Short answers, pulled from the story.
The National Football League was founded in Canton, Ohio, on the 17th of September 1920, at the Hupmobile showroom in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building. The organization was originally named the American Professional Football Association and was renamed the National Football League in 1922.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is a museum in Canton, Ohio, that opened on the 7th of September 1963. It has expanded multiple times and as of 2013 consisted of five buildings covering 118,000 square feet. More than 10 million people have visited since its founding.
Debs was arrested on the 30th of June 1918 and charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 after delivering an antiwar speech at Nimisilla Park in Canton on the 16th of June 1918. A jury convicted him on the 12th of September 1918, and he was sentenced to ten years in prison. President Warren Harding commuted his sentence on the 25th of December 1921.
William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, first came to Canton around 1867 to practice law and made the city his home for most of his adult life. He conducted his front porch presidential campaigns of 1896 and 1900 from his Canton home. The McKinley National Memorial, dedicated in 1907, and the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum are located in Canton.
Surveyor Bezaleel Wells named Canton in honor of Captain John O'Donnell, an Irish merchant marine who had named his Maryland estate after the Chinese port city of Guangzhou, then romanized as Canton. O'Donnell was the first person to transport goods from Guangzhou to Baltimore. Wells recorded the town plat on the 15th of November 1805.
The Timken Company is a manufacturer of tapered roller bearings, tracing its origins to an 1898 patent by Henry Timken. The company moved to Canton in 1901 because of the city's position between the automobile manufacturing centers of Detroit and Cleveland and the steel-making centers of Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In 2014 the company split into two: The Timken Company, which relocated to nearby Jackson Township, and TimkenSteel, which remains headquartered in Canton.