Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Acklin, George W. November 17, 1850 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 534
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

GEORGE W ACKLIN, a resident of Luzerne township, was 
born near Heistersburgh, Fayette county, Penna, November 17, 
1850, of mingled German and British ancestry.  

    His great grandfather, Joseph Acklin, of English 
descent, was a Revolutionary soldier and one of the two 
white men who first attempted to make a permanent settlement 
in southwestern Pennsylvania.  He was born at Winchester, 
Virginia, in 1732, and died near Brownsville, Penna, in 
1836.

    His grandfather, George K Acklin, was born in 1803 and 
died in 1887. 
    
    His father, Thomas J Acklin, born near Heistersburgh, 
Penna, in 1827, served in the War of the Rebellion as a 
private in Company H, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was 
killed while a prisoner of war at Savannah, Georgia, 
September 10, 1864.

    On his maternal side, a great grandfather, Peter Snyder, 
was among the first settlers of Steubenville, Ohio, was 
killed at that place by accident in about 1805, leaving a 
large family of children, of whom Sarah Snyder, the 
grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was the eldest, 
who was born in 1791.  This was a woman of rarest virtues, 
first married to Jeptha Baker, afterwards to James Pratt, 
and died in 1874.  Among the children of her latter 
marriages was: Mary J Acklin, born 1831, mother of George W 
Acklin-Margaret J Acklin, now married to J H Ridge, and 
Annie Acklin: George W and Annie are now living with their 
mother at her home near Davidson's Lower Ferry, Penna. 

    The early years of Mr Acklin were spent in the country, 
where he worked as a farm hand, coal miner and country 
school teacher.  In September, 1880, he went to Chicago, 
where he was enrolled as a student of law at Union College, 
and was graduated June 15, 1882.  He remained in Chicago as 
a student and clerk in the offices of Sheldon & Sheldon and 
Daniel H Hale & Co until March, 1883, when he returned to 
his native state and was admitted to membership in the bar 
of Allegheny county, July 5, 1884. Since that time he has 
pursued the practice of his profession at 402 Grant Street, 
Pittsburgh, where he is now enjoying a comfortable practice, 
especially preferring Orphans' and United States Admiralty 
court business.  

    A democrat of the old school, a zealous member of the M 
E church, a steadfast friend, a self-reliant, persevering 
worker, always preferring success to notoriety, Mr Acklin 
stands among his fellows a fair example of the self-made 
man.  

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