When you know my blessed Savior

Author: Alfred H. Ackley

Alfred H. Ackley (1887-1960) Born: Jan­u­a­ry 21, 1887, Spring Hill, Penn­syl­van­ia. He was bro­ther to Bent­ley Ack­ley. Died: Ju­ly 3, 1960, Whit­ti­er, Cal­i­for­nia. Buried: Rose Hills Cem­e­te­ry, Whit­ti­er, Cal­i­for­nia. Ackley re­ceived mu­sic­al train­ing from his fa­ther in New York Ci­ty and at the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Mu­sic in Lon­don, and be­came a great cel­lo play­er. Af­ter grad­u­at­ing from West­min­ster The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary in Mar­y­land, he was or­dained a Pres­by­ter­i­an min­is­ter in 1914, and pas­tor­ed in Wilkes-Barre and Elm­hurst, Penn­syl­van­ia, and in Es­con­di­do, Cal­i­for­nia. For a few years he worked with evan­gel­ist Bi… Go to person page >