Milo M. Acker

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.[https://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinnewyork00newy#page/7/mode/1up Who's Who in New York] edited by William F. Mohr (1914; pg. 7f) 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[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/george-sand/the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1891-nsl/page-41-the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1891-nsl.shtml The Evening Journal Almanac] (1891; pg. 170) and Recorder of Hornellsville in 1886.[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092224280#page/620/mode/1up A History of Steuben County, New York, and Its People] by Irvin W. Near (Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago; Vol. II; pg. 620)

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[https://archive.org/stream/womanswhoswhoofa00leon#page/35/mode/1up "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}}) (1857–1937).[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F04E1DD163DE23ABC4851DFB166838C629EDE MRS. MILO M. ACKER] in the New York Times on July 20, 1937 (subscription required) 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[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/07/04/101416077.pdf TO END WATER POLLUTION] in the New York Times on July 4, 1905 to 1911.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/01/09/106724530.pdf PLAN TO END BOARDS DISMAYS POLITICIANS] in the New York Times on January 9, 1911 He was a delegate to the 1908 Republican National Convention.

He died on August 11, 1922, in Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York{{Cite journal |last=Ingalls |first=George A. |date=1922 |title=Obituaries |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43564590 |journal=The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=238–266 |issn=0146-3519}} and was buried at the Rural Cemetery in Hornell.[http://www.paintedhills.org/STEUBEN/HornellRural/HornellRuralCemAD.html Cemetery transcriptions] from Hornell Rural Cemetery, at Painted Hills

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