Where is the art that says Canton? Inside the Frank Bow building , the old post office on Cleveland and 2nd st. N.W. there are several magnificent murals which honor the city’s industry. At the same site in 1851 William Martin was born, whose monoplane hangs in the Smithsonian. On that same spot George Halas began our rendezvous with  pro football which is celebrated in the Hall of Fame.  Next door, the Cleve-Tusc parking building was formerly named after William R. Day, former Secretary of  State, responsible for annexing Hawaii. and a Supreme Court Justice.  But he is not so honored in the renaming of that building. After twenty four years of Law practice in Canton Atlee Pomerene became a U.S. Senator and adjudicated the Tea Pot Dome Scandal. In 1907 Frank Lahm brought international fame to Canton through his many balloon flights with the aero Club of Ohio. His son, Frank P. Lahm was the first military man to fly with Orville Wright. 1912, Jim Thorpe would win the gold in the Olympics, and play for the Canton Bulldogs from 1920-1925.   In 1929 The Stern and Mann building across the street was designed by President Garfield’s son, Abram.  Shortly after that  Larry Snyder of Canton was coaching Jesse Owens at Ohio State. And after 33 years of coaching  Larry had coached over eight gold medal winners at the Olympics and is now in the Track and Field Hall of Fame. One hundred years earlier, Louis Schaefer brought national Opera to his theatre on Tuscarawas and Market, and in the 1850s Cornelius Aultman created the largest manufactory  of plows in the world, in the old brick building next to the tracks on South Market. Harry S. Renkert would eventually make Canton internationally the center of the paving brick industry.   In the early 1900’s Charles R. Macaulay was cartooning at the Canton Repository and after years in Cartooning, Script writing and Movie making won a Pulitzer for his 1939 Cartoon in the Brooklyn Eagle. While Macaulay was cartooning,   Don Mellett brought to the Canton Daily News by Governor Cox won his Pulitzer posthumously  for reform of the City. The Journalism award at New York University bears his name, as does a building at Indiana University. Peggy Anne Garner won a special Oscar for her role in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. In the 1940's and 1950's Jean Peters was a very popular leading lady in Hollywood and in 1957 married Howard Hughes. Frank DeVol received Oscar nominations for his scores in Pillow Talk, Cat Ballou and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. From 1957 to 1962 Jack Paar was the host of NBC's Tonight Show. Canton honored three more gold medal winners in the Olympics with Ron Harris (1968), Dave Wottle (1972)and Phil Hubbard(1976). John Scali reporter with ABC for several years, became the negotiator responsible for solving the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was President of the United Nations Security Council in 1972. In 2000 Macy Gray won a Grammy for her recording, "I Try." In 2005, the O'Jays were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.