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Source:
AKRON
and
SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO
1825 - 1928
Volumes II & III
Illustrated
Publ. Chicago and Akron
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1928
< CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO
LIST OF HISTORY & BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES >

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I. - Akron and Summit County - PARTIALLY
finished 7/21/2019 |
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CHAPTER II. - Planning and Development |
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CHAPTER III. - Akron's Neighbors - Summit Cities and
Villages |
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CHAPTER IV. - Women and Their Organizations |
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CHAPTER V. - The Romance of Industry |
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CHAPTER VI. - Banks and Financial Organizations |
327 |
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CHAPTER VII. - The Growth of Commercial
Organizations |
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CHAPTER VIII. - Publications and Publishers |
365 |
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CHAPTER IX. - The Progress of Education |
390 |
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CHAPTER X. - Education for Youth of County |
435 |
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CHAPTER XI. - Catholic Schools and Other
Organizations |
447 |
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CHAPTER XII. - The Bench and Bar |
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CHAPTER XIII. - The Medical Profession of Summit
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CHAPTER XIV. - Church Growth is Rapid |
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CHAPTER XV. - Fraternal, Civic and Business Service
Organizations |
516 |
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CHAPTER XVI. - Progressive Jewish Organizations |
534 |
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CHAPTER XVII. - Military Affairs |
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CHAPTER XVIII - Political Campaigns |
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CHAPTER XIX. - City Government and Public Service |
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CHAPTER XX. - Merchants Develop Fine Stores |
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CHAPTER XXI. - Social Service |
645 |
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CHAPTER XXII. - Art Music, Literature and Amusements |
656 |
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CHAPTER XXIII. - Transcription and Communication and
Public Utilities |
682 |
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CHAPTER XXIV - Labor Organizations |
696 |
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CHAPTER XXV. - Agriculture |
701 |
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ILLUSTRATIONS: |
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-- 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
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Ginther,
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Harper, John Franklin |
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Haupe,
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Hausch, John |
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Hawkins, Eugene Adelbert |
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Hawthorne, David E.,
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Henry, Albert Reed |
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Hepner, Daniel H. |
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Holliday, Aubrey Watters, Mrs. |
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Holton,
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Hower,
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Huber,
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Jackson,
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Keeler, Stephen E.,
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Killian, Fred Leo |
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Kirn,
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Kirk, Willliam
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Parlett,
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Rohnwe, Joseph A. |
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Rowley, Arthur James |
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Rutledge, John Stuart |
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Sawyer, Teddy, Miss |
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Scanlon, Daniel A. |
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Schnee, Charles
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Schneider, Philip Henry |
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Seiberling, Charles
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Seiberling, Franklin
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Seiberling, John
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Seymour, Horace S. |
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Sheffield, Eugene K. |
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Shoemaker, William
Lewis |
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Shriber,
Bert Alvin |
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Sieber,
George Washington, Hon. |
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Sieber, Joseph Byron |
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Simmons, Allen T. |
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Sirilo,
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Sisler, Houston |
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Skinner, John Harry |
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Slusser,
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Spuller, Joseph H. |
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Steinert, Fred J. |
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Steinke, Carl Rossow,
M.D. |
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Stiles,
Cecil Oliny |
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Stone, Nelson Clarke |
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Strobel,
Christian A. |
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Stumpf, Elmer Robert,
M.D. |
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Swartz, Edward
Wallace |
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Sweeny, Charles
Eugene |
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Swigart,
Sherman George |
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Teeple,
Aaron G. |
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Teeple,
Harry David |
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Theiss, Herman C., M.
D. |
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219 |
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Thomas, Homer L. |
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115 |
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Thomas, John Warren |
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571 |
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Thomas, John Webster |
3 |
215 |
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Thornton, Darwin
William |
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139 |
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Treash, Philip
Burdell, Judge |
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291 |
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Trump
brothers |
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673 |
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Trunko,
Eugene F. |
3 |
395 |
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Van Gunten, Christian
William |
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Vaughn, Calvin W. |
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509 |
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Vaughn, Leland A. |
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703 |
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Volke, Anton |
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315 |
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Wade, Clarence Eugene |
2 |
653 |
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Wadsworth, George
Henry |
3 |
125 |
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Wagner,
Harold S. |
2 |
483 |
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Wagner,
Milton Arthur, Rev. |
3 |
667 |
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Walker, Grover C. |
2 |
669 |
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Way,
Charles Edgar |
3 |
431 |
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Welch, William |
2 |
639 |
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Welker,
William Peter |
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411 |
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Werner, Roy G., M. D. |
3 |
223 |
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Wilcox, Charles Lee |
2 |
739 |
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Wilcox, Frank A. |
2 |
27 |
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Wild, Curtis A. |
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383 |
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Wilhelm, Ray M. |
3 |
497 |
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Williams, Harry |
3 |
653 |
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Williams, Henry Evan |
2 |
347 |
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Williams, John Kemp |
3 |
75 |
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Wilson, William, M. D. |
3 |
437 |
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Winter, Maurice
Christian |
2 |
187 |
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Witten,
Arthur Preston |
2 |
713 |
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Witwer, Rollo Carl |
3 |
153 |
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Woodward, Harry E.,
D. O. |
2 |
618 |
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Wuchter, William
Wallace |
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Ziliox, Samuel
Frederick |
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Zintel,
Casper |
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