Oil City, on the Alleghany River, Pennsylvania, by rail 130 m. N. of Pittsburg, is the centre of a great oil-trade and oil-refining industry; there are also engineer and boiler works; it suffered severely from floods in 1892.
Population (circa 1900) given as 11,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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