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AKRON , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Summit county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Little Cuyahoga See also:river, about 35 M. S. by E. of See also:Cleveland. Pop. (1890) 27,601; (1900) 42,728, of whom 7127 were See also:foreign-See also:born (3227 being See also:German, 1104 See also:English, and 641 Irish) ; (191o) 69,067. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, the See also:Erie, the See also:Northern Ohio, and the Cleveland, Akron & See also:Columbus See also:railways, by inter-See also:urban electric lines and by the Ohio See also:Canal. The city is situated in a region abounding in lakes, springs and hills; it is about woo ft. above See also:sea-level, whence its name (from Gr. &Kpov, height); and attracts many summer visitors. It is the seat of Buchtel See also:College (co-educational; non-sectarian), which was founded by the Ohio Universalist See also:Convention in 187o, was opened in 1872, and was named in See also:honour of its most liberal benefactor, See also:John R. Buchtel (1822-1892), a successful business See also:man who did much to promote the See also:industrial development of Akron. Buchtel College provides three courses leading to the degrees of A.B., Ph.B. and S.B.; it has a school of See also:music, a school of See also:art and an See also:academy; in 19o8 there were 267 students. See also:Coal is See also:mined in the neighbourhood. The river furnishes considerable See also:water-See also:power; and among the city's most important manufactures are See also:rubber and elastic goods (value, 1905, $13,396,974; 83.9 % of the See also:total of this See also:industry in the See also:state and 21.3 % of the total for the See also:United States, Akron ranking first among the cities of the See also:country in this industry), See also:printing and See also:publishing product (value, 1905, $2,834,639), foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop product (value, 1905, $2,367,764), and pottery, terra-See also:cotta and See also:fire-See also:clay (value, 1905, $1,718,033; nearly twice the value of the output in 1900, Akron ranking See also:fourth among the cities of the United States in this industry in 1go5). Other important manufactures are See also:food preparations (especially of oats) and See also:flour and grist See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products. The value of the total manufactured products (under the " factory " See also:system) in 1905 was $34,004,243, an increase in five years of 54.5%. Akron was settled about 1825, was incorporated as a See also:village in 1836, was made the county-seat in 1842, and in 1865 was chartered as a city.
See S. A. See also:Lane, Fifty Years and over of Akron and Summit County (Akron, 1892).
AK-SHEHR (anc. Philomelion), a See also:town in See also:Asia See also:Minor, in the See also:Konia vilayet, situated at the edge of a fertile See also:plain, on the See also:north See also:side of the See also:Sultan Dagh. Philomelion was probably a Pergamenian See also:foundation on the See also:great Graeco-See also:Roman See also:highway from
See also:Ephesus to the See also:east, and to its townsmen the Smyrniotes wrote the See also:letter that describes the martyrdom of See also:Polycarp. See also:Cicero, on his way to See also:Cilicia, dated some of his extant See also:correspondence there; and the See also:place played a considerable See also:part in the frontier See also:wars between the See also:Byzantine emperors and the sultanate of See also:Rum. It became an important Seljuk town, and See also:late in the 14th See also:century passed into See also:Ottoman hands. There Bayezid Yilderim is said by See also:Ali of See also:Yezd to have died after his defeat at See also:Angora. The place still enjoys much repute among See also:Turks, as the See also:burial-place of Nur-ed-din Khoja. The town has a station on the Anatolian railway, about 6o rn. from Afium-Kara-See also:Hissar and 10o m. from Konia.
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