Ashtabula
a city in Ashtabula co., O., on Lake Erie, and several important railroads; 55 miles N. E. of Cleveland.
It is in an agricultural and dairy region, and has an excellent harbor where the river of the same name enters the lake.
The city is noteworthy for the facts that it receives the largest amount of iron ore of any port in the United States, and the amount of its shipment of the same is surpassed by few on the Great Lakes.
Its extensive railroad and lake communications give it a special importance in the industrial world, as it stands between the great coal and iron mining regions and the extensive manufacturing districts of Pennsylvania. There are numerous industrial establishments and a large dry dock and ship-building plant.
Pop. (1910) 18,266; (1920) 22,082.
ASHTORETH (ash'tō-ret), ASTA- ROTH or ASTARTE, a goddess worshipped by the Jews in times when idolatry prevailed; the principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity. Ashtoreth is the Astarte of the Greeks and Romans, and is identified by ancient writers with the goddess Venus (Aphrodite). She is probably the same as the Isis of the Egyptians, and closely connected with the Asherah of Scripture; Ashtoreth being, according to Berthau, the name of the goddess, and Asherah the name of her image or symbol. In Scripture, she is almost always joined with Baal, and is called god, Scripture having no particular word for expressing goddess. She was the goddess of the moon; her temples generally accompanied those of the sun; while bloody sacrifices or human victims were offered to Baal, bread, liquors, and perfumes were presented to Astarte.
ASIA and took special courses in law and political economy at the University of Michigan. He began the practice of law in Arizona in 1897. In the same year he was a member of the Arizona Legislature and was successfully re-elected, serving as speaker in 1898. He was district attorney of Coconino co., Arizona in 1905-1906 and again in 1907- 1908, and was elected United States Senator in 1913 and re-elected in 1917.