German-American Club (Mutual
Aid Society) Collection
The online Special Collections inventory
of Akron-Summit
County Public Library donated by Ronald H.
Gangle in 1998.It consists of 2
storage boxes containing ledger books, journals
and records of the German-American Club from
1917 to 1946. Many of these items are financial
records of the club, including income and
disbursements, as well as membership records
with names and addresses. Some of the records
are in German. There are also minute books of
their meetings.
I found the follow two other items very
interesting:
1) Box #1 contains several ledgers
from 1927 - 1930: containing lists of
names and addresses of people who paid for
stock of the GH Home Co. Does anyone know
about know about this company, and why the
members of this club would be purchasing
this stock through the club?
2) Box #2 contains an
Akron
Germania Kalendar, 1916 in German -- wow!
what a find!! Also a photocopy of a
photograph of the Club.
I wonder if any of our Akronite
subscribers have ever been to the library to
view the contents of these boxes? My
great-grandparents lived in the
Akron area
(Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls & Ellet) and I know
they belonged to this club, which I believe was
at 834 Grand St.,
Akron, OH. I think it has now been
demolished, according to a record found on the
internet.
Does anybody know about these holdings, or have
more information on this club or about Ronald
Gangle, the man who donated the records to the
library?
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