Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County [O.]

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Beacon Job Department, 1892 - 1167 pages
 

Contents

Akron Wholesale Grocery Company 512
44
Village Rivalries 18351845
46
Summit Guards 350
47
Akron IncorporatedFirst Charter ElectionEarly MayorsThe
49
Early CrookednessConfidence Games Keg Money Etc
57
The Boom and the CollapsePoetry versus FactSpeculation
64
The CrossCut CanalCharter Granted in 1827Preliminary
71
Kerst the Peninsula Homicide 578
72
Empire House Corner Market and Main
73
The Portage Canal and Manufacturing Company or Chuckery
80
Summit CountySix Years Struggle Over its ErectionRejoic
91
Spalding Rufus P Ravenna 1839 to 1840 page
92
Absolute Chemical Company 498
107
Educational MattersPioneer Schools Model Examination
109
Academy of Music East Market Street 1891 458
111
Hartford City Plate Glass Company 508
112
Early Hotels 37
113
Advance The 230
114
Akrons First High School Building South Summit Street 1847
122
HeathmanHeathman Homicide 709
123
COOPER SAMUEL F Superintendent of Akron schools from 1853 to 1856
126
Waltz Miss Laura E Teacher
133
Akrons Present High School Building 1891
135
AKRONBeginning Why so Named 32
136
E Church Corner South Broadway and Church Streets 193
148
BUCHTEL JOHN R Akron by appointment of Governor Rutherford B Hayes
150
Sixth Battery at Washington Centennial 443
152
Akrons Literary Achievements Lyceum and Library Asso
168
UPSON WILLIAM H Akron by appointment of Governor Charles Foster
172
Soldiers Surplus Bounty Fund
176
EDGERTON SIDNEY Akron Governor of Montana Territory 1864 1865 Por
180
Cascade Roarer 225
187
Akrons ChurchesPioneer Religious OrganizationsSuccesses
188
Akrons First Church Building 1835
189
Akron Truly a Literary Center Ancient Middlebury the Pioneer
215
Alling Ethan 1061
217
AXTELL SAMUEL B Richfield appointed Governor of Utah Territory in 1875
221
American Cereal Company 457
223
Free School Clarion
225
Ohio Educational Monthly
229
American Farm News
230
Akrons Burial PlacesThe Old Sixth Ward Cemetery of 1808
232
King Varnish Company 474
241
Gothic Block East Side South Howard Street 1861 63
246
Northeast Akron View From West Hill 70
259
Akron and Portage Township Civil ServiceTown Village City
260
Clark Henry Akrons First Hotelkeeper 38
261
ANDREWS SHERLOCK J Cuyahoga county XV District 18401842
271
Early Schools Teachers etc 111
277
Citizens Savings and Loan Association 540
278
MCDONALD WILLIAM Z Akron appointed by Governor Joseph B Foraker
291
Ohio Exchange 47
295
Middlebury Mining Company 1849 1107
297
Wilson Thomas Northfield 1840 to 1844 page 901
298
Paul Robert S Akron 1870 to 1874 page 762
303
Scott David A Akron 1856 to 1859 page
304
Humphreyville Samuel Medina 1851 to 1856 page
306
Weaver Henry G Springfield 1840 to 1841 page 1001
307
American Marble and Toy Company 481
308
Public IlluminationThe Original Tallow Dip Followed
310
Coal Dealers
328
Akrons FiresHundreds of Houses Churches Stores Shops
330
Akrons First Fire Engine House 1841
332
Henrietta Eleanor Barber January 1 1868 instead of January 15 1863 as printed in part
336
Ohio National Guard 1864
399
Supplemental Draft
417
Cobb Charles B Pioneer Hotelkeeper 45
424
Militia During the War
426
Porter Zouaves
428
Ohio National Guard Guarding Coal Mines
430
Ohio National Guard Annual Encampments
438
Eighth Regiment Band
445
Lane Luman 1064
446
Ancient and Modern Akron ContrastedEarly Business
447
Akron Savings Bank Mill and Main 1891 543
448
SANDERS WILBUR F formerly of Akron now of Helena Montana
449
Ohio Exchange Corner Market and Main 18351855
450
Commercial Matters 512
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Leggett General M D Early School Superintendent 122
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WashburnPeoples Homicide 484
464
Eightyfourth Regiment O V I 417
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Miller Chain Works
474
Hill Adams Sewer Pipe Company
476
American Sewer Pipe Company
479
Ohio Stoneware Company
480
Company B Eighth Regiment O N G 436
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Hole Prof Israel P Educator 125
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months and 17 days
487
Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal 7179
523
Fugitive Slave Law 578
525
South Main Street Market to Mill Showing Court House 1855 72
527
Real Estate Agents
528
Millheim 986
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Angel Miss Harriet N Teacher 124
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Werner Printing Lithographing Company
536
Exchange Bank
539
Polishing and Plating Company 502
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Baker McMillen Company 474
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WOLCOTT CHRISTOPHER P Attorney General 1856 to 1861 Portrait page
553
Summit Countys TornadoesThe Stow Disaster of October
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Spicer School Building Carroll Street 131
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Tornado of May 10 1890 Overturned Houses of August Miller and Allen Coup
564
Akrons First Last and Only HomicideThe Sixth Ward Wife
569
The Irrepressible Conflict The Infamous Fugitive Slave
577
Barbers 511
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The Canadian Patriot War of 18371839 Hunters Lodges
593
Second AdventismThe End of the World Predicted
604
The Geology of Summit County by Professor Matthew Can
614
Summit Countys Railroads Early Railway History
621
The Township of BathEarly Settlement with Portraits
640
Barber Match Company 464
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Mack Hiram H Bath 1873 to 1875 page
646
The Township of BostonEarly Settlement Organization
654
Daring Burglaries in Peninsula Singular Detection
670
The Peninsula Wife Murder Henry Kerst from Ambush
678
Bostons Last Great SensationThe WashburnPeoples Homi
684
Bounties Quotas Drafts etc 409
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Copley TownshipWhy so Named TopographyThe
695
The State of Coventry Origin of NameThe Indians
706
Recruiting in Rebel States 420
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ASSOCIATE Judges
718
BUCHTEL JOHN R 1872 voting for Ulysses S Grant for President and Henry
719
Cuyahoga Falls a Full History of its Beginning Progress
725
Neracher Sprinkler Company 509
737
Brown Jim and Dan 876
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Newberry Henry Jr
762
Johnston John C Northampton 1866 to 1872 page 863
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PAUL GEORGE Cuyahoga Falls member of Board of Public Works from 1878
766
The ParksBeatson Homicide One of the Most Cold
770
Dodge January 11 1892 aged 83 years 5 months and 13 days
773
Franklin TownshipEarly Resources Settlement Busi
784
The writer is without definite data in regard to the earlier collectors of tolls
793
Green Township When and by Whom Settled Organiza
796
Newberry Miss Josephine Teacher 128
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Hundred and EightyEighth O V I 407
811
Western Linoleum Company
824
Clark John B Hudson 1845 to 1846 page
846
OBrien William Hudson April 1840 to February 1842 page
847
MaloneyStepleton Homicide
850
Northampton Indian and Frontier MattersSettlement
854
The Counterfeiters of the CuyahogaDan and Jim Brown
876
Northfield Early Settlement Organization and Progress
898
Wallace George Y Northfield February 1842 to November 1842 page
901
Northfields Second Great Sensation The Murder of Catha
908
NortonOrigin Pioneer ExperiencesOrganizationEarly
918
The New Industrial City of BarbertonWonderful Growth
936
156
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Rexford Rev Everett L D D 159
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Dewey William H Akron 1848 to 1850 page 303
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The HunterGargett Tragedy LoveMaking by Proxy
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Springfield TownshipEarly Settlement Organization
979
Robeson W E the FarmerDetective 1149
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Stow TownshipHistorical and Incidental Pioneer Mir
1003
Wetmore Judge William
1005
Caldwell Charles G 1139
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Monroe FallsOne of the Early Booming Cities of Summit
1028
Whitman Barnes Manufacturing Company 471
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Tallmadge TownshipA Unique Arrangement of Roads Lots
1036
Twinsburg the Latest Settled Township in Summit County
1060
Beach Thomas Parnell Teacher 115
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Twinsburgs Soldiers Monument 1088
1073
StripeCooper Homicide 803
1080
First Ohio Light Artillery 384
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Summit Countys Benevolence Early Poor HousesPur
1087
Insurance Agencies 446
1091
Labor Fifty Years AgoHistory Repeating ItselfEarly Dis
1099
McMillan Reuben Early Manufacturer 45
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Akron and Summit County in California The Great Exodus
1106
California Goldseekers of 184950
1110
California Perils of the Journey to
1128
California Akrons Bonanza King
1138
Early Crimes and Other Incidents Within the Present Limits
1141
Some Clever Local Detective OperationsHow the Civil Offi
1148
Sanitary Aid Societies 418
1152
MiscellaneousPortrait and Biography of Rev William
1162

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