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FOSTORIA , a See also:city, partly in See also:Seneca, partly in See also:Hancock, and partly in See also:Wood See also:county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., 35 M. S. by E. of See also:Toledo. Pop. (1890) 7070; (1900) 7730 (584 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 9597, It is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, the New See also:York, See also:Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, the Ohio Central; the See also:Lake See also:Erie & Western, and the Hocking Valley See also:railways, and by two interurban electric lines. The city is situated in an agricultural region, and oil abounds in the vicinity. Among the city's manufactures are See also:glass, See also:flour, planing See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products, See also:brass and See also:iron, carriages, barrels, incandescent lamps, carbons, See also:wire nails and fences, automobile engines and parts, railway torpedoes and See also:muslin underwear. The waterworks are owned and operated by the See also:municipality. In 1832, upon the coming of the first settlers, two towns, See also:Rome and Risdon, were laid out on the site of what is now Fostoria. A See also:bitter rivalry arose between them, but they were finally See also:united under one See also:government, and the city thus formed was named in
See also:honour of See also:Charles W. See also:Foster, whose son Charles Foster (1828—1go4), See also:governor of the See also:state from 188o to 1884 and secretary of the United States See also:treasury from 1891 to 1893, did much to See also:pro-mote its growth. Fostoria was chartered as a city in 1854.
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