Milo M. Acker

Milo M. Acker (October 3, 1853 – August 11, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on October 3, 1853, in Hartsville, Steuben County, New York, the son of Hugh J. Acker and Huldah (Call) Acker. He attended the public schools and Alfred University.^[1] He worked as a farmhand and a lumberjack, and later became a farmer. He was Supervisor of the Town of Hartsville in 1879 and 1880. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1883, and practiced law in Hornellsville. He was Police Justice of Hornellsville in 1885^[2] and Recorder of Hornellsville in 1886.^[3]

Acker was a member of the New York State Assembly (Steuben Co., 2nd D.) in 1888, 1889, 1890 and 1891; and was Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary in 1890. On October 9, 1890, he married Mary Wilder Clarke^[4] (1857–1937).^[5] He was Minority Leader of the Assembly in 1891. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894.

He was a member of the New York State Water Supply Commission from 1905^[6] to 1911.^[7] He was a delegate to the 1908 Republican National Convention.

He died on August 11, 1922, in Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York;^[8] and was buried at the Rural Cemetery in Hornell.^[9]

Sources

1. Who's Who in New York edited by William F. Mohr (1914; pg. 7f)
2. The Evening Journal Almanac (1891; pg. 170)
3. A History of Steuben County, New York, and Its People by Irvin W. Near (Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago; Vol. II; pg. 620)
4. "ACKER, Mary Clarke" in Women's Who's Who of America 1914–1915] edited by John William Leonard (republished by Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1976; pg. 35; ISBN 0-8103-4018-6)
5. MRS. MILO M. ACKER in the New York Times on July 20, 1937 (subscription required)
6. TO END WATER POLLUTION in the New York Times on July 4, 1905
7. PLAN TO END BOARDS DISMAYS POLITICIANS in the New York Times on January 9, 1911
8. Obituaries; Milo M. Acker transcribed from The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, at Forgotten Books
9. Cemetery transcriptions from Hornell Rural Cemetery, at Painted Hills