CANTON

city, seat (1808) of Stark county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. The city lies 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Cleveland. It is the focus of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of North Canton, East Canton, and Massillon. Laid out in 1805, it was probably named by its founder, Bezaleel Wells, for the Canton estate in Baltimore, Md. (a private home founded on trade profits from China), of his friend Captain John O'Donnell. The community developed from a manufacturer of plows, reapers, and farm equipment into an important industrial centre. Diversified products now include electric sweepers, alloy steel, tapered roller bearings, safes and bank vaults, streetlight standards, heavy steel presses, water softeners, voting machines, internal-combustion engines, rubber products, and bricks and ceramics. William McKinley opened (1867) a law office in Canton, from where he later conducted his front-porch campaign for the presidency. After his assassination in 1901 his body was returned there for burial. He, his wife, and two daughters are now entombed in the McKinley Memorial in Westlawn Cemetery. The American Professional Football Association was formed in Canton in 1920 with Jim Thorpe of the Canton Bulldogs as its first president. To honour the city's role in organizing the sport, the National Professional Football Hall of Fame was established there in 1963. Canton is the seat of Malone College (a Quaker institution founded in 1892 in Cleveland), the Stark Campus of Kent State University (1946), Walsh University (1958, Roman Catholic), and Stark Technical College (1970). The Cultural Center for the Arts (1970) houses the Canton Art Institute, the Players Guild, and the Canton Symphony Orchestra, Civic Opera, and Poetry Society. The city's Stark County Historical Center includes the McKinley Museum, the Hall of Science and Industry, and the Hoover-Price Planetarium. Inc. village, 1828; town, 1834; city, 1854. Pop. (1990) city, 84,161; Canton-Massillon MSA, 394,106; (1994 est.) city, 84,188; (1995 est.) Canton-Massillon MSA, 403,695. city, seat (1862) of Lincoln county, southeastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies along the Big Sioux River at the Iowa border, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Sioux Falls. Founded in 1860, it was first called Commerce City but was renamed (1867) by settlers who believed that it was diametrically opposite Canton, China. It became the centre of a Norwegian community and was used by Ole Rlvaag as a setting for his novel Giants in the Earth (1927). The agriculture-based economy (grain, livestock, poultry, commercially raised pheasants, and dairy products) is augmented by light industries. Inc. 1881. Pop. (1990) 2,787.