EAST ORANGE, a city of Essex county, New Jersey, 11m. W. of New York city, adjoining Newark. It is served by the Erie and the Lackawanna railways, and by interurban trolley and motor-coach lines. The population was 50,710 in 1920 (82% native white) and was 68,020 in 1930 by the Federal census of that year. East Orange and the adjoining municipalities of Orange, West Orange, South Orange and Maplewood (together known as "the Oranges") form a great residential suburban community, with a total population of about 120,000. The streets are broad and well shaded and there are many beautiful homes and several private schools, besides a public school system of high excellence. In East Orange is Upsala college (Lutheran, established 1893) and in South Orange Seton Hall college (Roman Catholic, 1856). East Orange has an assessed valuation of $111,615,682 (1927). Its manufacturing industries are concentrated largely in the section called Ampere, and the principal products are pharmaceutical materials, dynamos, valves and pipe-fittings and water-works supplies. The aggregate output in 1927 was valued at $8,8S7,282. In 1863 the township of East Orange was separated from the township of Orange, which had been set off from Newark in 1806; and in 1899 the city was incorporated.