WOOSTER  , a

city and the county-seat of Wayne county, Ohio, U.S.A., on Killbuck Creek, about 50 M . S. by W. of Cleveland . Pop . (1900) 6063 (407 foreign-born); (1910) 6136 . Wooster is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania' railways . It is the seat of the university of Wooster (co-educational; Presbyterian; founded in 1866 and opened in 1870), which in 1909 had 37 instructors and 1547 students . The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station is in the city, which also has various manufactures . Wooster was laid out in ,8o8, was incorporated as a town in 1817, and became a city of the second class in 1869 . It was named in honour of General David Wooster (1710-1777), who was killed in the War of Independence .