The Attraction to
Akron-Canton
Coming soon . . .
Local Genealogical Research Aids
Akron-Canton,
Summit County
& Immigration
Records
St. Bernard German Catholic Church
– Akron’s first German church
The construction
of the Ohio and Erie Canal employed many Irish
immigrants to the Akron area, and as a result,
the only Catholic Church in Akron was
predominantly Irish. In the fall of 1861 a
meeting of 46 of Akron’s German-American
Catholics met for the purpose of establishing a
German Catholic Parish and formed the St.
Peter’s Bau Verein Society (Bau Verein is
German for Building Association). The
group began with a meager $2.75 in their
building fund. [Complete
Story]
The German
Family Society was founded in 1955 at St.
Bernard’s Catholic church by Danubeswabian
(Folk-German), German and Austrian immigrants.
In the 1960’s, we moved to the German American
Club in Akron, then in 1973 to our present
location (Donau Park) in Brimfield Twp.
[Complete
Story]
Donauschwaben Associations
Deutsche
Familienverein Akron, OH / German Family Society
of Akron, OH. (GFS)
http://home.neo.rr.com/stpauliguy
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.
[Complete
Story]
Deutscher Familiernverein
Akron, Uniontown OH was
among the list of the clubs that were
listed as members of the North
American Federation of German Folk Dance
Groups from 1994 and a partial list
from 1997.
Settling Down or
Moving On
Coming soon . . .
Population:
1900
42728
1910 69067
1920 208435
1930 255040
1940 244791
1950 274605
1960 290351
1970 275425
1980 237177
1990 223019 |
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