SUMMIT COUNTY JAIL, AKRON, OHIO

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Fully aware of our inability to furnish a perfect histopy from meager public documents, inaccurate private correspondence and numberless conflicting traditions, we make no pretension of having prepared a work devoid of blemish. Through the courtesy and the generous assistance met with everywhere, we have been enabled to rescue from oblivion the greater portion of important events that have transpired in Summit County in past years. We feel assured that all thoughtful people in the county, at present and in future, will recognize and appreciate the importance of the undertaking, and the great public benefit that has been accomplished. It will be observed that a dry statement of fact has been avoided; and that the rich romance of border incident has been woven in with statistical details, thus forming an attractive and graphic narrative, and lending beauty to the mechanical execution of the volume, and additional value to it as a work for perusal We claim superior excellence in our manner of collecting material; in the division of the subject matter into distinct and appropriate chapters; in giving a separate chapter to every town, township and important subject, and in the systematic arrangement of the individual chapters. While we acknowledge the existence of unavoidable errors, we claim to have prepared a work fully up to the standard of our promises. and as accurate and comprehensive as could be expected under the circumstances. THE PUBLISHERS. May, 1881. CONTENTS. PART II. HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY.                                                                                  PAGE CHAPTER I.—Introductory—Physical Features—Geological      Structure—The Different Shales—Coal Measures—Agri-      culture and Agricultural Societies-Statistics,etc.............................181 CHAPTER II—Prehistoric Races—Traces and Relics of the      Mound Builders—The Indian Tribes—Their Occupa-      tion of Summit County—Sketches of Them—The Border Wars...............207 CHAPTER III.—Settlement and Organization of the County—      Its Civil Divisions—The Early Judiciary—County Build-      ings—Their Cost and Character—Officials, etc.........................226 CHAPTER IV.—War Record—Our Struggle for Independence      -1812—The Mexican War—Our Late Civil War—      Sketches of Regiments—Aid Societies—Monuments, etc...................249 CHAPTER V.—Religious—The Gospel on the Frontier—A      Tax for its Support—Educational—School Statistics—The      County Press—Railroads, Canals, etc .......................................271 CHAPTER VI—The Professions—Early Lawyers—Summit      County Bar—The Lawyers of the Present—Medical—      Pioneer Doctors—Early Practice—The Modern Physicians ................301 CHAPTER VII.—Portage Township—Descriptive and Topo-      graphical—Coming of the Pioneers—Their Primitive      Life—Development of Resources—Schools, Churches, etc. 321 CHAPTER VIII.—City of Akron—Original Plat—Its Growth      as a Village—An Incorporated City—Municipal Govern-      ment—Statistics—Secret and Other Societies ............................330 CHAPTER IX.—City of Akron—Its Manufacturing Interests      —Their Growth and Development—The Buckeye Reaper      -Potteries—Mills—Other establishments...................................344 CHAPTER X.—City of Akron—Religious History—Early      Christianity and Pioneer Preachers—Advancement of      the Gospel—Churches of the Present Day—Sabbath Schools, etc ............366 CHAPTER XI.—City of Akron—Formation of the Public      Schools—Akron School Law—Present Educational Facili-      ties—Sketch of Buchtel College................................................381 CHAPTER XII.—Town of Middlebury—Its Settlement—Early      Glory and Importance—Water Power—Growth of Manu-      facturing Industries—Present Business.........................................399 CHAPTER XIII.—Hudson Township—Its Early History-      Topograpy—The Settlement by the Whites—Pioneer In-      cidents—Growth and Development of Industries.................................. 409 CHAPTER XIV.—Hodson Township—Early Society—Organiza-       tion—The Village of Hudson Laid Out—Its Business and Growth—Religious and Educational ............................................................................426 CHAPTER XV.—Hudson Village—Educational Institutions-      Location of College—Questions of Difference—Officers and      Faculty—Library, Preparatory School, etc........................................446 vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER XVI.—Cuyahoga Falls—Settlement by Whites—      Early History—Grottoes, Caverns and Ravines—Organiza-      Tion as a Township—Its Officers, etc., etc.......................................466 CHAPTER XVII—Cuyahoga Falls—Growth and Prosperity—      Manufacturing Interests—Incorporation—Schools and      Teachers—Religions—Sketches of the Churches ...............................478 CHAPTER XVIII.—Northampton Township—Descriptive—      Early History and Settlement—Development of Re-      sources—Early Schools—Statistics—Religious—Different churches .............................................................................................................497 CHAPTER XIX—Stow Township—Description and Topo-      graphy—The Whites—Improvement and Development—      Villages—Religious—Educational, etc .........................................511 CHAPTER XX—Coventry Township—Topographical—Boun      aries—Lakes—The Palefaces—Their Life in the Wilder-      ness—Industries—Schools and Churches ........................................521 CHAPTER XXI —Boston Township—Its Ownership—General      Description—Occupancy of the Whites—Unlawful Opera-      tions—Towns—Educational, etc ................................................532 CHAPTER XXII—Springfield Township—General Description      —Wealth and Resources—Coal Mines—The Palefaces—      Pioneer Industries—Schools and Teachers—Religious............................545 CHAPTER XXIII.—Tallmadge Township—Physical Features      —Early History—The Whites—Pioneer Vicissitudes—      Growth and Prosperity—Schools, Churches, eta .....................................,552 CHAPTER XXIV.—Northfield Township—Its Physical Geo-     graphy—Settlement by the Whites—Growth and Im- provement—Statistical—Religious—Villages ...........................................................567 CHAPTER XXV.—Norton Township—Descriptive and Topo-      graphical—White Settlement—Pioneer Industries—Ad-      vancement in Civilization—Schools and Teachers—      Churches—The Villages. etc.........................................................572 CHAPTER XXVI.—Green Township—Physical Features—      Original Boundaries—Pioneer Occupancy—The Germans      Growth and Development—Villages—Churches and Schools.........................593 CHAPTER XXVII—Richfield Township—General Description      —Coming of the Whites—Growth and Prosperity—Pio-      neer Industries—Schools and Teachers—Christianity,      e.........................................................................................608 CHAPTER XXVIII.—Bath Township—Boundaries and Topo-      graphy—White Settlement—Wealth and Prosperity—      Pioneer Achievements—Churches and Preachers—Schools, etc.....................617 CHAPTER XXIX.—Franklin Township—Topographical—      Early History—Coming of the Pioneers—Early Improve-      ments and Industries—Villages—Schools, Churches, etc... .....................627 CHAPTER XXX —Copley Township—Descriptive and Topo-      graphical—The White Settlement--Early Industries—      Their Growth and Development—Educational and Re-      ligious...................................................................................639 CHAPTER XXXI.—Twinsburg Township—Description and     Early Features—The Coming of the Whites—Pioneer Improvements—Anecdotes—Educational and Religious.... .....................................................649 PART III. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. PAGE. Akron, City of ........................................................................................................661 Bath Township.........................................................................................................1014 Boston Township ......................................................................................................891 Copley Township ......................................................................................................1026 Coventry Township......................................................................................................876 Cuyahoga Falls Township................................................................................................841 Franklin Township.....................................................................................................1026 Green Township ........................................................................................................980 Hudson Township........................................................................................................823 Northampton Township.................................................................................................. 853 Northfield Township....................................................................................................933 Norton Township....................................................................................................... 963 Portage Township.......................................................................................................806 Richfield Township.....................................................................................................997 Springfield Township ..................................................................................................908 Stow Township..........................................................................................................863 Tallmadge Township ....................................................................................................920 Twinsburg Township ...................................................................................................1039 ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAITS. PAGE Ailing, Ethan (Biography on page 1039)................................................................................648 Bechtel, John ........................................................................................................440 Bosworth, Delos (Biography on page 1029) .............................................................................614 Burgess, Joseph (Biography on page 965) ..............................................................................632 Brewster, Alexander (Biography on page 682)...........................................................................504 Brown, C. W. (Biography on page 679) .................................................................................488 Crotzer, William F. (Biography on page 910) ..........................................................................568 Cotter, A. L. (Biography on page 687) ................................................................................524 Conger, A. L. (Biography on page 695) ................................................................................424 Crouse, G. W. (Biography on page 694) ................................................................................472 Fmmitt, William (Biography on page 699) ..............................................................................544 Hill, John (Biography on page 969) ...................................................................................554 Hine, Daniel (Biography on page 924)..................................................................................600 Lane, S. A. (Biography on page 728) ..................................................................................228 Miller, George (Biography on page 815) ...............................................................................320 Miller, Lewis (Biography on page 7391 ................................................................................536 Quigley, Martin (Biography on page 760)...............................................................................408 Sumner, I. (Biography on page 767) ...................................................................................260 Sumner, J. A. (Biography on page 767) ................................................................................456 Sumner, Charles (Biography on page 769) ..............................................................................292 Stone, N. B. (Biography on page 766) .................................................................................376 Schumacher, Ferd. (Biography on page 774..............................................................................344 Taplin, J. B. (Biography on page 784) ................................................................................392 Voris, A. C. (Biography on page 786) .................................................................................360 Wright, Amos (Biography on page 932)..................................................................................552 VIEWS. Summit County Court House ...........................................................................................180