TIFFIN  , a

city and the county-seat of Seneca county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Sandusky river, about 40 M . S.S.E. of Toledo . Pop . (Igoe), 10,989, of whom 1168 were foreign-born; (Y910 census), 11,894 . Tiffin is served by' the Baltimore & Ohio, the Cleveland . Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis and the Pennsylvaniarailways, and by an electric line to Fostoria, about 12 m. west . It is the seat of an Ursuline College for girls, founded in 1863 and incorporated with power to confer degrees in 1878; and of Heidelberg University (Reformed Church), founded in 185o, incorporated as Heidelberg College in 1851 and reincorporated under its present name in 189o . The Heidelberg Theological Seminary was conducted here from 185o to 1907, when it was combined with the "School of Theology " of Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, to form the Central Theo-logical Seminary of the itefoimed Church in the United States, which in 19o8 was removed to Dayton, Ohio . In Tiffin are the St Francis Home (1869), and the National Orphans' Home (1897) . The city had 87 factories in 1905, of which 54.2% were owned by individuals, and the value of the,factory products was $2,434,502 . Tiffin was settled in 1817, incorporated as a town in 1835, and chartered as a city in 185o, when the village of Ft . Ball, on the opposite side of the Sandusky, was consolidated with it .

It was named in

honour of Edward Tiffin (1766-1829), a native of Carlisle, England, who emigrated to. the United States . He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, removed in 1796 to Chillicothe, Ohio . where he practised medicine and was a local Methodist preacher . He was speaker of the House of Representatives of the North-west Territory in 1799, president (1802) of the convention which framed the first constitution of Ohio, the first governor of the state (1803-1807), a Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1807-1809, first commissioner of the United States General Land Office in 1812-1814, and surveyor-general of public lands north-west of the Ohio River in 1814-1829 .