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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS

A Part of Genealogy Express

 

Welcome to
Summit County, Ohio

History & Genealogy


Source:
AKRON
and
SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO
1825 - 1928
Volumes II & III
Illustrated

Publ. Chicago and Akron
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1928


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  FORWARD  
CHAPTER I. - Akron and Summit County - PARTIALLY finished 7/21/2019 15

 

   
CHAPTER II. - Planning and Development 64
     
CHAPTER III. - Akron's Neighbors - Summit Cities and Villages 84
     
CHAPTER IV. - Women and Their Organizations 162
     
CHAPTER V. - The Romance of Industry 271
     
CHAPTER VI. - Banks and Financial Organizations 327
     
CHAPTER VII. - The Growth of Commercial Organizations 351
     
CHAPTER VIII. - Publications and Publishers 365
     
CHAPTER IX. - The Progress of Education 390
     
CHAPTER X. - Education for Youth of County 435
     
CHAPTER XI. - Catholic Schools and Other Organizations 447
     
CHAPTER XII. - The Bench and Bar 455
     
CHAPTER XIII. - The Medical Profession of Summit County 491
     
CHAPTER XIV. - Church Growth is Rapid 507
     
CHAPTER XV. - Fraternal, Civic and Business Service Organizations 516
     
CHAPTER XVI. - Progressive Jewish Organizations 534
     
CHAPTER XVII. - Military Affairs 541
     
CHAPTER XVIII - Political Campaigns 582
     
CHAPTER XIX. - City Government and Public Service 605
     
CHAPTER XX. - Merchants Develop Fine Stores 631
     
CHAPTER XXI. - Social Service 645
     
CHAPTER XXII. - Art Music, Literature and Amusements 656
     
CHAPTER XXIII. - Transcription and Communication and Public Utilities 682
     
CHAPTER XXIV - Labor Organizations 696
     
CHAPTER XXV. - Agriculture 701
     
  ILLUSTRATIONS:  
 

-- Map of Summit County townships - 14
-- Summit County courthouse and jail - 19
-- Main Street in the '60s, Akron - lumber yard on site of Howe Hotel - 25
-- Municipal building, Akron - 31
-- Central Police Station, Akron - 31
-- Main Street at Exchange, looking north - 37
-- Mill Street at Howard, looking east - 37
-- East Market Street and Goodyear Avenue - 37
-- High Street at Mill, looking north - 37
-- Akron buildings:  United building, Ohio building, People's Bank building, A. C. & Y. railway offices, Terminal building - N. O. P. & L. Co., Akron Savings & Loan building. - 43
-- Main Street Viaduct connecting business district of Akron with North Hill - 49
-- High Level Bridge on State road - over Cuyahoga Valley - 49
-- Seiberling field - 55
-- General Athletic Field - 55
-- Akron-Cleveland Speedway - 55
-- Northampton race track - 55
-- Summit Beach tiled swimming pool - 55
-- Main Street, Akron, looking north from Second National building - 61
-- The Armory, South High Street, Akron - 63
-- Plat of town of Middlebury - 65
-- Map of town plat of Akron in Portage County - 69
-- Simon Perkins Memorial erected by the city of Akron in Grace Park - 75
-- The Barber Home, formerly residence of the Match King, O. C. Barber - 85
-- Entrance to farm stables on Barber Estate, Barberton - 85
-- Brookside Country Club, Barberton - 91
-- Citizens Hospital, Barberton - 91
-- Front Street, main business thoroughfare of Cuyahoga Falls - 95
-- St. John's Episcopal Church, Cuyahoga Falls - 107
-- Methodist Episcopal Church, Cuyahoga Falls - 107
-- The First Congregational Church, Tallmadge - 123
-- Western Reserve Academy, Hudson - 147
-- Home of F. C. Millhoff - 165
-- Home of Dr. R. H. McKay - 165
-- Home of H. S. Firestone - 165
-- Home of E. E. Workman - 165
-- Home of P. W. Litchfield - 165
-- "Greater Akron" (Aerial Surveys) - 177
-- Typical Akron homes - Sunset View, Firestone Park, Goodyear Heights, Twin Oaks Apartments - 189
-- First building of the B. F. Goodrich Company, erected in 1869 - 279
-- Airplane view of the B. F. Goodrich Company, South Main Street, airplane view of the B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron - 279
-- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant, South Main Street, Akron - 285
-- The General Tire and Rubber Company, Karon - 289
-- The Miller Rubber Company, Akron - 289
-- The Mohawk Rubber Company, Akron - 289
-- India Tire & Rubber Company plant, Mogadore - 298
-- Seiberling Rubber Company plant, Barberton - 295
-- Quaker Oaks Company - 305
-- American Vitrified Products Co. - 305
-- The Biggs Boiler Works Co. - 305
-- The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. - 305
-- National Sulphur Co. - 305
-- National City Bank - First Trust & Savings Bank - Central Savings & Trust Co. - Ohio State Bank & Trust Co. - 329
-- Akron Beacon Journal - 383
-- The Times-Press, Akron
-- Firestone Park School, Rankin School, Perkins School, Crosby School, King School, Akron - 397
-- The Seiberling School, South Portage Path, Akron - 403
-- East High School, West High School, St. Vincent High School, Garfield High School, South High School - Akron - 411
-- Municipality University of Akron:  Knight Laboratory, Buchtel Hall, Olin Hall and Engineering buildings, Kolbe Hall, Bierce Library - 423
-- Crouse Gymnasium - 427
-- Curtis Cottage, home of Curtis School of Home Economics - 427
-- Buchtel Field Stadium - 427
-- Hospitals - City, People's, Children's, St. Thomas; Springfield Sanitarium, Summit County Infirmary - 493
-- Churches of Akron - First Methodist, Temple Israel, St. Paul's Episcopal, First United Brethren, St. Bernard's, First Church of Christ Scientist - 509
-- First Congregational Church, East Market Street, Akron - 513
-- St. Vincent's Catholic Church, Parish house and high school, Akron - 513
-- Masonic Temple and Elk's Club, Akron - 517
-- Pythian Temple, Odd Fellow's Temple, Knights of Columbus, Eagles' Temple - 525
-- Akron Clubs"  Akron City, Women's City, Fairlawn Country, University Portage Country - 529
-- The Rosemont Country Club - The Silver Lake Country Club - 531
-- Old home of John Brown of Civil war fame; John Brown Monument; Perkins Park; Portage Trail Marker; Old Maid's Kitchen at the Gorge; World war Memorial, Rose Hill - 545
-- State Armory of Ohio National Guard - High Street and East Bowery - 551
-- Fire Station No. 1, South Broadway, Akron - 607
-- Cuyahoga River - Gorge Plant - N. O. P. & L. Co. - 625
-- Lake Rockwell - Municipal water works - 625
-- The M. O'Neil Company's new home, completed in 1928 - Akron's Largets Department Store - 633
-- Main Street near Market during a civic celebration - 641
-- Camp  Mudjekeewis, the Y. M. C. A. boys' summer playground on the East Reservoir, south of Akron - 649
-- Summit County Home, Stow Road, Tallmadge - 649
-- Parks - Perkins, Christy and Glendale parks - Views of - 653
-- Akron Public Library; WADC, Akron's Broadcasting Station; Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. - 669
-- Hotels of Akron:  The Akron, Portage, Howe, Bond, Buchtel and Marne - 673
-- Summit Beach Park and Summit Lake, Akron - 677
-- Colonial Theatre, Keith-Albee Palace Theatre, Grand Theatre and Goodyear Theatre - 679
-- Home of Lighter-than-Air Craft Industry in the U. S. - 693
-- Inside the hangars; Pony Blimp - 693
-- Silver Lake and Springfield Lake - 703
-- East Reservoir West Reservoir - Turkeyfoot Lake - Long Lake Duck Hunting - 707
 

 
  PORTRAITS  
  Vol. Page
Adams, Charles H. 3 551
Adams, Frank 2 539
Adamson, Alexander 2 43
Ahern, William Joseph, Judge. 3 617
Akers, Charles Edward 2 179
Alderfer, John Melvin 2 555
Arnold, Warren C. Family 3 783
Austin, Stanley H. 2 107
Auten, George W. 2 563
Ayers, Allan Farrell 2 19
Barber, Ohio Columbus 3 693
Baker, Delphos Ward 3 647
Barrow, J. Ralph 3 377
Berthold, Milton 2 259
Barder, Byron R. 3 97
Barr, J. Robert 3 575
Beck, Richard 3 702
Bessler, Frank E. 2 643
Betz, John Oliver 2 507
Betzler, Joseph Frederick 2 459
Bishop, Edward Hopkins 3 265
Bisson, Frank Peter 3 285
Bloch, Ray Emanuel 3 111
Blower, James Girard, M. D. 3 733
Boesche, Harry A. 3 491
Boesche, William August 3 243
Botzum, Lewis E. 2 547
Bowman, C. J. 3 659
Breen, John J. 2 699
Brittain, John A. 3 145
Brooke, Frank T. 3 727
Broxon, J. Edgar 3 321
Bruner, Clarence Irving 3 13
Bunnell, Edward Santom 2 749
Cahill, Harry Patrick 2 362
Carmichael, Thomas B. 2 662
Carter, Lloyd Denver 3 60
Case, Carl Judd, M. D. 2 706
Chalfant, Joseph G. 2 435
Charvoz, Louis 3 131
Clark, Elmer 3 527
Clinedinst, Ernest H. 2 266
Close, James Elwood 3 635
Cook, George Louis 3 195
Corey, James August 3 327
Cox, J. Earl, Hon 3 475
Cramer, Joseph Anthony 3 201
Dague, James Wilson 2 251
Daniels, Derwin Dwoid, M. D. 2 609
Daniels, Lew J. 3 187
Davis, John R. 3 293
Davis, Poncet 3 237
Davidson, Harry S., M. D. 3 483
Derr, John Luther 3 172
Dettling, John A., Jr. 3 369
Doran, John Michael 3 533
Doyle, Arthur William 3 544
Duncan, Archibald Adam 3 720
Dutt, Reno Franklin 2 355
Elliott, Owen F. 2 427
Ely, Albert L. 2 659
Emmons, Van Everett David 3 679
Etling, Birtus O. 3 69
Evans, William Henry 2 831
Findley, Earl Roemer 2 147
Firestone, Harvey S. 3 5
Fish, Charles 3 605
Fleiter, Andrew J. 3 715
Frank, William Jacob 2 243
Franz, Criss W. 3 739
Frederick, Lewis Frank 3 599
Fry, J.  Cleve 2 629
Fuchs, Fred W. 2 418
Galt, Hugh Allen 3 443
Ginther, William P., F. A. I. A. 2 683
Gintling, William H. 3 503
Good, J. Edward 2 59
Graner, A. Louis 2 499
Green, Henry Emil 2 323
Greenfield, Stephen, M. D. 3 465
Groom, Horace Ensign 2 679
Haas, Charles 3 455
Hamill, Chalmers Martin 3 515
Hansen, S. Chris 3 569
Harper, John Franklin 2 649
Haupe, Howard W. 2 807
Hausch, John 2 139
Hawkins, Eugene Adelbert 2 451
Hawthorne, David E., M. D. 3 539
Henry, Albert Reed 2 91
Hepner, Daniel H. 3 425
Herberich, Charles 3 19
Holliday, Aubrey Watters, Mrs. 2 579
Holton, Francis Henry 2 491
Hower, Milton Otis 3 413
Huber, George J. 2 379
Huber, James Burtram 3 779
Huber, Philip C. 2 299
Isham, Donovan D. 3 461
Jackson, George J. 3 307
Jelm, Charles Emmett, M. D. 3 41
Jenkins, Faye Edward 3 117
Johnston, William Alexander 3 27
Jordan, Anthony 2 467
Keeler, Stephen E., Jr., Rev. 3 641
Kerch, John 2 83
Kinson, Henry 3 751
Killian, Fred Leo 3 229
Kirn, Walter Franklin 2 613
Kirk, Willliam Alexander 2 745
Kittinger, Arthur I. 3 251
Klein, Henry Adam 3 363
Knight, Maurice Acomb 3 419
Kratz, George D. 3 209
Kroeger, William H. 3 55
Kucko, Andrew Joseph 2 733
  Vol. Page
Kurtz, Edwin 2 761
Ley, Charles Anthony 2 163
Loeb, Louis 3 771
Longenecker, Ethan S. 2 282
Luce, Rey Vincent, A. B., M. D., F. A. C. S. 3 521
McCourt, Patrick T. 2 99
McIntosh, William W. 2 711
McShaffrey, Thomas Edward 3 685
Magennis, George W. 3 563
Marhofer, John W. 3 271
Markwith, Roll H., M.D. 3 257
Mathie, Earl G. 3 581
May, Rudolph A. 3 611
Meade, Roy Bernard 2 719
Miles, John H. 2 709
Miller, George Andrew, M.D. 2 443
Miller, Stephen Samuel 3 102
Mills, Charles E. 3 699
Miracle, Clifford Sherman 3 159
Moran, Harry P. 3 767
Morse, Nathan 2 171
Myers, Hindley R. 3 313
Myers, Isaac S., Hon. 3 89
Myers, Kenneth M. 3 299
Naum, Chris V. 3 757
Neal, Ellis Walton 2 211
Neale, Charles A. 3 340
Noah, Andrew Hale 2 11
Noah, Robert Harry 3 744
Ormsby, Fred Russell 2 155
Orton, Harve Louis 2 515
Palmer, W. Edwin 3 33
Parlett, Charles Isaiah 2 603
Peck, Melville Case 2 587
Pfeifer, Bernard 2 203
Pfeiffer, Jacob 2 51
Pflueger, Ernest Andrew 3 83
Pierce, Chester Arthur 2 475
Pockrandt, Carl Helmuth 2 633
Porter, George D. 3 389
Rausch, Clarence George 2 691
Ringler, Harold Jay 3 334
Ritzman, Albert Robert 2 755
Rockwell, Frank Wade 2 371
Rohnwe, Joseph A. 3 557
Rowley, Arthur James 2 123
Rutledge, John Stuart 3 485
Sawyer, Teddy, Miss 2 275
Scanlon, Daniel A. 3 407
Schnee, Charles Frederick 2 131
Schneider, Philip Henry 2 227
Seiberling, Charles Willard 2 75
Seiberling, Franklin Augustus 2 5
Seiberling, Gustavus 3 349
Seiberling, John Frederick 2 35
Seikel, George Ralph, M. D. 3 629
Seymour, Horace S. 2 403
Sheffield, Eugene K. 2 673
Shoemaker, William Lewis 3 181
Shriber, Bert Alvin 3 709
Sieber, George Washington, Hon. 3 401
Sieber, Joseph Byron 3 479
Simmons, Allen T. 3 355
Sirilo, Frank 2 531
Sisler, Houston 2 339
Skinner, John Harry 3 593
Slusser, Clifton 2 585
Spuller, Joseph H. 3 449
Steinert, Fred J. 2 222
Steinke, Carl Rossow, M.D. 3 47
Stiles, Cecil Oliny 2 387
Stone, Nelson Clarke 2 195
Strobel, Christian A. 2 729
Stumpf, Elmer Robert, M.D. 3 537
Swartz, Edward Wallace 3 166
Sweeny, Charles Eugene 3 587
Swigart, Sherman George 2 395
Teeple, Aaron G. 2 523
Teeple, Harry David 2 623
Theiss, Herman C., M. D. 2 219
Thomas, Homer L. 2 115
Thomas, John Warren 2 571
Thomas, John Webster 3 215
Thornton, Darwin William 3 139
Treash, Philip Burdell, Judge 2 291
Trump brothers 3 673
Trunko, Eugene F. 3 395
Van Gunten, Christian William 2 723
Vaughn, Calvin W. 3 509
Vaughn, Leland A. 2 703
Volke, Anton 2 315
Wade, Clarence Eugene 2 653
Wadsworth, George Henry 3 125
Wagner, Harold S. 2 483
Wagner, Milton Arthur, Rev. 3 667
Walker, Grover C. 2 669
Way, Charles Edgar 3 431
Welch, William 2 639
Welker, William Peter 2 411
Werner, Roy G., M. D. 3 223
Wilcox, Charles Lee 2 739
Wilcox, Frank A. 2 27
Wild, Curtis A. 3 383
Wilhelm, Ray M. 3 497
Williams, Harry 3 653
Williams, Henry Evan 2 347
Williams, John Kemp 3 75
Wilson, William, M. D. 3 437
Winter, Maurice Christian 2 187
Witten, Arthur Preston 2 713
Witwer, Rollo Carl 3 153
Woodward, Harry E., D. O. 2 618
Wuchter, William Wallace 3 623
Ziliox, Samuel Frederick 2 65
Zintel, Casper 2 235
     
  BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX for Vols. I & II  

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