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 44

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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Filled with valuable machinery and printing materials, stationery, papers, books, etc., on the morning of April 27, 1872, the entire structure, with its contents, evidently the work of an incendiary, was destroyed by fire, with a loss to the company of $23,000 and to the proprietor of the building of $5,000, Mr. Reming- ton also sustaining a loss of about $4,000.

The adjoining building on the north, owned by Hiram Allen,. the lower floor of which, then, as now, was occupied by J. B. Storer & Co., jewelers, (also considerable losers) was injured to the extent of about $2,000, while in the jewelry store of H. S. Abbey & Co., adjoining on the south, an explosion occurred, probably from an expansion of air through the super-heated wall (the room being kept tightly closed), blowing out the entire glass front and the rear windows, but doing no further very serious damage. The building of G. H. Helfer & Son, north of the Allen block, was also, with stock of drugs, damaged to the amount of about $400. '

AN IRREPARABLE PUBLIC LOSS .- Not only to the BEACON Com- pany itself, but to the public at large, the loss of its newspaper files, almost from the beginning of the county, together with Mr. Lane's private files for ten years, and hislargecabinet of curiosities and relics, was an almost irreparable calamity, though through the- kindness of friends, in bringing in back numbers, the preservation of a portion of the volumes, by the County Auditor and City Clerk,. and the purchase by Mr. Lane from Mr. Hiram Bowen, and ship- ment from Dakota, some four or five years ago, of the first eight volumes of the BEACON, nearly complete files from April, 1839, to. the present time, are available to the historian and antiquarian,. and should be preserved with the utmost security and care.

ANOTHER CLOSE CALL .- After its total annihilation, April 27th, as above related, the BEACON established temporary quarters in the second and third stories of Cutter & Howe's block, ordering type, cases, paper, etc., by express, immediately resuming the pub- lication of the paper, with its own material, though for a time dependent upon the City Times presses in the matter of printing.

On the night of June 28, 1872, the BEACON had another close call, from an undoubtedly incendiary fire in the adjoining building on the north, occupied by Mr. Jonathan Long, as a clothing store; not only destroying the entire stock of clothing, but the entire interior and roof of the building also, besides which the flames. crept through the wall, doing considerable damage to paper and other materials in the BEACON office, and also setting fire to the roof of the building. Losses: Long, on clothing, $20,000; Israel Isbell and Charles F. Glasser, on building, $6,000, the latter being wholly and the former about two-thirds covered by insurance.

MATHEWS' SPLENDID BLOCK .- At 12 o'clock, on the night of June 30, 1872, the newly reconstructed block, owned by the late James Mathews, was discovered to be on fire in the attic. The lower story was occupied by Beebe & Elkins, books and drugs; Milton H. Hart, cigar store, and Beck & Herman, boots and shoes.

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Second story: Mathews & Son, insurance; Western Union Tele- graph, G. T. Ford, attorney, and for sleeping rooms by William C. Allen, G. T. Ford, A. C. Lohmann, M. H. Hart and Messrs. Beck and Herman. The third floor and large mansard attic were occu- pied by Cascade Division, Sons of Temperance. Loss on building $10,000; books and drugs, $5,000; boots and shoes, $5,000; other losses, including the law library of Judge McClure, then in Europe, probably $5,000, making a total of $25,000, and but partially covered by insurance.

ANOTHER MIDNIGHT "MYSTERY."-August 22, 1872, at 12 o'clock A. M., the photograph gallery of Mr. J. J. McFadden, near Masonic Temple, was discovered to be on fire, the flames spreading so rapidly that the building was entirely consumed, with an alleged loss of $2,000 and an insurance of $1,000.

INCENDIARISM STILL RAMPANT .- At 12:30 A. M., on the morning of August 23, 1872, the barns of Dr. William Bowen and Gen. G. W. McNeil, on the alley between High street and Broadway, were burned at a loss of $300 and $400 to their owners respectively. Incendiary without doubt. At 10:02 A. M., August 23, 1872, a room in the rear of the Y. M. C. A. rooms, in the Academy of Music building, used as a storage room by the Ladies' Relief Committee, was found to be on fire, the impression prevailing that a box of clothing had purposely been ignited by some evil-disposed person, who had by some means gained access to the room. About this time, also in the day time, a fire was discovered in one of the apartments of Phoenix Block, which could only be accounted for upon the hypothesis of incendiarism. Several transient suspects were arrested, but nothing could be proved against them, and one local suspect was so closely interrogated in regard to his intimate relations to the several fires in question that he incontinently left the city, and has never returned, and for nearly a year and a half the city enjoyed comparative immunity from that class of conflagrations.

1873-RATHER A LIGHT RECORD .- April 30, 1873, the tin and stove store of Wright & Freer, a story and a half frame building, near the north end of the present beautful Arcade Block, South Howard street, with a considerable portion of its contents, was destroyed. Loss on building and stock $2,000. June 10, 1873, the brewery of Fred Oberholtz, on North Forge, street, was burned at 3 o'clock A. M. Loss on building and stock, including 1,000 bushels of grain and 13 bales of hops, $13,000; insurance, $5,000. In the cold storage room, in tanks and vats, 15,000 kegs of beer were for- tunately, or unfortunately, saved. December 23, 1873, at 1:30 A. M., the two-story frame grocery store of Wm. Fink, corner of South Broadway and Exchange streets, with nearly all its contents, was burned. Loss $5,000, fully insured.

THE FIRES OF 1874 .- March 2, 1874, for the second time, the Fire Brick works of J. Park Alexander, on Cannl street, greatly enlarged and improved, was destroyed at a loss of $10,000 with an insurance of but $3,500. The frame building on the north, used by Mr. Alexander as machine repair shop, was saved by the efforts of the firemen, Mr. Alexander the next day presenting the depart- ment with a check for $50 for the benefit of the Relief Fund. The three-story brick block belonging to Mr. Arthur Malcolm, 119

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Howard street, now occupied by Chandler, Findley & Co., station- ers, then occupied by George W. Camp & Son, clothiers and mer- chant tailors, was burned at midnight, March 27, 1874. Losses : Camp & Son, $12,500; insurance $10,000. Malcolm on building and personal property, $2,500; insured. On the night of April 20, in the building owned by A. Eichenlaub, immediately south of the present furniture store of Dodge & Plumer, the office of the Daily Argus, and general job printing works of H. G. Canfield & Co., was burned, the next day the fire taking a fresh start and involv- ing, in partial ruin, the buildings of D. G. Sanford and W. B. & J. G. Raymond, (occupied by I. Cohen & Co.) on either side. Losses : Canfield & Co., $10,000; Eichenlaub, $6,000; Raymond, $3,500; San- ford, building $500, stock, $4,500-total, $24,500, partly covered by insurance, Mr. Canfield's net loss being $3,000. July 29, "The Block," (in an early day known as Rhodes' Hotel) in the Sixth Ward, owned by Samuel Blackie, Michael Murphy and Henry Donohue, and occupied by seven or eight families. Total loss $2,500. September 8, the American House, a large frame hotel, for many years kept by the late Florence Weber, on the east side of North Howard street. Loss $6,000 with $4,000 insurance. Septem- cer 11, Excelsior Stoneware works of Shenkel Brothers, on Foun- tain street. Loss $13,000; insurance $7,000. October 30, Lewis Miller's fine residence, West Side Heights. Loss $12,000. Decem- ber 15, two-story frame building on the present site of Barber's block, South Howard street, owned and occupied as a clothing store by Simon Joseph. Loss $2,000.

THE DISASTERS OF 1875 .- April 18, the dwelling house of Washi- ington Martin, Akron's veteran barber, 102 James street. Loss $2,000. June 13, the carriage works and blacksmith shop of Harp- ham Brothers, Sixth Ward. Loss $5,000. Loss to ten or twelve customers whose buggies were being repaired, painted, etc., $1,000. August 12, dwelling house of Theron A. Noble, corner Ash and Bowery streets. Loss $6,000. August 20, (Sunday) bone-dust and fertilizer factory of Leopold & Hedeman, foot of Sherbondy hill, north of Wooster avenue. Loss about $4,000 with no insurance.

1876-EPIDEMIC INCENDIARISM .- February 13, dwelling house of Ambrose L. Cotter, junction of East Market and Middlebury streets. Loss $4,000. Accidental. On the night of April 28, about 9 o'clock, a small building connected with the cooper-shop of C. B. Maurer, corner of Church street and Quarry alley and. extending around to High street. Being of the most inflammable material, the entire establishment was at once enveloped in flames, which were soon communicated to the carriage works of C. A. Collins & Son, upon the west, the dwelling house of Mr. John Prier, on the east, as well as to several buildings on the north side of Church street, which were all destroyed, with nearly all their contents. Losses : C. B. Maurer, $10,000; Collins, $14,000; John Prier, $2,500; D. A. Scott, barn, etc., $1,000; Berg & Koch, groceries, $1,000; sundry tenants, $500. On the same night the pottery works of W. B. Gamble & Co., in the Sixth Ward, were burned with a loss of from $2,000 to $3,000. Two days later, on Sunday, April 30, between two and three o'clock P. M., the box and variety works of Baker & Mc- Millen, west of canal, on Bowery street, were totally destroyed, at a loss of $5,000, immediately followed by the burning of the office and lumber in the yard of S. N. Wilson, east of postoffice, $400, and

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directly afterwards by a stubborn fire in the basement of the rake factory, immediately north of the jail, with a loss to Col. Simon Perkins, owner of the building, of $500, and an additional loss to Collins & Son, on property removed thither from their own burn- ing building, of $100.

CAPTURE OF THE INCENDIARIES .- Three days later the barn of Matthew Shouler, on Water street, was burned at a loss of $375, and on the same night two young men, James Peck and George Bates, alias "Scottie" Moore, were arrested on suspicion of being the incendiaries. Both were indicted, tried and convicted, the first being sentenced to four, and the latter, three, years in the peni- tentiary.

A short time afterwards, five boys ranging from 15 to 17 years, William Langendorf, Frank Glatthar, George Kimpflin, Charles Ley and Jacob L. Steinel, were arrested and indicted for causing the several other rapidly succeeding fires above alluded to. George Kimpflin, on trial was acquitted; Langendorf and Ley forfeited their bonds, $500 each ; and Glatthar and Steinel were convicted and each sentenced to five years imprisonment. The lesson though severe, was wholesome, not only to the boys implicated but to other mischievously inclined youngsters, not to allow their fun-loving propensities to run in so dangerous a direction.

On the night of October 31, 1876, Sumner's Opera House and Hotel, corner of North Howard and Tallmadge streets, were con- sumed with an alleged loss of $65,000 with a partial insurance only.

1877-RECORD COMPARATIVELY LIGHT .- The Fire Department report 39 fires in 1877, with an aggregate loss of $77,135, and an aggregate insurance of $43,075, One of the most serious fires of the year, occurred on the night of May 3rd, occasioned by the breaking of a lamp in the basement of L. H. Limbert & Son's furniture store, 130, 132 and 134 North Howard street. The build- ing, two stories in front and three stories in the rear, with its entire contents, was consumed, and also the two-story building of John Robb, 128, and the one-story building of P. D. and Orlando Hall, 124 and 126-the barns of Limbert and Robb in the rear, with considerable damage to other nearby buildings. Losses reported ; Limbert, $4,000 on building, $13,000 on stock, and $800 on barn, with $7,000 insurance; Robb, $3,000 on stock, $2,000 on store and barn, with $1,720 insurance ; Hall, loss, $1,000, insurance $500; other losses $400. August 27, the planing mill of Miller & Kratz (now Thomas Lumber Co.) west of Canal, was burned, at a loss to the proprietors on building, machinery and material, of $25,000, and an insurance of $10,500. Mr. D. A. James, manufacturer of office and church furniture, etc., occupying the second story, also suf- fered a loss of $1,200 with no insurance. October 17, agricultural warehouse of Mr. David S. Alexander, on Canal street (now elec- tric light station) was consumed with a loss of from $10,000 to $12,000. Insurance on building $2,000, on contents $6,000.

1878-FEW FIRES-HEAVY LOSSES .- There were twenty-seven alarms during the year, with losses aggregating $172,161, and an aggregate insurance of $102,651. May 31, saloon and dwelling house of William Doren, corner Mill and High streets. Loss, $1,500; insurance, $3,000. The most formidable fire of the season

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occurred at 1:30 o'clock on the morning of June 18th, when Com- merce block, belonging to Mr. Jacob Good, and the Academy of Music, belonging to Mr. John F. Seiberling, were destroyed, with a loss to Mr. Seiberling of $50,000, with $18,000 insurance only, Mr. Good's loss being $40,000, insured for $33,000. The two store rooms in Commerce block were occupied respectively by Mr. A. C. Loh- mann, with millinery goods, and Mr. John Sebring, with general dry goods; the second story as the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, sleeping room of Mr. William C. Allen, etc. The first floor of the Academy of Music building was occupied by the Bank of Akron, and Auble, Brown & Co., dry goods; the sec- ond floor by Upson, Ford & Baird, Foster, Marvin & Grant, and S. W. McClure, attorneys, Allen & Bock, insurance, and others, the basement by William Besnecker, billiard room and saloon. The fire originated in the store room of Mr. John Sebring-a new-comer to Akron-and as it began with a loud explosion, and as it was soon learned that there was a heavy insurance upon the stock, it was believed that Mr. Sebring, leaving one jet burning, had purposely turned on all the other burners, thus naturally causing ignition in all parts of the nearly air-tight room, as soon as it should become filled with the escaping vapor.

The indignation of the people was intense, for a time nearly reaching the lynching point. Mr. Sebring was arrested for arson, and lodged in jail, but exhibiting duplicate bills of purchase to a larger amount than the insurance thereon, he was not proceeded against, though there were still many who believed there was something crooked about the transaction.

Losses to tenants were: Lohmann (one-third of stock saved) $8,000, insured; Sebring $16,000 to $18,000; insurance $14,000; Western Union $400 to $500, no insurance; W. C. Allen, furniture, carpets, library, etc., $1,500, insurance $1,000; Auble, Brown & Co., goods mostly removed, loss light; Bank of Akron, furniture mostly removed, books, papers, money, etc., in vault, intact; Besnecker, loss $2,500, insurance $1,500; contents of offices, in Academy of Music, mostly removed, miscellaneous losses being about 31,000. August 31, dwelling house of Hugh McFarland, 306 Perkins street. Loss $2,000; no insurance. November 5, Leopold's Block, South Akron. Loss $1,100; insurance $8,500. December 24, pottery of Gamble & Morton, Sixth Ward. Loss $2,000; insurance, $1,600.

1879-LOSSES LIGHT .- For the year 1879 there were 39 alarms; total value of property imperiled, $237,475; total insurance, $81,750; total losses, $18,388.61. March 4, Buchtel College-fire in attic, supposed by sparks from chimney. Loss $5,610. Insured. June 20, brewery of Burkhardt & Gaessler, Sherman street. Loss $3,300. Insured. July 1, Catharine Nehr, dwelling and saloon, corner Exchange and Pearl. Loss $1,100. Insured. November 5, office L. G. Thorp, 118 North Howard street. Loss $2,000. No insurance. November 11, three-story brick drug store of J. A. Byrider, 218 East Market street. Loss $1,419.60. Insured.

1880-LOSSES LIGHTER STILL .- There were 50 alarms in 1880, the total losses, out of an aggregate insurance of $52,125, being but $12,503.70, those of $1,000 and upwards being as follows: March 25, slip-shop of Whitmore, Robinsons & Co., Sixth Ward. $1,300. May 11, factory of G. Eberhard & Co., junction of Exchange and Carroll

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streets, $3,426.44. July 3, livery stable of John Wilson, Sixth Ward, $2,000. August 1, brick brewery of Fred. Horix, North Forge street, $2,454.

1881-LOSSES PROPORTIONATELY LIGHT. - Total number of alarms during the year 52. Losses on $138,465, insurance only $17,430, the more important being as follows: February 17, Con- gregational Church, South High street. Damage to building and fixtures, $4,667. February 22, factory of Baker & McMillen, west of canal near Ash street bridge, $1,300. July 30, frame dwelling house of.F. Horix, North Forge street, struck by lightning; $1,600. September 28, frame planing mill of Weary, Snyder, Wilcox Manu- facturing Company. Damage to building and stock, $2,940.

1882-SLIGHT INCREASE OF LOSSES .- In 1882 there were 45 alarms and out of a total insurance of $156,700 a total loss of $37,- 636.45, apportioned as follows: February 28, frame dwelling house of Rev. T. E. Monroe, 124 South Broadway. Damage $1,300. March 22, planing mill of W. B. Doyle & Co., junction Howard and Main streets, $5,000. August 14, City Mill, West Market street, unoccupied, the property of Gen. Philo Chamberlin, of Cleveland. Alleged loss, $20,000, fully insured and well sold. Rinner & Lapp, coopers, loss on barrels stored in warehouse, $1,120. October 8, pottery of Knapp & Whitsell, east of Fountain street; $6,650.

1883-CALLS NUMEROUS-LOSSES HEAVY .- There were 54 alarms in 1883, with a total loss of $164,155, the principal sufferers being: March 7, the clothing house of Hopfman & Moss. Loss on build- ing $700, contents $16,000. Fully insured. March 25, Carter & Steward, oat meal mill, South Main street, building and machinery $22,750, contents $17,250. Partially insured only. June 4, confec- tionery store of Andrews & Brenizer, 104 South Howard street; loss on contents $1,370. E. W. Howard, on building, $638. Fully insured. December 16, strawboard works of J. F. Seiberling & Co., Sixth Ward, building and machinery, $25,000; contents $8,000, insurance $5,744. December 31, McNeil & Baldwin, Atna Mill, Beach street, building $16,000, contents $49,000, insurance $32,422.

1884-COMPARATIVELY MODERATE .- The total number of calls was 58, and the total losses but $51,448, the more important being as follows: April 24, the Mathews block, 114 to 118 South Howard street, lower story, basement and part of second story, occupied by J. Koch & Co., clothiers. Loss on stock $28,997, building $1,575; fully insured. May 29, Stinehour block, and saloon building of Felix O'Neil, West Market street. Losses on buildings $3,326, contents $2,680; fully insured. June 18, dwelling house Eli Blocker, 176 Balch street, $1,000. August 5, one-story frame build- ings, west side of South Howard street, 170 to 184, east side 171 to 191, occupied by James Derrig as a liquor store, and others. Losses on buildings $3,145, contents $2,013; fully insured.

1885. THE LIGHTEST LOSSES YET. - Though there were 55 alarms in 1885, the total losses were only $19,977, those aggre- gating $1,000 and upwards being as follows: March 9, Mrs. Mary M. Stephens, dwelling house, 505 South Broadway. Loss $1,400, no insurance. April 11, saloon of Otto Waelde, Old Forge. Loss $2,200, insurance, $1,200. April 23, Haushalter & Tissot, jewelers, South Howard street. Loss on stock $2,800, building (Henry

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Motz) $1.080, insured. September 25, J. Park Alexander, Fire Brick Works, South Canal street. Loss on building and contents, $4,200. Insured.

1886. PROLIFIC FIRES-HEAVY LOSSES .- There were 65 alarms in 1886, and an aggregate loss of $680,825, and an aggregate insur- ance of $325,533. The first serious calamity of the year was the destruction of the mammoth oat meal plant of Mr. Ferd. Shumacher, on Mill, Broadway and Summit streets, on the night of March 6. The total loss on the several buildings destroyed, including their contents, over and above insurance, was about $600,000. May 17, Miller Chain Works and Match Factory, Rubber street. Loss $12,000. Insurance light. October 23, Greenhouse of Bert T. Wills, Park Place. Loss on building $1,000; contents $1,500, no insurance. December 31, Empire Harvester Works of J. F. Seiberling & Co., south of Mill street, east of railroad. Boiler explosion and burning of building. Loss on building $10,000, con tents, $3,000, insurance recovered $4,415. William Brown, 17-year- old son of James Brown, 121 Arch street, was killed and several others seriously wounded by the explosion.

1887. INCREASED CALLS-DIMINISHED LOSSES .- Total calls 88 --- total losses $41,918 on an aggregate insurance of $308,855. April 7, dwelling house of John Howe, north of city limits $1,800, insurance paid $950. May 30, Lewis Miller, dwelling house, Oak Place; loss on building $1,200, contents $200. Insured. October 18, two-story frame building, three stores on South Main street, building, G. Eberhard $1,585; insurance $1,280. Loss on contents $1,690, insur- ance paid $790. November 19, cooper-shop of J. F. Seiberling Milling Co., Sixth Ward. Loss $8.000, covered by insurance. November 27, livery stable, George Wulle, corner of North Mail and Tallmadge streets. Loss on building $2,000, contents $2,700 insurance paid $4,000. December 3, Miller Match Works, Rubber street. Loss on building $2,500, contents $4,000; insurance paid $5,000.

1888-SLIGHTLY INCREASED LOSSES .- The alarms for 1888, were 67, with $46,064 losses on $172,697 insurance. May 8, Enterprise' Works of E. F. Pfleuger, Ash street. Loss on building, $170; con- tents $4,530; covered by insurance. May 12, Packing House of Jacob Brodt, 616 to 620 South Main street. Loss on building $1,844.50, contents $1,472.14, fully insured. July 22, Carpet Store, William H. Diehl & Co., 219 and 221 East Market street. Loss on stock $2,700, insurance $2,500; loss on building, M. H. Crumrine, $574, covered by insurance. August 3, Varnish Works of Kubler & Beck, struck by lightning. Loss on building $2,300, insured for $1,300; contents $11,500; insurance $9,300. September 5, Stables of Summit County Agricultural Society, Fountain Park Fair Grounds. Loss to Society $1,000, no insurance. Three valuable horses belonging respectively to A. G. Eves, of Akron, ($2,000) parties in Michigan, ($500) and J. H. Carey, of Bedford, (value not stated) were destroyed in this fire, which, in the terse report of the depart- ment was caused by "whiskey." October 8, enameling house of Baker, McMillen & Co., Ash and Bowery streets, by explosion of oven. Loss on building $2,500, insurance $2,820; contents $4,500, insurance $3,002.80. December 15, stable of Thomas W. McCue, East Mill street; building $950, insurance paid $550; contents, including a valuable horse, $811; insurance paid $488.

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1889. INCREASED CALLS-HEAVIER LOSSES .-- There were 82 alarıns in 1889, with a total loss of $293,173 on a total insurance of $311,717. Losses exceeding $1,000 as follows: January 4, John Wilson's livery stable, Sixth ward. Loss on building $2,181.80, contents, including two horses $3,795.72; insurance paid $5,973.22. February 25, Summit City Oil Company's warehouse, near union depot. Loss $3,000, no insurance. April 7, David P. Kidwell, Carroll street, dwelling. Loss on house $1,200, contents $350, insurance paid $800. May 3, James Christy-tenement block, South Howard street. Loss on building $500, contents $2,200; insurance paid $1,307.12. May'7, Lewis Miller, Oak Place, barn. Loss on building $2,500, contents, $500. May 9, Foltz & Frank, jewelry store, South Howard street. Loss on building $500, on contents $6,100; fully insured. July 22, William Poole, Thornton street, bakery. Loss on building $3,300, contents $1,362; insurance paid $2,625. July 28, J. M. Flickinger, Irvin street, paint shop. Loss on building $150, contents $850; insurance paid $850. September 4, Akron Stone- ware Company, Sixth ward.

Loss on building $850, contents $2,100; insurance paid $2,700. October 29, O'Neil & Dyas' store, South Main street. Loss on building $41,000, contents $177,000; insurance-paid $109,000. J. Whitelaw, Howard street. Loss on building $2,500, contents, J. W. Little, $4,000; insurance paid $3,870; estate, Jacob Allen. Loss on building $582.75, contents, Good & Co., $650; insurance paid $1,194; J. K. Simmons, loss on building $1500, contents $2,000; insurance paid $2,800; Clapsaddle estate, Loss on building $3,250, contents, Tiger Hat Store, $3,250; Lamparter & Pfeiffer, drugs $120.50; T. H. Wolfram, photo- grapher, $3,700; E. B. Cahoon, $750; A. L. Dyke, $285; H. W. Moss, $285; Akron Electric Co., $800; total insurance paid $10,841.83. November 6, Bert T. Wills, Park Place, greenhouse. Loss on building $1,700, contents $2,200; insurance paid $990. December 28, Budd & Lowrey, Sixth ward, machine shop. Loss on building $3,000, contents $3,500; insurance paid $3,388.50.

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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