ALBION, a city of Calhoun county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the Kalamazoo river, 18 m. W. of Jackson. It is on the Michigan Central and the New York Central railways, and is connected by trolley with cities as far north as Grand Rapids and Owosso. The population was 8,354 in 192o and was 8,324 in 193o by the Fed eral census. It has 16 factories. On a commanding site in the east part of the city is Albion college (Methodist Episcopal; co-educa tional), which had an enrolment of 765 students in 1926-27. Albion was settled in 1831, incorporated as a village in 1866, and chartered as a city in 1885. The form of govern ment was adopted in 1915.