The New Student's Reference Work/Alliance

Alli'ance, a city of Stark County, Ohio, situated on the Mahoning River, 56 miles from Cleveland. It is in a fine agricultural region and has importance as a manufacturing city. Among its products are agricultural implements, terra-cotta ware, white lead; and its steel works manufacture boilers, cranes, steam hammers, drop forgings and structural iron. Alliance was incorporated as a city in 1854, and its most important school, Mount Union College, was established in 1850, when the settlement was called Freedom. It has the service of several railroads, and the population is 15,083.