Oswego, principal port on the E. of Lake Ontario, is at the mouth of the Oswego River, in New York State; it has 4 miles of quays, and extensive accommodation for grain, and has a large trade, especially with Canada, in grain and lumber; the falls in the river are utilised for industrial purposes, the manufacture of starch and cornflour being famed.
Population (circa 1900) given as 22,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Oswald, St. * Oswestry