Norman Ackley Fitzgerald

Notes:

He was a newspaper pressman.

Norman married Catherine Frazier on 21 May 1892 in Calhoun County, Michigan, and was divorced on 17 Sep 1906 in Calhoun County, Michigan. Catherine (daughter of Duncan Fraser and Catherine Gillespie) was born on 2 Mar 1874 in Creemore, Simcoe, Ontario; died on 3 Sep 1920 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; was buried on 5 Sep 1920 in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Waldo Everett Fitzgerald was born on 29 Sep 1894 in Michigan; died in Nov 1972 in Olympia, Thurston, Washington; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan.

Norman married Minnie O. Hart on 20 Apr 1932 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. Minnie was born on 20 Jan 1873 in Iowa; died on 8 Dec 1958; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1830, New York

Abram married Sarah M. Ackley on 4 Mar 1858 in Convis, Calhoun, Michigan. Sarah (daughter of Anson Ackley and Olive Holliday) was born about 1835 in Lockport, Niagara, New York; died after 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1797, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: 1797, New York
• Alternate birth: Abt 1798, Connecticut

Notes:

"[Charles H. Ackley] was born in Shenango county, New York, August 25, 1836, the son of Anson Ackley and Olive (Holliday) Ackley, both natives of the Empire state. They were among Michigan's early pioneers, coming across country in 1838 and settling in Monroe county, where they resided for a short time before coming on to Calhoun county. Arrived within the boundaries of the county, Anson Ackley located in Convis township in 1839 and on this homestead farm he and his wife lived until their term of life was ended. They were good citizens in the highest sense of the term and stood for all that was best in the many-sided life of the community. Ackley Lake in Convis township was named after Anson Ackley, this body of water joining his farm on the north. Under his roof-tree were reared to maturity seven fine children, three being boys and four girls. Today, the father of the immediate subject, and his sister, Mrs. Sarah M. Fitzgerald of Battle Creek are the only survivors of the number." [History of Calhoun County, Michigan: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal Interests by Washington Gardner. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1913. Volume 2, p. 655.]

According to a 16 Dec 1950 Battle Creek Enquirer obituary for Samuel A. Ackley, a grandson of Anson Ackley, Anson and family came to Michigan in 1838 from Lockport, New York.

From Portrait Biographical Album of Calhoun County (citation details below):

[Anson Ackley] was a farmer and was engaged as a jobber on the Erie Canal when it was in process of construction. He likewise kept a tavern and built and operated a sawmill. He was at one time in good circumstances but was finally swindled out of his money.

In 1837 [he] came to Michigan and made his way from Detroit into the interior of the State with a wagon drawn by oxen. In 1838 he located in Convis Township where he had purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land on section 2. He put up a log house with the help of his eldest daughter, and the family lived in that abode some years. In 1856 he located on the homestead now occupied by [the son of his son George W. Ackley] and erected here suitable buildings. He was successful as a farmer and he branched out into the milling business, putting up a mill in Convis Township. He erected a mill on Beaver Dam Creek and managed it successfully for years. He furnished three hundred thousand feet of plank for the plank road of which he was a shareholder.

At one time Anson Ackley owned some three hundred and fifty acres of improved land and was in comfortable circumstances at the time of his death in December, 1865, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was first a Democrat in politics but voted for Fremont the first candidate of the Republican party, and he was a staunch Republican until he died. He was one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a Class-Leader and active in the Sunday-school. He was highly thought of by all who knew him and had a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He was very social and extremely liberal and open-hearted. He gave generously to all schemes for advancing the welfare of his township materially and otherwise, and the poor and unfortunate found in him a kind and sympathetic friend who relieved their necessities whenever he could.

Anson married Olive Holliday in 1822. Olive (daughter of John Holliday) was born about 1802 in Chenango County, New York; died in 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1803, New York

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"[A]n early settler of Medina, Genesee County, N.Y., where he improved a farm and likewise engaged in business as a contractor. He served in the War of 1812 as a Sergeant and during that contest one of his sons was killed at Ft. Erie." [Portrait Biographical Album of Calhoun County, Michigan, citation details below.]

Samuel married Nancy Landon on 28 Aug 1788. Nancy (daughter of Daniel Landon and Chloe Smith) was born on 5 Feb 1771 in Litchfield County, Connecticut; died on 7 Dec 1859; was buried in Alabama Cemetery, Alabama, Genesee, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 23 Feb 1737

Notes:

He and his wife went to Canada in 1807.

Daniel married Chloe Smith on 9 Nov 1755 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut. Chloe (daughter of Steven Smith and Mary Stoddard) was born on 23 Mar 1735 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut; died in Picton, Prince Edward, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1 Jan 1714, Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York

Notes:

First of the Landon family to settle in Litchfield, Conn., removing from Southold, Long Island in 1740. Freeman in 1741, grand juror 1746, selectman 1753. On 5 Nov 1745 he and twelve others organized the First Episcopal Society of Litchfield.

His tombstone:

Sacred to the Memory | of Capt Daniel Landon of Litchfield who | Died July the 11th 1790 aged 73 Years | who Served as Clerk of the Episcopal | Church in Litchfield 40 Years |

His God he served with pious zeal
The sacred dome was his delight
Far distant from that holy hill
Has took his everlasting flight.

So here I leave this earthly clay
And fly beyond etherial blue
Unchained into eternal clay
To sing y^e praise of God anew.

Daniel married Martha Youngs on 22 May 1736. Martha (daughter of Christopher Youngs and Elizabeth Moore) was born in 1715 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; died on 20 Sep 1800; was buried in West Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Landon Genealogy (citation details below) and Maynard H. Mires (citation details below) both call her the daughter of Rev. John Youngs, Presbyterian minister of Southold, L.I.

Steven married Mary Stoddard on 25 Jan 1733 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]