Joseph Ackroyd (November 23, 1847 in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York – March 15, 1915 in Utica, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.
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Life
He attended the common schools in New York Mills, and Whitestown Seminary and Business College. Then, he became a grocer. He married Adelaide Hoag (1848–1936), and they had two children.
Ackroyd was Supervisor of the Town of Whitestown in 1882; and a member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co., 2nd D.) in 1884. He was a member of the New York State Senate (36th D.) in 1907 and 1908.
He died suddenly on March 15, 1915, at his home in Utica, "while reading a newspaper"; and was buried at the Glenside Cemetery in New York Mills.
Sources
- Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 317 and 366)
- Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1884)
- Ex-State Senator Joseph Ackroyd in NYT on March 16, 1915