Alfred Ackley

ACKLEY, Alfred Henry. b. Spring Hill, Pennsylvania, 21 January 1887; d. Whittier, California, 3 July 1960. Ackley received his early musical training from his father, and later studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in New York City to become an accomplished cellist. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary, Westminster, Maryland, in 1914, and served Presbyterian churches in Wilkes-Barre and Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, and Escondido, California. Ackley claimed he wrote the words and/or tunes to some fifteen hundred gospel songs, hymns, children’s songs, secular songs, and glee club songs; of these, ‘I serve a risen Savior’*, perhaps better known from its chorus beginning...