Published in The Pine Plains Register, Friday, April 19, 1901
The Hon. Alfred T. Ackert died at his home in New York last Sunday evening after a long illness. He had been treated at the New York Hospital. He left the hospital on Monday of last week, apparently greatly improved. He suffered a relapse and sank rapidly until the end came.
Mr. Ackert was born in Rhinebeck and was a son of the late Jacob H. Ackert. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in early life. In 1869 he was elected member of the assembly from the second district of Dutchess, being the first and last democrat elected in that district in many years. He opened a law office in New York, and had a large and wealthy clientage. For a number of years he was a district judge in New York, and became famous through a decision he made in favor of a sewing woman against a company. The woman had bought the machine on the installment plan, and had paid all that was due except the last five dollars, when she was taken sick and was unable to make the last payment the day it was due, and the company took it away from her. Some friends employed a lawyer and brought suit before Judge Ackert who decided that the machine belonged to the woman, and ordered the company to return it to her, or pay back all she had paid on it, with interest and costs of the suit. The decision was highly commended by the press and the people of New York, who called him a judge that rich corporations could not control.
He was a member of Kane Lodge, F. & A. M., of New York, and president of the Dutchess County Society in that city. In 1869 he became president of the Rhinebeck Printing and Publishing Co., and held that office until that corporation went out of existence in 1872. The writer of this was editor of the Rhinebeck Tribune, which Mr. Ackert’s company published. He was a good man and true friend. He is survived by one brother, Philip J. Ackert, of Rock City.
The Hon. Alfred T. Ackert died at his home in New York last Sunday evening after a long illness. He had been treated at the New York Hospital. He left the hospital on Monday of last week, apparently greatly improved. He suffered a relapse and sank rapidly until the end came.
Mr. Ackert was born in Rhinebeck and was a son of the late Jacob H. Ackert. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in early life. In 1869 he was elected member of the assembly from the second district of Dutchess, being the first and last democrat elected in that district in many years. He opened a law office in New York, and had a large and wealthy clientage. For a number of years he was a district judge in New York, and became famous through a decision he made in favor of a sewing woman against a company. The woman had bought the machine on the installment plan, and had paid all that was due except the last five dollars, when she was taken sick and was unable to make the last payment the day it was due, and the company took it away from her. Some friends employed a lawyer and brought suit before Judge Ackert who decided that the machine belonged to the woman, and ordered the company to return it to her, or pay back all she had paid on it, with interest and costs of the suit. The decision was highly commended by the press and the people of New York, who called him a judge that rich corporations could not control.
He was a member of Kane Lodge, F. & A. M., of New York, and president of the Dutchess County Society in that city. In 1869 he became president of the Rhinebeck Printing and Publishing Co., and held that office until that corporation went out of existence in 1872. The writer of this was editor of the Rhinebeck Tribune, which Mr. Ackert’s company published. He was a good man and true friend. He is survived by one brother, Philip J. Ackert, of Rock City.
Published in The Pine Plains Register, Friday, April 19, 1901
The Hon. Alfred T. Ackert died at his home in New York last Sunday evening after a long illness. He had been treated at the New York Hospital. He left the hospital on Monday of last week, apparently greatly improved. He suffered a relapse and sank rapidly until the end came.
Mr. Ackert was born in Rhinebeck and was a son of the late Jacob H. Ackert. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in early life. In 1869 he was elected member of the assembly from the second district of Dutchess, being the first and last democrat elected in that district in many years. He opened a law office in New York, and had a large and wealthy clientage. For a number of years he was a district judge in New York, and became famous through a decision he made in favor of a sewing woman against a company. The woman had bought the machine on the installment plan, and had paid all that was due except the last five dollars, when she was taken sick and was unable to make the last payment the day it was due, and the company took it away from her. Some friends employed a lawyer and brought suit before Judge Ackert who decided that the machine belonged to the woman, and ordered the company to return it to her, or pay back all she had paid on it, with interest and costs of the suit. The decision was highly commended by the press and the people of New York, who called him a judge that rich corporations could not control.
He was a member of Kane Lodge, F. & A. M., of New York, and president of the Dutchess County Society in that city. In 1869 he became president of the Rhinebeck Printing and Publishing Co., and held that office until that corporation went out of existence in 1872. The writer of this was editor of the Rhinebeck Tribune, which Mr. Ackert’s company published. He was a good man and true friend. He is survived by one brother, Philip J. Ackert, of Rock City.
The Hon. Alfred T. Ackert died at his home in New York last Sunday evening after a long illness. He had been treated at the New York Hospital. He left the hospital on Monday of last week, apparently greatly improved. He suffered a relapse and sank rapidly until the end came.
Mr. Ackert was born in Rhinebeck and was a son of the late Jacob H. Ackert. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in early life. In 1869 he was elected member of the assembly from the second district of Dutchess, being the first and last democrat elected in that district in many years. He opened a law office in New York, and had a large and wealthy clientage. For a number of years he was a district judge in New York, and became famous through a decision he made in favor of a sewing woman against a company. The woman had bought the machine on the installment plan, and had paid all that was due except the last five dollars, when she was taken sick and was unable to make the last payment the day it was due, and the company took it away from her. Some friends employed a lawyer and brought suit before Judge Ackert who decided that the machine belonged to the woman, and ordered the company to return it to her, or pay back all she had paid on it, with interest and costs of the suit. The decision was highly commended by the press and the people of New York, who called him a judge that rich corporations could not control.
He was a member of Kane Lodge, F. & A. M., of New York, and president of the Dutchess County Society in that city. In 1869 he became president of the Rhinebeck Printing and Publishing Co., and held that office until that corporation went out of existence in 1872. The writer of this was editor of the Rhinebeck Tribune, which Mr. Ackert’s company published. He was a good man and true friend. He is survived by one brother, Philip J. Ackert, of Rock City.
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