ald of­fered to pay her way to the un­i­ver­si­ty. But she had the tra­vel bug, and in­stead went to Van­couver, where she worked in a hos­pi­tal, and as a sten­o­graph­er and wait­ress be­fore be­com­ing a jour­nal­ist for the Van­cou­ver Pro­vinc­es. She mar­ried Will­iam Er­nest Ja­mie­son, No­vem­ber 21, 1921, and they they moved to a farm near Prince Al­bert, Sas­kat­che­wan. She and her daughter Joyce later to Victoria, where she worked as a sten­og­raph­er and wrote ar­ti­cles and po­ems for news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. In World War II, Jacques worked in a fac­to­ry for a time, and on the War Time Pric­es and Trade Board. Her lit­er­a­ry cir­cle in­clud­ed Nell­ie Mc­Clung and Mil­dred Val­ley Thorn­ton. Mc­Clung was in­stru­men­tal in the pub­li­ca­tion of her book, My Kitch­en Win­dow. By the time of her death, Jacques’ po­e­try had sold a quar­ter mil­lion co­pies. Her works include: In Flanders Now, 1919 Wide Ho­ri­zons, cir­ca 1932 Drifting Soil, 1934 My Kitch­en Win­dow, 1935 Dreams in Your Heart, 1937 Beside Still Wa­ters, 1939 Britons Awake, 1940 Aunt Hat­tie’s Place, 1941 Roses in De­cem­ber, 1944 Back Door Neigh­bors, 1946 Hills of Home, 1948 Verses for You, cir­ca 1945 Fireside Po­ems, 1950 The Gold­en Road, 1953 Belle Plain Dis­trict His­to­ry, 1966 The Best of Ed­na Jacques, 1966 Uphill All the Way, 1977 Prairie Born, Prair­ie Bred: Poetic Re­flec­tions of a Pioneer, cir­ca 1979 Cyber Hymnal
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