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WOOSTER

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 820 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WOOSTER , a city and the county-seat of Wayne county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., on Killbuck Creek, about 50 M. S. by W. of
Cleveland
 . Pop. (1900) 6063 (407
foreign
 -
born
 ); (1910) 6136. Wooster is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  and the
Pennsylvania
 '
railways
 . It is the seat of the university of Wooster (co-educational; Presbyterian; founded in 1866 and opened in 1870), which in 1909 had 37 instructors and 1547 students. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station is in the city, which also has various manufactures. Wooster was laid out in ,8o8, was incorporated as a town in 1817, and became a city of the second class in 1869. It was named in honour of General
David
  Wooster (1710-1777), who was killed in the War of Independence.


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