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Contents
A sketch of the shoe industry -- Surrounding farms -- Akron's cigar industry -- Martin's Prezel Bakery -- Showalter's Meats -- Sports -- Borough schools -- Mennonite Central Committee -- The Electric Company -- Akron tinsmiths -- Railroad service to Akron Borough -- Trolley service to Akron -- Restaurants -- History of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church -- Zion Lutheran Church -- Grace Evangelical Congregational Church -- Akron Church of the Brethren -- Akron United Zion Church -- Akron Mennonite Church -- The Bible Baptist Church -- Pilgrims Mennonite Church -- The New Joy Brethren in Christ Church.
Barnes' directory of Lancaster County : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory : also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educational and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c., 1875-76
Boyd's Central Pennsylvania business directory and gazetteer, : embracing the counties of Berks, Chester, Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Montgomery, Northumberland, Montour, Schuylkill, on the line of the philadelphia & Ready Rail Road, its branches, Penna. Schuylkill Valley Rail Roat, Etc
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography v. 141, no. 2
Summary
"Christopher Demuth's early years in the Moravian community of Bethlehem, which included the traumatic transition from its "General Economy," shaped and helped prepare him for a new career in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Trained in carpentry and millwork, Demuth went on to be the most successful tobacconist in Lancaster, specializing in snuff, which he sold throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. His extensive operation demonstrates Lancaster's importance as a production and distribution node, as well as the significant role that Pennsylvania tobacconists played in the state and national economy decades before tobacco was grown commercially in the states." [abstract]
