CAMBRIDGE  , a

city and the county-seat of Guernsey county, Ohio, U.S.A., on Wills Creek, about 75 M . E. by N. of Columbus . Pop . (1890) 4361; (1900) 8241, of whom 407 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 11,327 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania railways, and is connected by an electric line with Byesville (pop. in 1910, 3156), about 7 M . S . Cambridge is built on a hill about 80o ft. above sea-level . There is a public library . Coal, oil, natural gas, clay and iron are found in the vicinity, and among the city's manufactures are iron, steel, glass, furniture and pottery . The value of its factory products in 1905 was $2,440,917 . The municipality owns and operates the water-works . Cambridge was first settled in 1798 by emigrants from the island of Guernsey (whence the name of the county); was laid out as a town in '8o6; was incorporated as a village in 1837; and was chartered as a city in 1893 .