Editing Akron, Ohio (section)

===1850s–1890s: Summit City===
When the Ohio Women's Rights Convention came to Akron in 1851, Sojourner Truth extemporaneously delivered her speech named "[[Ain't I A Woman?]]", at the Universalist Old Stone Church. In 1870, a local businessman associated with the church, [[John R. Buchtel]], founded Buchtel College, which became the [[University of Akron]] in 1913.

[[Ferdinand Schumacher]] bought a mill in 1856, and the following decade mass-produced [[oat|oat bars]] for the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War]]; these continued to sell well after the war. Akron incorporated as a city in 1865.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Philanthropist [[Lewis Miller (philanthropist)|Lewis Miller]], Walter Blythe, and architect Jacob Snyder designed the widely used [[Akron Plan]], debuting it on Akron's First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny" /> Numerous [[Congregational church|Congregational]], [[Baptist]], and [[Presbyterian]] churches built between the 1870s and World War I use it.<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eYNjS56yx-0C&pg=PA185 |title=When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America|first= Jeanne Halgren|last = Kilde|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2005|isbn = 978-0-19-517972-9|page =185}}</ref><ref name="American Religious Buildings" /> In 1883, a local journalist began the modern toy industry by founding the Akron Toy Company. A year later, the first popular toy was mass-produced [[clay]] [[marbles]] made by Samuel C. Dyke at his shop where Lock 3 Park is now. Other popular inventions include rubber balloons, ducks, dolls, balls, baby buggy bumpers, and little brown jugs. In 1895, the first long-distance electric railway, the [[Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad]], began service.<ref>http://omp.ohiolink.edu/OMP/NewDetails?oid=955184&scrapid=566&format=yourscrap&sort=title&searchstatus=0&count=1&hits=1{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On August 25, 1889, the [[Boston Daily Globe]] referred to Akron with the nickname "Summit City".<ref name="PopikSmoky" /> To help local police, the city deployed the first police car in the U.S. that ran on electricity.<ref name="Police Technology" />