Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County : embellished by nearly six hundred engravings--portraits of pioneer settlers, prominent citizens, business, official and professional--ancient and modern views, etc.; nine-tenth's of a century of solid local history--pioneer incidents, interesting events--industrial, commercial, financial and educational progress, biographies, etc., Part 40

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228

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On the resignation, by Judge Benjamin J. Wade, of the Presi- dent Judgeship of the Third Judicial District, under the old con- stitution, on his election as United States Senator, by the Legis- lature, in March, 1851, George Bliss, Esq., then a prominent lawyer of Akron, was appointed Presiding Judge, who held the position until February, 1852, when he was superseded by Hon. Samuel Humphreyville, of Medina, the first regularly elected Judge for the Second Sub-district. Hon. James S. Carpenter, of Akron, was elected as Judge Humphreyville's successor in 1856, holding the position the full term of five years, when the office went to Judge Stephenson Burke, of Elyria. An extra Judgeship being created. in 1870, Hon. Samuel W. McClure was elected to the position in October of that year, holding the office five years and declining a re-election. In October, 1875, Hon. Newell D. Tibbals was elected as Judge McClure's successor, and re-elected in 1880. May 1, 1883, Judge Tibbals resigned, and ex-Probate Judge Ulysses L. Marvin was appointed by Gov. Charles Foster, to fill the vacancy, serving until the accession of Hon. Edwin P. Green, who was elected in October, 1883, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Tibbals (two years), and re-elected for the full term of five years in October, 1885; Gen. Alvin C. Voris, 1891-96.

JOHN KREUDER,-son of Henry and Mary D. (Lippert) Kreuder, was born' in Vadenrod, Greis, Als- feldt, Hesse - Darmstadt, Germany, June 24, 1839; came with parents to America in 1851, settling on farm in Chatham, Medina county ; six years schooling in Germany and three terms in Ohio ; in 1857 came to Akron as general utility man in " American House," kept by the late Florence Weber, Esq., on North Howard street; 1858 to 1872 (14 years) clerk in store of Hall Brothers ; then three years with G. C. Berry & Co .; in 1876 engaged in the grocery trade with the late Charles W. Bonstedt, under the firm name of Bonstedt & Kreuder, con- tinuing six years ; in 1882 engaged in grain and produce trade on his own account, the volume of his business in 1890 reaching nearly $400,000; is also a stockholder · in Schumacher Milling Co., Jones Wholesale Grocery Co., Peoples' Savings Bank and Akron Paving Brick Co .; was Park Commissioner 17 years - 1872-89 ; member of City Council 1889-91, the last year as president; was married December 31, 1863, to Miss Lana Grohe, of Randolph ; children-Anna

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JOHN KREUDER.

M., born January 14, 1865, died Feb- ruary 5, 1866; Minnnie E., born Nov- ember 14, 1867 ; Ida L., born January 2, 1870, died July 21, 1881; Dora E., born November 7, 1871, died January 10, 1877; William J., born April 2, 1874.

PROBATE JUDGES .- Previous to the adoption of the present constitution, in 1851, all probate business was transacted by the Court of Common Pleas. In October, 1851, Charles G. Ladd, Esq., father of the present Mrs. Gen. A. C. Voris, then a promising young member of the Summit County Bar, was elected to the office of Probate Judge for three years. Judge Ladd's rapidly failing health preventing him from giving his personal attention to the

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duties of the office, the business was organized and ably performed by his deputy clerk, Alvin C. Voris, Esq., as elsewhere detailed, until the death of Judge Ladd in August, 1852. Judge Constant Bryan succeeded Judge Ladd from 1852 to 1854. In 1860 William M. Dodge, of Akron, was elected, serving until his death, in July, 1861. Samuel A. Lane was commissioned by Governor William Dennison to fill the vacancy, but declining the honor, Ashael H. Lewis was appointed to serve until the ensuing October election, being succeeded by Judge Stephen H. Pitkin, eight years, Ulysses L. Marvin, six years, and' Samuel C. Williamson, six years, as already detailed in the chapters on Hudson and Stow.

H ENRY W. HART,-son of Adams and Isabella (Gangawer) Hart, was born in Akron September 19, 1852, his father doing faithful service in both the Mexican war and the war of the rebellion. Mr. Hart was educated in the Middlebury public schools ; at 16 apprenticing himself to the potter's trade, at which he worked 17 years, in 1882 embarking in that business for himself in partner- ship with Mr. Frank W. Rockwell, under the firm nanie of F. W. Rock- well & Co., the arrangement con- tinuing seven years; February 19, 1891, became one of the incorporators of the Akron Paving Brick Company, elsewhere noticed, of which he is superintendent and manager. In 1888 Mr. Hart was elected a member of the Akron City Council from the Sixth Ward, and re-elected in 1890, becoming the president of that body on its reorganization in April, 1891. June 15, 1882, Mr. Hart was married to Miss Hattie Johnson, daughter of the late Thomas Johnson, of the Sixth Ward, who has borne him four chil-

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HENRY W. HART.

dren, all living-Bessie, born January 8, 1884; Flossie, born June 1, 1885; Isabella, born November 15, 1888, and Henry Johnson, born December 29, 1890.

In October, 1881, Hon. Nathaniel W. Goodhue was elected Probate Judge, acceptably filling the position until his sudden death in September, 1883, his son and deputy clerk, Nathaniel P. Goodhue, continuing to act in that capacity under his father's suc- cessor, Judge Charles R. Grant, appointed to fill the vacancy by Gov. Foster September 16, 1883, elected for three years in 1884 and re-elected in 1887, serving nearly seven years and five months; Edward W. Stuart elected November, 1890, and still serving, with his son, Fred. H. Stuart, as his deputy clerk.

REPRESENTATIVES TO STATE LEGISLATURE .- At the time of the erection of Summit county, in March, 1840, Simon Perkins, Jr., of Akron, was State Senator, and Rufus P. Spalding, then of Ravenna, was one of the Representatives for Portage county. Mr. Spalding immediately thereafter removing to Akron, in 1841 Messrs. Perkins and Spalding were elected as the Representatives of the new county for the session of 1841, '42; John H. McMillen (Middlebury) 1842, for oue year; Hiram Bowen, Akron, 1845, one year; Harvey B. Spelman, 1849, one year; Nathaniel Finch, 1850, one year; Alvin C. Voris, 1859, two years; John Johnston (Middle- bury), 1861-63, four years; Sanford M. Burnham, 1871, two years;

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Leonidas S. Ebright, 1879, two years; J. Park Alexander, (see also Bath) 1881, two years; Jacob A. Kohler (see also Franklin) 1883, two years; Henry C. Sanford, 1887-91, four years.

AKRON IN STATE SENATE .- Simon Perkins, Jr., in office on erection of Summit county, in 1840, two years; Lucian Swift, 1848, two years; William H. Upson, (see also Tallmadge), 1853, two years; Lucius V. Bierce, 1861, two years; Newell D. Tibbals, 1865, two years; Nathaniel W. Goodhue, 1873, two years; George W. Crouse, (see also Green), 1885, two years; J. Park Alexander (see also Bath), 1887-91, four years.

AKRON IN CONGRESS .- Hon. George Bliss, 1854 to 1856; Hon. Sidney Edgerton (see also Tallmadge), 1858 to 1862, four years; Hon. William H. Upson (see also Tallmadge), 1869 to 1873, four years; David R. Paige, Jr., 1882 to 1884, two years; Hon. George W. Crouse (see also Green), 1886 to 1888, two years, declining a re-election.

H ARVEY F. MILLER,-son of Charles and Hannah (Bechtel) Miller, was born in Norton, Feb. 18, 1850; in boyhood worked on farnı and attended district school; in 1867 moved with parents to Akron, com- pleting his education in the Akron high school; in 1872, became a mien1- ber of the lumber and building firm of Miller, Thomas & Co .; in 1879, with Charles Miller and Henry D. Miller, formed the Miller Chain Company, and in 1883 became one of the incor- porators of the Miller Match Con- pany, of which he was the secretary and treasurer, and on the sale of the works, in 1890, formed a partnership with Mr. Samuel C. Dyke, under the firmi name of S. C. Dyke & Co., for the manufacture of marbles, miniature jugs and other stoneware novelties, retiring therefrom, July 30, 1891, on the organization of the American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Co., elsewhere fully written of; is also director of Akron Globe Sign Co., of Akron Novelty Manufacturing Co., and president of the Akron White Sand and Stone Co. Sept. 10, 1873, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Mary

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Hays, of Medina, who has borne him two sons -- Charles Hays, born June 5, 1874, now student in Military Academy, at Gambier, and Edwin Cloyd, born Aug. 1, 1883.

AKRON'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS .- In 1868, Hon. Stephen H. Pitkin, of Akron (see also Hudson), was Presidential Elector for the Eighteenth Congressional District, composed of Summit, Cuyahoga and Lake counties, and voted in the electoral college for Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, for President, and Schuyler Colfax, for Vice President. In 1872, in Eighteenth District, composed of Summit, Wayne, Medina and Lorain counties, Hon. John R. Buchtel was Presidential Elector, and voted for Ulysses S. Grant for President, and Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, for Vice- President. In 1880, district same as above, Hon. Nathaniel W. Goodhue, as Presidential Elector, voted for James A. Garfield, of Ohio, for President, and Chester A. Arthur, of New York, for Vice

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President. Ulysses L. Marvin, 1884, Twentieth District, composed of Summit, Medina, Wayne and Stark, voted for James G. Blaine for President and John A. Logan for Vice President.

DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION .- In 1850, William S. C. Otis, Esq., was Summit county's delegate to the Ohio Consti- tutional Convention. The convention met at Columbus May 6, 1850, and July 9 adjourned to meet in Cincinnati, closing its labors in that city March 10, 1851, the new constitution being voted upon

and adopted June 21, 1851, for twenty years; Summit county's vote standing 2,025 for and 2,013 against, being a majority of twelve, only, in its favor. Gen. Alvin C. Voris was delegate to the Consti- tutional Convention of 1873, which convened in the House of Representatives at Columbus, May 13, 1873, and on August 8, adjourned to meet in Cincinnati December 2, adjourning sine die February 3, 1874. The constitution formulated by this convention, though regarded by many as a great improvement over that of 1851, was rejected by the people at the special election held August 18, 1874, by a large majority, Summit county's vote standing 2,112 "for" and 2,774 " against," or an adverse majority of 662. In 1883, what is known as the Judicial Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, and in 1885 the amendment changing the general election from October to November; the so-called "Second Amendment," prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors, submitted in 1883, being voted down.

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WESTERNUNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE.

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West side of Howard Street, looking North from near Cherry Street. From photo by E. J. Howard, 1873.

CHAPTER XIV.

PUBLIC ILLUMINATION-THE OLD-TIME "TALLOW DIP"-SPERM OIL, GAS, PETRO- LEUM AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS-LOCAL TRANSPORTATION, HERDICS, HORSE- CARS, ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY-FUEL GAS, ETC.

AKRON'S ORIGINAL GAS WORKS.

W ITHIN the memory of the writer, the only method of either private or public illumination, was by the use of candles or sperm oil, for though some experiments had been made with gas, distilled from coal, as early as 1810 or 1812, its use as an illumina- tor did not become general in the United States, even in such cities as Boston, New York and Philadelphia, until about 1825.

HENRY STEPHEN ABBEY,-born in Portland, Middlesex county, Conn., November 5, 1808; at an early age removed to Glastenbury, and in 1828 to Bristol, where he learned the clock-making business. October 30, 1831, was married to Miss Elizabetlı Smith, of Torrington, Conn., immedi- ately removing to Buffalo, N. Y., and two years later to Niagara Falls, finally settling in Akron in 1835. Here, for two years, he was engaged in cabinet-making in South Akron, when he embarked in the jewelry business, in 1841 forming a partner- ship with Mr. Hiram Payne, and removing to the Stone Block, corner of Howard and Market streets, later establishing himself at 120 Howard street, where he was continuously and successfully in business until his sudden death, from heart disease, October 25, 1873, at the age of 64 years, 11 months and 20 days. Mr. Abbey was a fine musician, organizing and for many years leading Akron's pioneer band; was an intelligent florist,establishing the pioneer green- house of the village, and was a liberal promoter of all public improvements; was a member, and president, of Akron's pioneer gas company, and served as a member of the Village Council for the years 1856, '57. Of

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HENRY STEPHEN ABBEY.

the several children born to Mr. and Mrs. Abbey, Henry E. Abbey, now of New York, only survives, though their adopted daughter, Ellen G., now Mrs. S. E. Phinney, most fully shared their confidence and love. Mrs. Abbey died July 1, 1874, aged 66. years, 9 months and 25 days.

Previous to 1855, the streets of Akron were unlighted, except at private expense, in front of the hotels, and perhaps half a dozen public lamps at the business corners of the two villages, with sperm oil at first, and afterwards, lard oil; coal oil not then having come into vogue, and petroleum, for illuminating purposes, never dreamed. of.

But about the latter date (1855) largely through the proprietary agency of the late Henry S. Abbey, Thomas H. Goodwin, Esq., and others, the Akron Gas Company was organized, the works being erected on South Howard street, immediately north of the

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W. B. Doyle planing mill. As a matter of supposed economy, vit- rified stone waterpipe was used for mains, but it was soon found that while the glazed pipe itself was impervious, the cement joints were porous, besides their liability to disturbance from settling, entailing, through leakage, a heavy percentage of loss to the com- pany, and considerable annoyance to citizens, by the offensive odor arising therefrom, necessitating, after a year or two, the sub- stitution of iron mains, at a heavy expense for material and labor.

THOMAS H. GOODWIN,-born in Province of New Brunswick, Canada, Oct. 10, 1810; common school education; worked on farm till 21, then served three years at carpen- ter's trade; in August, 1835, came to United States, working in Provi- dence, R. I., and New York City; came to Akron in October, 1837, work- ing seven years as pattern maker for Judge James R. Ford, in old Ætna Furnace; in 1847 engaged in manu- facture of plows and other agricul- tural implements on South Howard street; on its organization in 1855, was secretary and superintendent of the Akron Gas Company for about eight years; an original stockholder, and two years book-keeper of Weary, Snyder and Wilcox Manufacturing Co .; original stockholder and direc- tor in Akron Cold Spring Co .; an active member of Akron's second Fire Company, Niagara No. 2, orga- mized Dec. 1845; member of Akron Village Council, 1850, '54, '56 and '59; Akron's first regularly elected City Street Commissioner, serving from 1869 to 1873; for many years acting as chorister and filling various official positions in First M. E. Church, of Akron, assisting in organizing its first Sabbath School, and in erecting three church edifices on the site of the present structure. June, 1839, was married at Troy, Miami Co., to Miss

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THOMAS H. GOODWIN.

Josephine M. Field (teacher), sister of the late Mrs. L. J. Ives. Four children were born to them-Alfred Davison, died at Baltimore, Md., Jan. 18, 1880, aged 40 years; Clara Fidelia, died Ang. 6, 1883, aged 41 years; Pomeroy Field, died in infancy; and Helen Pamela, now Mrs. William Renwick, of Davenport, Iowa. Mrs. Goodwin died Oct. 6, 1888, aged 79 years.

THE PRESENT COMPANY.

After quite a number of changes of ownership and manage- ment, the works in 1865, were purchased by Mr. Thomas W. Cor- nell and others, with Mr. Cornell as president, and William Mc- Farlin secretary and treasurer, under a very liberal franchise from the Council, not only in regard to the use of streets, alleys and public grounds, but also in regard to the price of gas, by ordi- nance fixing the maximum at $3.30 per thousand feet, to both the city and private citizens.

This, it will be remembered, was during the reign of inflated war values of every description, and though, as other values de- creased, some concessions were made on the price of gas, the then members of the Council thought the company did not keep pace with the general reduction, and not only substituted petroleum oil for street lighting purposes, but, by ordinance, fixed the maxi- room price of gas to the city at $1.25, and to private consumers at

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$1.50 per thousand feet. The company claiming that the city, by the terms of its ordinance, was under a contract to use its gas, at least to the extent of the lamps already erected, commenced a suit for its enforcement, which, after protracted litigation, was decided in the city's favor. The Gas Company, acting under legal advice, never acceded to the requirements of the restricting ordinance alluded to, its bills to consumers, for several years, being made out at the rate of $2.00 per thousand feet, with a small rebate on all bills of $5.00 or over per month, later reducing the price to $1.40; the city, as above intimated, entirely discontinuing its use. The company, meantime had removed its works to the north part of the city, and greatly enlarged its facilities, and is still one of the substantial institutions of the city, the plant being sold to other parties, August 1, 1891, with George T. Perkins, F. Adolph Schu- macher, Ernest F. Lloyd, Gordon W. Lloyd, and Charles Stinch- field as directors-Gordon W. Lloyd, president and treasurer ; Ernest F. Lloyd, secretary, and James W. Lane, superintendent.

ELECTRIC LIGHT EXPERIMENT.

Soon after the culmination of the differences between the Council and the gas company, as above briefly outlined, the project of lighting cities by electricity, began to be mooted, and Akron was the very first of the smaller cities of the country to try the ex- periment. In 1880 an arrangement was made with the Brush Electric Light Company, of Cleveland, by which the necessary apparatus was purchased, the mast system being adopted. A cen- tral mast, composed of gradually tapering boiler iron, 210 feet in height above the surface of the ground, was erected at the inter- section of Howard and Market streets, from the head of which was suspended four lamps of 4,000 candle power each; a wooden mast of about fifty feet in height elevated upon the dome of Buchtel College, furnished with four equally powerful lamps, and a like mast upon the tower of the Central engine house with one 4,000 candle-power lamp, making nine in all, the boiler, engine, dyna- mos, etc., owned and run by the city, being placed in an annex built for that purpose upon the north side of the Central building, corner of Church and High streets.

So far as tried, the system worked well, but before being ex- tended into other portions of the city, on the theory that the city could buy its light cheaper than it could produce it, on the 14th day of June, 1883, an ordinance was passed leasing the plant to the Akron Electric Light and Power Company-George G. Baker, president; Ira M. Miller, vice president; Hugo Schumacher, secre- tary and treasurer, and W. J. Hillier, manager-for the period of one year, the company stipulating to furnish the necessary car- bons, and keep the lamps upon the masts lighted, at 25 cents per lamp per hour, on an agreed schedule, during the continuance of said lease.

July 21, 1884, a contract was entered into, by ordinance, with the Citizen's Electric Light Company-Henry Robinson, presi- dent; Dr. O. D. Childs, secretary and treasurer, and S. E. Phinney, superintendent-for the lighting of the streets and public build- ings of the city, by the Thompson-Houston system; the street lamps being suspended from poles at the intersections of the

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streets, there being at the present time 210 lamps in use, and the arrangement so far reasonably satisfactory-the masts, meantime, having been taken down, and the engine and other property trans- ferred to the new company. The present street lamps have a nominal strength of 2,000 candle-power each, the contract price being three and a half cents per lamp, per hour, with a guarantee of $84 per lamp per year. For a time the city building was also lighted by this company, but now, from dynamos invented and constructed by Chief Engineer Frank F. Loomis, the building is lighted by the city's own incandescent lamps at a cost of one-half cent per lamp per hour.

PIONEER STREET RAILROAD.

April 16, 1883, a franchise was granted to the Akron Street Railway and Herdic Company-Ira M. Miller, president, Wm. Christy, secretary and treasurer, and John E. Metlin, superin- tendent-to lay a railway track through Howard and Main streets, from Furnace street to the south corporation line, the franchise to continue for the period of 25 years. The line was constructed the same year, and successfully operated for some time, with an extension, in 1887, to Lake Side Park, on the east side of Summit Lake, about one mile south of the city limits, Mr. John Wilson, of the Sixth Ward, for several years, having run a half-hourly line of comfortable Herdic coaches, on Market street, between Howard street and Case avenue in the Sixth Ward.

ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY.

July 2, 1888, Council, by ordinance, granted the use of the streets of the city to the Akron Street Railway Company-Gen. John S. Casement, of Painesville, president; S. T. Everett, of Cleve- land, vice president, and F. C. Bangs, of Cleveland, secretary-its cars to be run by electricity instead of horse power, the new com- pany having purchased the franchise and property of the old com- pany for the sum of $30,000 in cash, $15,000 in the stock of the new organization, and the assumption of the $20,000 bonded indebted- ness of the old company.

The new company erected its plant-a substantial brick build- ing-a short distance north of the King Varnish Works, on Canal street, and had its cars running the entire length of Market street early in the Fall of 1888, since extended through Main, Mill, College, Buchtel avenue, Spicer, Exchange, Grant, Bowery, Wooster avenue, etc., the application of power being by the trolley system- a wire over the center of the track suspended by lateral wires attached to poles on either side of the street, and capable of a speed of fourteen to fifteen miles per hour.

CHANGE OF PROPRIETORSHIP.

November 1, 1889, a deal was made between Messrs. S. T. Everett, of Cleveland, and John F. Seiberling, of Akron, by which the former became the owner of the Academy of Music property, and the latter of a controlling interest in the Electric Street Rail- way Company, since which time improvements have been vigor- ously pushed, so that now (August, 1891), there are 15 miles of track

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in successful operation, with a roster of 175 employes, the present officers being: John F. Seiberling, president; John S. Casement, vice president; Frank A. Seiberling, secretary and treasurer, and John E. Metlin, superintendent; directors, John F., Frank A. and Charles W. Seiberling, John S. Casement and Willis D. Chapman.

FUEL GAS COMPANY.

The experiment of boring for natural gas, in and near the city, having failed of success, the attention of the people of Akron has naturally been turned toward the several systems of producing artificial gas for heating as well as illuminating purposes, that have recently been devised, and on August 13, 1888, a franchise was granted to the Loomis Gas Company, of Michigan, to use the streets, alleys and public grounds of the city, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants thereof with fuel and illuminating gas, which, under the improved process of manufacture, it was believed would place Akron fully on a par with towns at present supplied with natural gas, with far greater assurance of permanence than those somewhat uncertain "holes in the ground" can furnish to those who erect costly manufacturing plants on the strength thereof.

In October, 1888, the franchise was transferred to the Akron Light, Heat & Power Company, which has erected a substantial plant in the Sixth ward, and is rapidly extending its pipes through the city, the present prices of gas being: fuel, thirty cents per thousand feet; illuminating, fifty cents; light and fuel, thirty-five cents; the present officers of the company being: Gordon W, Lloyd, president; Ferd. Schumacher vice president; Ernest F. Lloyd, secretary; F. Adolph Schumacher, treasurer; James W. Lane, superintendent; Olaf L. Guldlin, engineer.

The above array, added to her magnificent Fire Department, with three first-class steamers, stationed in different portions of the city; hose reels and other apparatus, with well-trained teams to haul them; its own unsurpassed system of automatic electrical alarms, and its thoroughly organized corps of engineers and fire- men, supplemented by the splendid system of water works, herein described, a largely patronized telephone system, and free delivery of mail matter by an efficient corps of letter carriers, places Akron decidedly in the van, among the second-class cities of the State, on the score of public works; while her manufactur- ing, mechanical, commercial and professional status, as given in the succeeding chapters, gives to her, fairly and honestly, the title accorded to her, by even her most formidable rivals, of "The Tip-Top City."

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Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905 Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228