CANTON, Ohio, city, county-seat of Stark County, on the Nimishillen Creek, and on the Pennsylvania, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Baltimore and Ohio 60 miles southeast of Cleveland. Interurban electric railroads con nect all cities and towns within a radius of 50 miles. The commercial centre of the second richest agricultural county of Ohio, also rank ing among the six richest of the nation, Canton has an extensive grain trade, and manufactures of brick, sheet steel and iron, watches, enamel ware, roller bearings, safes, bridges, toys, knives, etc. The total manufacturing output is valued at $52,000,000 annually. Neighboring deposits of coal, limestone and pottery clay are also extensively worked. An immense plant supplies electric light and power, natural gas is piped at a domestic rate of 30 cents; an artesian water supply is maintained and operated by the municipality, and a fire department with a modern motor-equipped apparatus. Bank clearings in 1915 amounted to $95,873,208, an increase of $16,000,000 over 1914; bank de posits totaled $27,000,000, resources over $30, 000,000. Canton was the home of President McKinley and one of the city's features is the stately National memorial erected in 1907 on Monument Hill in West Lawn Cemetery, where the President and his wife are buried. Of
granite, with a bronze statue of the President and with two sarcophagi containing the bodies, the monument stands in beautiful grounds covering 26 acres; from the lowest step it reaches a height of 163 feet 6 inches and 78 feet 9 inches in diameter. The memorial to the American soldiers of the Spanish-American War is also noteworthy. The city's principal buildings include the Federal building, city hall, city auditorium, county administration building, public library, high and other schools, several theatres, numerous handsome churches which cost $250,000, membership 1,500. Nimisilla park and Meyer's Lake park are at tractive outing resorts. Canton was settled about 1805, was incorporated as a village in 1822 and received a city charter in 1854. It is administered by a mayor and nine aldermen, elected under a law of 1902.