Samuel Alanson Lane, 1815 - 1905. Akron, Ohio History

Samuel Alanson Lane, 1815 - 1905. Akron, Ohio History

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Samuel Alanson Lane, 1815 ~ 1905.

Samuel A. Lane was Akron, Ohio sheriff from 1856 until 1861. He went on to serve as the editor of the Summit County Beacon and Daily Beacon newspapers from 1861 until 1875.

He then returned to politics and became sheriff again from 1876 until 1878. He also served as Akron mayor, 1881 - 1882. He had also started a semi-monthly reform newspaper called the Buzzard.

He took a trip to California where he painted and sold goods at auctions. Then he returned to Akron and wrote the 1200-page "Fifty Years and Over, Akron and Summit County" in 1892.

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Biography of Samuel Alanson Lane ~

FROM: Villanova Falvey Library. Vliianova University

Born on the 15th day of June in the year of 1815, Samuel Alanson Lane would become yet another witness to the scientific and technological progress and revolutionary social change that occurred in the 19th century. Born and raised in Suffield, Conn, Lane grew up on a farm and was raised around machinery and tools while his father, Comfort Lane (b. 1783), was an inventor of a version of the cotton gin, aptly named the Suffield Cotton Gin in 1826. In 1826, with the sudden death of his father, S. A. Lane was forced to abandon his school house studies to help provide for his family by working on nearby farms. It was not until 1831, that S. A. Lane left his home in Suffield to go off and work for a couple of store owners in Massachusetts followed by a book canvassing job in the South from 1833-1835. From January in 1835 until May of the same year, Lane travels around the U.S., looking for work in numerous cities including, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland until finally settling in what would become his hometown, Akron, Ohio on June 29, 1835.

Up until this time, Lane worked various jobs, including working for a paper called the Southern Spy in Georgia, acting briefly for a play in Ohio, freelancing as a house and sign painter, and even working as a teacher for School District No. 7 in Portage Township, OH. His most notable careers during his lifetime would be: newspaper journalist and editor for The Akron Buzzard and The Akron Daily Beacon, Sheriff of Summit County (1856-1860, 1878-1881), Mayor of Akron (1881-1883) and historian and co-author of the history book entitled, “Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County”. Lane was a part of the mass emigration West during the California Gold Rush in 1849, resulting in his being away for over 2 years from his loving family in search of fortune, though he did not make mining his career.

In his personal life, Lane was a family man, marrying his wife, Paulina Potter November 11, 1838 and remaining faithful and loving to her until her untimely death from cancer July 2, 1871. With Paulina, Lane had eight children, four of them surviving until his later years, when he began his writing of his handwritten auto-biography in the year 1879. These children were: Sarah Maria (1839-1841), Julius Sherman (b. 1841), Henry Lorenzo (1843-1849), William Alanson (1845-1849), Charles Walter (1848-1849), Frederick Alanson (b. 1849), Arthur Malcolm (b. 1855), and Carrie Maria (1858-1892). Lane cherished his family and wrote many entries in his diary about the closeness he and his kin had with one another and their many reunions throughout the years, until his death on June 14, 1905, just fifteen days before his 90th birthday.

https://exhibits.library.villanova.edu/lane/bio

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Lane as a young man.

Samuel A. Lane. 1881.

Samuel A. Lane, (seated, center, with white beard), poses in 1881 with Akron, Ohio's complete police force. 12-men.

Lane's signature.

Summit County Beacon, Akron, Ohio, December 28, 1865, Thurs.. Page-2

Image of Lane's book

Portraits of S.A. Lane throughout his life, from his book, 'Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County.'

The Lane family plot at Glendale Cemetery in Akron, Ohio.

The large rock that acts as the family plot's main monument is rumored to be a meteor that fell and was found.

The back side of the monument.

The Lane Family Graves ~

The Lane Family Graves ~

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FROM THE AKRON CITY DIRECTORIES:

1859

Samuel A. Lane, sheriff, office - Court House, home - ss Medina Road, by West & Maple Sts.

1868

S.A. Lane, editor - Beacon, home - 509 W. Market St.

1875 DIRECTORY same as 1868.

1881

Samuel A. Lane, City Mayor, office - City Armory Building, S. Main St., home - 510 W. Market St.

1885

Samuel A. Lane, home - 510 W. Market St.

1890

Samuel A. Lane, author & publisher - History of Summit County, home - 510 W. Market St.

1895

Samuel A. Lane, (Emeline), historian, office & home - 510 W. Market St.

1900 DIRECTORY same as 1895.

1905

Samuel A. Lane, (Emeline), home - 212 W. Market St.

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