WOBURN, a city of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., '0 m. N.N.W. of Boston; served by the Boston and Maine railroad. Pop. (1920) foreign-born white) ; 193o Federal census 19,434. The city has an area of 12.6 sq.m., and embraces several villages. Its manufacturing industries, con centrated in a small territory, had an output in 1927 valued at $15,779,050. Woburn is the principal leather-manufacturing cen tre in New England. In the burial-ground are the graves of ancestors of four presidents (Cleveland, Harrison, Pierce and Garfield). The public library, on the Common, was designed
by H. H. Richardson. Among the colonial houses are the birthplace of Count Rumford (built about 1714, and kept as a museum) and the Baldwin mansion 0660, the home of Loammi Baldwin (178o-1838), "the father of civil engineering in America.' Woburn was settled about 1638-40, and in 1642 was set off from Charlestown and incorporated as a town. The town was chartered as a city in 1888.