Findlay
[key], city (2020 pop. 40,313), seat of Hancock co., NW Ohio, on the
Blanchard River; inc. 1887. Petroleum products, tires, washing machines,
heavy machinery, and plastic goods are among its many manufactures. Gas and
oil were discovered there in the 1880s, but by 1900 the supply had greatly
diminished. In the Findlay Jeffersonian appeared (1861) the
satiric antislavery letters of “Petroleum V. Nasby.” The city
is the home of Findlay College.
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