WOOSTER, a city of Ohio, U.S.A., the county seat of Wayne county; on the Lincoln highway. Population (1920) 8,204 native white) ; 1930 by Federal census, 10,742. It is the seat of the College of Wooster (Presbyterian; 1866), occupying a beautiful site of ioo ac. on a hill 'J o° ft. above sea-level; and of the Ohio agricultural experiment station, which operates 2,000 ac. of farmlands and 17,000 ac. of forests at different points
in the State. The city has the largest paint-brush factory in the country and is headquarters of the oil and gas industry of the county, whose farms are nearly all under lease for drilling. Wooster was laid out in 1808, incorporated in 1817 and as a city in 1869. It was named in honour of Gen. David Wooster (1710-77).