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Text Sermons : ~Other Speakers A-F : Short Biographies : Bentley DeForest Ackley

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Born: September 27, 1872, Spring Hill, Penn­syl­van­ia. He was bro­ther to Al­fred Ack­ley.
Died: Septem­ber 3, 1958, Wi­no­na Lake, In­di­a­na.

Buried: Oak­wood Cem­e­te­ry, War­saw, In­di­a­na. Ho­mer Ro­de­hea­ver lies near­by.


Ackley showed mu­sic­al tal­ent ear­ly, learn­ing the me­lo­de­on, pi­ano, cor­o­net, clar­i­net and pic­co­lo as a boy. Af­ter mov­ing to New York City in 1888, he be­gan play­ing the or­gan in sev­er­al church­es. In 1907, he joined the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver evan­gel­ism team as sec­re­tary-pianist, and tra­veled with them for eight years. As a com­pos­er and ed­i­tor with the Ro­de­heav­er Com­pa­ny, he wrote over 3,000 Gos­pel tunes.




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