Fostoria
a city of Ohio in Seneca and Hancock counties, and near the boundary line of Wood county. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Lake Erie and Western, the Hocking Valley, the Lake Shore Electric, the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, and the Toledo and Ohio Central railroads. It is an important industrial community and has lime kilns, manufactures of glass, automobiles, lumber, etc. In the neighborhood are extensive oil fields. The city was founded by the father of Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio and Secretary of the United States Treasury in 1891- 1893. Pop. (1910) 9,597; (1920) 9,987.