William Hayes Acklen was one of the six children of Joseph and Adelicia (Hayes) Acklen. Later in life, William adopted the older spelling of his surname – Ackland. William married Laura Crocker (1871-1931) on June 2, 1896, in Cleveland, Ohio, but their marriage ended in divorce within a year. They had no children.
William's wealth generally came from his mother's first marriage, to Isaac Franklin. William earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nashville and a bachelor of law degree from Vanderbilt University. William did not practice law, but did publish a novel and some works of poetry. He also enjoyed tennis, visual arts, and travel.
When he died in 1940, William was interred in the family mausoleum in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, TN. As the result of a bequest in his will that the bulk of his fortune go to a southern university to establish an art museum in his name, and his remains to be buried there, he was reinterred in 1958 in the Ackland Memorial Art Museum located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That bequest helped fund the construction of the existing Ackland Art Museum's facilities.
A more detailed biography of William Ackland and can be found on the Ackland Art Museum's website.
William's wealth generally came from his mother's first marriage, to Isaac Franklin. William earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nashville and a bachelor of law degree from Vanderbilt University. William did not practice law, but did publish a novel and some works of poetry. He also enjoyed tennis, visual arts, and travel.
When he died in 1940, William was interred in the family mausoleum in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, TN. As the result of a bequest in his will that the bulk of his fortune go to a southern university to establish an art museum in his name, and his remains to be buried there, he was reinterred in 1958 in the Ackland Memorial Art Museum located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That bequest helped fund the construction of the existing Ackland Art Museum's facilities.
A more detailed biography of William Ackland and can be found on the Ackland Art Museum's website.
William Hayes Acklen was one of the six children of Joseph and Adelicia (Hayes) Acklen. Later in life, William adopted the older spelling of his surname – Ackland. William married Laura Crocker (1871-1931) on June 2, 1896, in Cleveland, Ohio, but their marriage ended in divorce within a year. They had no children.
William's wealth generally came from his mother's first marriage, to Isaac Franklin. William earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nashville and a bachelor of law degree from Vanderbilt University. William did not practice law, but did publish a novel and some works of poetry. He also enjoyed tennis, visual arts, and travel.
When he died in 1940, William was interred in the family mausoleum in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, TN. As the result of a bequest in his will that the bulk of his fortune go to a southern university to establish an art museum in his name, and his remains to be buried there, he was reinterred in 1958 in the Ackland Memorial Art Museum located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That bequest helped fund the construction of the existing Ackland Art Museum's facilities.
A more detailed biography of William Ackland and can be found on the Ackland Art Museum's website.
William's wealth generally came from his mother's first marriage, to Isaac Franklin. William earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nashville and a bachelor of law degree from Vanderbilt University. William did not practice law, but did publish a novel and some works of poetry. He also enjoyed tennis, visual arts, and travel.
When he died in 1940, William was interred in the family mausoleum in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, TN. As the result of a bequest in his will that the bulk of his fortune go to a southern university to establish an art museum in his name, and his remains to be buried there, he was reinterred in 1958 in the Ackland Memorial Art Museum located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That bequest helped fund the construction of the existing Ackland Art Museum's facilities.
A more detailed biography of William Ackland and can be found on the Ackland Art Museum's website.
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