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FINDLAY

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 355 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FINDLAY , a city and the county-seat of Hancock county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., on
Blanchard
 's
Fork
  of the Auglaize river, about 42 M. S. by W. of Toledo. 'Pop. (189o) 18,5J3; (1900) 17,613, (1051 foreign-born) ; (191o) 14,858. It is served by the
Cleveland
 , Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Lake
Erie
  & Western, and the
Ohio
  Central railways, and by three interurban electric railways. Findlay lies about 78o ft. above sea-level on gently
rolling
  ground. The city is the seat of Findlay College (co-educational), an institution of the
Church
  of God, chartered in 1882 and opened in 1886; it has collegiate, preparatory, normal, commercial and theological departments, a school of expression, and a conservatory of music, and in 1907 had 588 students, the
majority
  of whom were in the conservatory of music. Findlay is the centre of the Ohio natural gas and oil region, and lime and building stone
abound in the vicinity. Among manufactures are refined petroleum, flour and grist-mill products, glass, boilers, bricks, tile, pottery, bridges, ditching machines, carriages and furniture. The
total
  value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,925,309, an increase of ?3.6 % since 1900. The municipality owns and operates the water-works. Findlay was laid out as a town in 1821, was incorporated as a
village
  in 1838, and was chartered as a city in 189o. The city was named in honour of Colonel James Findlay (c. 177 1835), who built a fort here during the war of 1812; he served in this war under General William Hull, and from 1825 to 1833 was a Democratic representative in Congress.


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