ALLIANCE, a city of Stark county, O., U.S.A., on the Mahoning river, 55m. S.E. of Cleveland, about i,o8oft. above sea-level. It is served by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railway systems. The population was 21,603 in 1920, of whom 3,026 were foreign-born whites; and was 23,047 in 193o Federal census. The city has important manufactures, including heavy machinery, steel, automatic equipment, household appli ances, office equipment, boilers and pottery. One drop-forging plant employs 2,000 men. The output of the 46 establishments within the city in 1927 was valued at On an eminence in the south-western part of the city, two miles from the business and industrial districts is Mount Union college, a co-educational college of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which in 1926-27 had an enrolment of 769. It began as a "select school" of six pupils in 1846, and in 1858 was chartered as a college. In 191 I Scio college (1857) was merged with it. Alliance was settled and laid out in 1838; incorporated as a village in 1854, and as a city in 1888. Until 1851 it was called Freedom.