FOSTORIA, a city of northern Ohio, U.S.A., 35m. S. by E. of Toledo, in Seneca and Hancock counties. It is on Federal high way 23, and is well served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Hocking Valley, the New York Central and Electric railways. The popula tion was 9,987 in 1920 native white) and was 12,790 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is in a rich agricultural and oil producing region, and has a variety of important manufacturing industries. In 1832 two towns, Rome and Risdon, were founded on the site. After a period of bitter rivalry they were merged, and the city (chartered in 1854) was named after Charles W. Foster, whose son, Charles Foster (1828-1904), was governor of the State, 1880-84, and secretary of the Treasury,