ASHLAND, city of Ohio, U.S.A., the county seat of Ashland county; S5m. south-west of Cleveland, on the Erie Railroad and an electric railway running from Cleveland to Bucyrus. The population increased from 4,087 in 1900 to 6,795 in 1910, and to in 5920, 97% being native-born white, and was 11,141 in 1930 by the Federal census. The city has varied manufactures. in cluding electros, poultry foods, medicines, pumps, hay carriers, bed springs, automobile jacks, toys, furnaces, raincoats, concrete vaults, electric dish washers and aluminum ware. Ashland College, a co-educational institution established by the Brethren Church in 1878, is here.