Ackroyd attended the common schools in New York Mills, and Whitestown Seminary and Business College.
In 1882, he became supervisor of the town of Whitestown, and a member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co., 2nd D.) in 1884.
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.
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