The New Student's Reference Work/East Orange, N. J.

East Orange, N. J., a favorite residential town in Essex County, N. J., for the business men of New York, 12 miles distant.  It is served by the Erie and Delaware and Lackawanna and Western railroads.  It adjoins Newark to the south.  It has, besides a great number of handsome suburban villas, some good schools and commodious churches.  Its growth has been considerable in the past decade.  Population, 34,371.