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Drawing by Michael Cohill, from composite historic
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Julius A. Sumner, the most picturesque character of early Akron, with a
long white beard and hair hanging down over his shoulders, was born in
Vermont in 1802. In 1818, seven years before Akron was started, he came
with his father to Middlebury. In the middle forties he was proprietor of
the Ohio Exchange, then the leading hotel in Akron, located on the
southwest corner of Market and Main streets. Later Mr. Sumner built the
Sumner Hotel and Opera House, corner North Howard and Tallmadge streets,
and the Empire House on present site of Portage Hotel. |
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