Wooster

Wooster
/woos"teuhr/, n.
1. David, 1711-77, American Revolutionary War general.
2. a city in N Ohio. 19,289.

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      city, seat (1811) of Wayne county, north-central Ohio, U.S., on Killbuck Creek, about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Akron. The site was laid out in 1808 by John Bever, William Henry, and Joseph Larwill and named for the American Revolutionary War general David Wooster. The community claims to have had the first Christmas tree in America, put up (1847) by German immigrant August Imgard.

      The city is the home of the College of Wooster (1866; loosely affiliated with the Presbyterian Church [U.S.A.]) and the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (1971); the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center is just southeast. The Wayne County Historical Society and Museum houses natural-history specimens and pioneer relics and includes restored historic buildings in an open-air exhibit. A manufacturing economy (producing paint equipment, steel tubes, rubber and plastic housewares, cooking utensils, automotive parts, hydraulic pumps, and metallurgical items) prevails. Inc. town, 1817; city, 1869. Pop. (2000) 24,811; (2005 est.) 25,668.

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