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Akron Gospel Hall is an open brethren assembly in Akron, Summit Co., [[Ohio]] that may date dates back to prior to 19041898. That year, there The meeting was an assembly meeting at 303 Mills Ave. Akron is not listed excluded in a 1922 the first (open brethren) AAB, so the current one may have been separate for North America from the 1904 one. However1922, but an ''Our Record'' from March 1932 reports a sister Mrs. Harley Welch that had "gone home" in Akron, and recorded that she had been "in fellowship here about thirteen years" which puts the assembly as early as 1919. Then discovered that John Soper was saved and associated with this assembly from 1898-1946, which lends credence to this and the 1904 one potentially being the sameas per his tribute in Assembly Annals.
[https://omeka.religiousecologies.org/files/original/320dbd82fd8138474cfbd38edf3d529d17138393.jpg 1926 USCoRB] indicated that there were 60 in fellowship (30 men, 30 women) including 5 S.S. teachers presiding over 45 children (for a total of 105). The Hall was valued at $6,000 with no debt (and with $644 in annual expenses), and $1,395 was additionally spent towards the Lord's work in 1926.