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The History of Akron & Summit County collects, preserves, and
digitalizes various media in order to present the history of
Summit County, Ohio. Funded and organized by Jeri Holland,
Michael Cohill, and the
Akron History Exhibit,
this Digital Archive will contribute to the on-going effort by
historians and archivists to record and preserve the record of
Summit County by: collecting personal accounts, collecting and
archiving documents and digital images, organizing and
annotating the most important web-based resources, and
developing materials to contextualize and teach about historic
events. Our goal is to create a permanent record of the events
of the past 200+ years. In the process, we hope to foster some
positive legacies of our ancestors by allowing people to tell
their stories, making those stories available to a wide
audience, providing historical context for understanding events
and their consequences, and help both children and adult
researchers improve their knowledge and studies based on this
project. The History of Akron & Summit County project formally
began in March 2006, and will continue adding media and
information each month. Material will be added more frequently
as we receive items from past and present residents,
organizations, and local towns/cities.
Questions? Please feel free to contact us
HARRY C. EICHENLAUB, -- whose full length
portrait, in the uniform of a government letter carrier, is one of Uncle Sam's
highly popular and wide-awake postal messengers in Akron. He is a son of Alois
and Catharine (Waelde) Eichenlaub, was born in Cleveland Feb. 14, 1859, removing
with his parents to Akron about 1864, his father being Akron's pioneer
manufacturing confectioner, prosecuting that business on Howard street, until
within a few months of his death, March 4, 1873. Harry was educated in Akron
public schools; striking out early for himself, for a time clerked in saddlery
hardware store of George S. Scott, 102 North Howard street; later as key clerk
at Sherman House, Chicago, and still later three years in the clothing store of
Hoffman & Moss in Akron. In the Fall of 1886, Postmaster William C. Allen placed
him on his staff of letter carriers, the duties of which position he so
faithfully discharged that Mr. Allen's successor, Postmaster William B. Gamble,
re-appointed him thereto in 1891, Harry had hosts of warm personal friends among
the local members of both political parties. He was also a member of one of
Akron's most popular business and social institutions-The "Citizens' Club."
Lane, S. A. Mail Carrier. Fifty Years and Over of Akron
and Summit County. Akron, 1892. p327.
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