SUMMIT  , a

city of Union county, New Jersey, U.S.A., in the north-east of the state, about 21 M . W. of New York City . Pop . (1900) 5302, of whom x397 were foreign-born; (1905) 6845; (1910) 7500 . It is served by the Morris & Essex and the Passaic & Delaware divisions of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, and by the Rahway Valley railroad extending to Roselle, 9 M. distant . Summit is picturesquely situated on the crest of a ridge called Second Mountain, with a mean elevation of 450 ft . It is a residential suburb of New York, and attracts a number of summer residents . Among its institutions are a public library (1874), a home for blind children, the Overlook hospital and the Kent Place school (1894) for girls . On Hobart Hill there is a monument marking the site of a beacon light and a signal gun used during the War of Independence . Summit was incorporated as a township in 1869 from parts of the townships at Springfield and New Providence, and was chartered as a city in 189q .