Bentley DeForest Ackley (September 27, 1872, Spring Hill, Pennsylvania – September 3, 1958, Winona Lake, Indiana) was an American musician and gospel composer.
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In 1907, he joined Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver, an evangelist team, as secretary-pianist, and traveled with them for eight years.
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He was also on the staff of the magazines Guns&Ammo and Shooting Times, and was an instructor at the Trinidad State Junior College from 1946 to 1951, where he did much experimentation in the field of firearms.
Among the new prospective buyers to the house at 1 LaVeta Place on the Hudson River was Kreskin (who was interested in it because of the haunted claim).