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2 unusual facts about Wooster


Billy Uhl

Billy Uhl (born April 22, 1950 in Wooster, Ohio) is a retired American motorcycle enduro competitor.

Wooster Nagar

Dedicated January 3, 2007, the village consists of 26 homes built with funds donated by citizens of Wooster, Ohio USA.


Breakfast on Pluto

Pussy's politician lover in the novel becomes a glam rock musician played by Gavin Friday with whom Kitten may or may not have had a sexual relationship, and Pussy's lover Bertie Wooster becomes magician Bertie Vaughan (Stephen Rea), with whom Kitten has an unrequited flirtation.

Charles Whiting Wooster

Charles William Whiting Wooster, was a Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy.

Cyrus Spink

Spink was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1859, until his death in Wooster, Ohio, on May 31, 1859.

Dick Schafrath

Richard Philip "Dick" Schafrath (born March 21, 1937 in Wooster, Ohio) is a retired offensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns, former Ohio State Senator and author.

J. Garber Drushal

Garber Drushal (July 16, 1912 – December 3, 1982) was the eighth President of The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio USA.

Neighborhoods in Akron, Ohio

Wooster Avenue was recently renamed Vernon Odom Boulevard, a nod to the neighborhood’s African American heritage.

Silas Ferrell House

Shiloh was platted in September 1852 around a rural station of the Sandusky and Mansfield Railroad at a three-way junction with the Cleveland and Columbus Railroad and with the road between the cities of Tiffin and Wooster.

Student social organizations at the College of Wooster

The College of Wooster, an Ohio school, has 4 active, chartered fraternities, known at Wooster as Sections, and 5 active, chartered sororities, known as Clubs, as of Summer 2006.

The Duck Factory

Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth.

The Wooster Book Company

Under the trade name “The Wooster Book Company,” its first title, a corporate history of Rubbermaid, written by retired Rubbermaid CEO and Chairman of the Board, Donald E. Noble, was released in 1996.

William Lafayette Strong

He was born in Loudonville, Ohio; was a dry-goods salesman in Wooster and then in Manchester, Ohio; in 1853 went to New York City, where he engaged in similar business, and in 1869 became the head of the firm of William L. Strong & Co.

WKSU-FM

WKSU-FM also extends its signal by using two translators and four full-power repeaters: DW204AJ/Wooster (88.7 FM), W239AZ/Ashland (95.7 FM), WKSV/Thompson (89.1 FM), WKRW/Wooster (89.3 FM), WNRK/Norwalk (90.7 FM), and WKRJ/New Philadelphia (91.5 FM).

Wooster Collective

Street artists who had been featured in the Wooster Collective, such as Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Dan Witz, Above, D*Face, The London Police, Skewville, Lady Pink, John Fekner and Don Leicht and Graffiti Research Lab participated in the event.

Wooster Square

Elizabeth Mills Brown, Historic Houses of Wooster Square, The, ASIN B0007FO856, (1969)


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