Akron, a city and the capital of Summit county, Ohio, 36 m. S. of Cleveland, at the junction of the Ohio and Erie and Ohio and Pennsylvania canals, and at the intersection of the Atlantic and Great Western and the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon, and Delaware railways; pop. in 1860, 3,477; in 1870, 10,006. The canals and the Little Cuyahoga river furnish ample water power for numerous mills, factories, and other mechanical establishments. The chief articles of manufacture are flour and woollen goods. There is also a steam engine factory, a blast furnace, a mineral paint mill, a card manufactory, and an extensive stove manufactory. The town is 400 feet above the lake, being the most elevated ground on the line of the canal between Lake Erie and the Ohio river. In the vicinity of the town immense beds of Ohio mineral fire-proof paint are found, and exported to every part of the country. Akron was first settled in 1825.