Akron, Ohio, USA
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Where is Akron, Ohio, USA? Akron is the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately 39 miles (63 km) south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River.
Akron was co-founded in 1825 when suggested by Paul Williams to Simon Perkins. In 1833, "South" was temporarily added to the name when Eliakim Crosby settled a bordering North Akron. After Summit County formed from portions of Portage, Medina, and Stark counties in 1840, Akron succeeded Cuyahoga Falls as county seat a year later. The Akron School Law of 1847 created the K-12 system. In 1851, Sojourner Truth attended a convention and extemporaneously delivered the original "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. During the Civil War, Ferdinand Schumacher supplied the Union Army with oats produced by his mill along the Ohio Canal. Between the 1870s and World War I, numerous churches across the nation were built using the Akron Plan.Wikipedia
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1839 - Charles Goodyear of Akron developed the process of vulcanizing rubber.
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1888 - Joseph Dickenhof, aged seventy years, was assaulted by highwaymen at Akron, O., on the evening of the 31st ult. and robbed of $7,300 which he carried in a valise.St Joseph Herald
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November 3, 1888
1890 - TORNADO AT AKRON, OHIO. A PATH CUT THROUGH THE CITY AND MANY BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED.Akron, Ohio, May 12. - Saturday was a bad day for this city. A terrible cyclone moved down upon us, ...Read MORE...
1897 - OPERA HOUSE BURNED.Akron, O., July 19. - The Academy of Music block, containing the local opera house, was almost...Read MORE...
1899 - SMOLDERING RUINS. MAIN BUILDING OF BUCHTEL COLLEGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.Akron, O., Dec. 21. - The main building of Buchtel college, including all the laboratories,...Read MORE...
1900 - August 3 - Harvey Firestone starts the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.
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1901 - April 20 - Akron OH established April snow records of 15.6 inches in 24 hours, and 26.6 inches for the month.
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1909 - $1,500,000 FIRE IN AKRON, O. FLAMES DESTROY WHOLE BLOCK - SEVERAL NARROWLY ESCAPE.Akron, O. - May 18. - Fire in the seven-story Hower Power block today practically destroyed the...Read MORE...
1916
Akron, a city, the capital of Summit co., Ohio, and a manufacturing, mineral, and railroad centre,...Read MORE...
Akron, a city, the capital of Summit co., Ohio, and a manufacturing, mineral, and railroad centre,...Read MORE...
1928 - FOUR AKRON BOYS KILLED BY BLAST. FIRED DRUM OF BENZINE UNDER SHED. THREE BROTHERS AND PLAYMATE DIE AND FIFTH OF GROUP MAY LIVE ALTHOUGH BADLY BURNED.Akron, April 30 - Four boys, three of them brothers, were killed and a fifth was seriously injured...Read MORE...
1935 - June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.www.wikipedia.org
June 10, 1935
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Edward J. ANDERSON
(12 October 1890, Akron, Ohio, USA - 13 January 1911, Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
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Philip H. GILL
(1854, Akron, Ohio, USA - 6 August 1877, Granville, Massachusetts, USA)
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Helen SLABAUGH
(7 June 1889, Akron, Ohio, USA - 9 December 1904, )
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