Ash'tabu'la, OHIO, a city in Ashtabula co., 54 mi. n. e. of Cleveland, on the Ashtabula River, 3 mi. from Lake Erie, and on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the New York, Chicago & St. Louis and other railroads. It is in an agricultural and dairy region and has shaft factories, tanneries, woolen mills and farm implement works. There is an excellent harbor, and the city does a large business in the trans-shipment of coal and iron ore. The place was first settled in 1805. Population in 1910, 18,266.