http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;smode%3Dsimple;subject%3DAkron%20(Ohio)%20--%20Surveys.;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;smode=simple;subject=Akron (Ohio) -- Surveys.;subject-join=exact Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3376.xml Paul Bros. was a surveying, engineering and mining firm in Akron, Ohio, which was the chief surveying entity of a five-county area in the vicinity of Summit County, Ohio, for approximately 100 years. Hosea Paul (1809-1870), who came to Ohio in 1834, founded the firm and was Summit County surveyor from 1857-1870. His son Robert became county surveyor when his father died, and Robert's son Edward W. also belonged to the firm. Hosea Jr., county auditor in 1874 and also deputy county surveyor, directed the affairs of the firm before moving to Cleveland where he was Cuyahoga County recorder from 1912-1921. Other members of the firm were also children of Hosea Paul, including George, T. Dwight, Harrison D., and Edward J. The firm was also known as H. Paul & Co. The collection consists of field notes, large and small maps, property drawings, pages of mathematical computations to determine acreage, miscellaneous notes and comments, metes and bounds descriptions prepared for county records, allotment maps, affidavi... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3376.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4759.xml Melancthon Woolsey Welles came to Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1819 to study law at the firm of Kelley and Cowles. His sister, Mary Seymour Welles, had married prominent Clevelander Alfred Kelley in 1817. Welles was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1823. He then moved to Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, and was appointed the first prosecuting attorney for that county in 1824. In 1826, Welles became the first toll collector at Akron, Ohio, on the Ohio and Erie Canal. While in Akron, he also served as the first postmaster, was a justice of the peace, and practiced law. Welles was a member of the Portage County Temperance Society, an incorporator of the Akron Lyceum and Library Association, and an agent for the Ohio State Temperance Society. He returned to Elyria in 1835 to practice law. In 1837, Welles moved to Cleveland and entered into a law partnership with Edward Wade and Edward Hamlin. He continued his involvement with temperance and antislavery groups while living in Cleveland. In 1841, he returned to Elyria, continuing h... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4759.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT