This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...of Tallmadge. Although its founder became deeply beloved throughout the entire region, he failed to carry through his enterprise in a financial sense. Finally finding himself unable to meet the payments upon the purchase, and being unable to compromise with his business-like creditors in the east, he left Tallmadge ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...of Tallmadge. Although its founder became deeply beloved throughout the entire region, he failed to carry through his enterprise in a financial sense. Finally finding himself unable to meet the payments upon the purchase, and being unable to compromise with his business-like creditors in the east, he left Tallmadge permanently in May, 1812, and died at Hartford, Connecticut, August 17, 1817. a man broken both in body and spirit. First Publ1c L1brary 1n County. Tallmadge township was organized as a separate political territory in November, 1812, Elizur Wright and Nathaniel Chapman being elected its first clerk and justice of the peace, From the very first the community showed the intellectual impress of its founder. The village of Tallmadge opened the first public library in Summit county in 1813, and it is still in existence as a flourishing institution. In 1816 Tallmadge Academy was incorporated and opened to students, among its teachers being Hon. Sidney Edgerton, a man of national reputation, whose legal and public life was closely connected with the history of Akron. The township has also shown extensive manufacturing activities, notably in the line of carriage making. This line of industry was established by Amos Avery and William C. Oviatt in 1827, and among well known manufacturers may be mentioned the late Gen. L. V. Bierce, a pioneer citizen of Akron. Tallmadge was further honored by his residence there, in his younger years, of the distinguished William H. Upson, who reside;l with his parents in this locality until he was about fifteen years of age and graduated from the Western Reserve College before he was nineteen. His later career as a distinguished member of the Ohio supreme court and of the National House of Representatives is nar rated more...
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