BARBERTON, a manufacturing city of Summit county, Ohio, U.S.A., 6m. S.W. of Akron, on the Tuscarawas river. It is served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Erie and the Pennsyl vania railroads, and by a belt line to Akron. The population in creased from 4,354 in 'goo to 18,81I in 192o, of whom 4,476 were foreign-born white, and was 23,934 in 193o Federal census. The principal manufactures are automobile tyres, matches, high ten sion insulators and bailers. The output of its 4o establishments I 9 2 7 was valued at $40,066,130.