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1850 - 1899
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| 1850 |
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Population
3,266 |
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Millard
Fillmore is President
Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter |
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| 1851 |
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Sojourner Truth
addresses a women's rights convention meeting in the Old Stone Church and makes what has
become known as her Ain't I a Woman? speech |
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| 1852 |
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The first train
arrives in Akron |
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| 1870 |
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Population
10,006. |
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John R. Buchtel
founded Buchtel College, which would become the University of Akron |
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Ulysses
S. Grant is President
The territory of Utah give full suffrage to women |
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| 1871 |
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Dr. Benjamin
Franklin Goodrich moves his rubber factory from Melrose, New York |
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Hower House is built in 1871 by
John Henry Hower, an organizer of Excelsior Mower and Reaper Co. in Doylestown and a
principal in Turner Oatmeal Mill. (more..) |
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| 1876 |
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Roetzel & Andress, Akron's oldest law
firm, is founded. |
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| 1879 |
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August 15,
Akron Telephonic Exchange opens, providing Akron's first 60 customers with telephone
service. |
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| 1881 |
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A health department is developed in 1881,
with Dr. A.A. Kohler as its first Health Officer. |
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| 1883 |
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The Herdic,
Akron's first trolley, begins running along Howard and Main Streets. |
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| 1886 |
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Thomas Edison marries Mina Miller in Akron on
February 24th. |
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| 1890 |
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Population
27,601. |
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Benjamin
Harrison is President
Yosemite Park is created by Act of Congress |
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| 1892 |
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Dr. Samuel
Bartges' converted homestead becomes Akron City Hospital. |
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| 1898 |
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Akron City Council passes an Ordinance creating the Akron Police Department, which did away
with the governing Marshal system. |
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J.C. Steese
starts the Akron
Lamp Company (1898-1949). The company begins in a single room on High Street making 8
lamps per day. By 1935, the company (by now called the Akron Lamp &
Manufacturing Company) was producing 200,000 "Diamond" brand lamps, lanterns,
stoves and irons per day. |
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