CANTON, a city of north-eastern Ohio, U.S.A., 6om. S. by E. of Cleveland, at an altitude of 1,065f t., the county seat of Stark county. It is on the Lincoln highway, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railways, and the electric lines of the Northern Ohio Power and Light Company. The area is 12.6 square miles. The popu lation in 1920 was 87,091 (81.6% native white), and was, 1930, 104,906 Federal census. Canton is a rapidly growing, important manufacturing centre, surrounded by rich farm lands and deposits of clay, shale and coal. It has over 30o factories, making 1,50o diversified products. Steel is manufactured from ore to billet and bar, and is the basic material for the majority of the other prod ucts, such as safes, vaults, bridges, structural steel, steel "lumber" and furniture, bank grilles, elevator enclosures, roller bearings, ornamental street-lighting standards, and so on. Brick and tile, in many varieties, china and stone ware, constitute a second large group of industries, dating back to 1840. Rubber gloves, rubber tyres, paints, varnishes, enamels, toys and watches are other important products. The output of the factories in and near the city in 1926 was valued at $370,000,000. Incoming freight amounted to 3,284,428 tons; outbound, to 1,498,365. The assessed valuation of property was $225,203,220; and bank debits to in dividual accounts were $570,138,285.
From 1867 Canton was the home of President McKinley. His dwelling, the scene of the "front-porch campaign," is now used as a hospital annex. He is buried in a beautiful granite memorial, erected by the nation, in a park of 26ac. on Monument hill. Can ton was laid out in 1805, became the county seat in 1808, and was chartered as a city in 1854. Its great industrial development has taken place in the 2oth century. In 1850 the population was 2,603; in 1880, 12,258; in 1900, 30,667. Between 1900 and 1910 it increased 63.7%; between 1910 and 1920, 73.4%.