Oberlin (Ohio)

Lorain County

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Oberlin is a small city in Lorain County of the U.S. state of Ohio, about 65 km southwest of Cleveland. She had 2000 8.195 inhabitants in a population census. The settlement was, as the local eponymous Oberlin College founded in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers and named after the social reformer active in Alsace Pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin.

In addition to the College, there is another important employer, the Federal Aviation Administration, which operates a major air traffic control center here, whose air monitoring is sufficient to Canada.

Mayor is a City Manager, who is supported by a seven-member, every two years, the newly elected council.

At number 207 East College Street is the historic John Mercer Langston House.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Otis Bardwell Boise, composer
  • Claude Bragdon, architect, author and theosophist
  • David Kellogg Lewis, important philosopher of the twentieth century
  • Smith Newell Penfield, composer

Personalities

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