DEFIANCE  , a

city and the county seat of Defiance county, Ohio, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Auglaize and Tiffin rivers with the Maumee, about 5o m . S.W. of Toledo . Pop . (189o) 7694; (1900) 7579 (960 foreign-born); (1910) 7327 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Wabash railways, and by the Ohio Electric railway to Lima (42 m.) . The city commands a fine view of the rivers and the surrounding country, which is well adapted to agriculture; and has large machine shops and several flour mills, besides manufactories of agricultural implements, waggons, sashes and blinds, and wood-working machinery for the manufacture of artillery wheels . Here, too, is Defiance College, an institution of the Christian Denomination, opened in r885 . Defiance was long the site of an Indian village . In 1794 General Anthony Wayne built a fort here and named it Defiance . In 1822 Defiance was laid out as a town; in 1845 it was made the county seat of the newly erected county; and in 1881 it became a city of the second class .