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A. C. ACKARD, engineer, Homestead, was born March 10, 1831, in Westmoreland county, Pa., a son of Peter J. and Margaret (Miller) Ackard, natives, respectively, of Fayette and Westmoreland counties. Mrs. Ackard is still living, at the age of eighty-four years, and is the mother of ten children. A. C. was educated in his native county, and with the entire family came to Allegheny county in 1844. At the age of nineteen he went on the river and worked himself to the position of engineer, then pilot, finally becoming captain. He was nine years on the Monterey, several years on the Vigilant, was interested in the boats as stockholder, and has an excellent record, never having lost a vessel. He retired from the river in 1884, and has had charge of twenty-four boilers in the Beam mill. He married Mary J., daughter of William and Susanna (Slackar) Lynch, old settlers. Mrs. Ackard is the mother of five children: Mrs. Margaret J. Hays, Capt. Thomas J., Capt. Alle O., Mrs. Alice Stewart and Mrs. Elvira V. Cox. Mr. Ackard is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of G. E. and Knights of the Mystic Chain; he is a democrat, has been council man, and has taken an active part in all matters pertaining to the borough.