The Hoover Company

The Hoover Inn: The Hoover Inn was located on the northeast corner of Main Street and E Maple Ave. It was later called Deetz’s.

The Electric Suction Sweeper Company: Company president H. W. Hoover, Sr., renamed the company to The Hoover Company in 1922.

North Canton High School Marching Band: The North Canton Hight School marching band from 1939 is pictured in front of East Maple Avenue entrance.

Esta Stoner: Esta Stoner was H.W. Hoover’s secretary for nearly fifty years. She was Editor-in-Chief of the “Newsy News”. The first “Newsy News” was produced on September 26, 1917, for the purpose of informing the boys from New Berlin of the town’s happenings. For the first eight weekly issues, ten typewritten copies were made and one was sent to each of the military camps. Actual photographs were pasted to the sheets. By 1919, 1,300 copies were distributed each week and the “Newsy News” had become a permanent weekly newspaper for the Company, the employees, and North Canton citizens.

Ellsworth P. Smith: Ellsworth P. Smith (Ells to his friends and colleagues) left a lasting legacy in North canton and nationally. He was an artist, a veteran of WWI, an Art Director, a family man, a teacher, and a friend. Through his art and his contributions to the North Canton YMCA, the Little Art Gallery, the Canton Museum of Art, and The Hoover Company, his legacy continues to positively impact North Canton and Stark County after his death. He had a 40-year career at The Hoover Company, where he served with distinction as the Art Director and close confidant to Hoover Company Presidents “Boss” Hoover and W.H. Hoover Sr. Smith documented much of North Canton’s landscape in the beautiful watercolors that he created. He once said, “Gosh, I think I’ve painted everything paintable in North Canton, except sides of a few old barns.” His cartoons also brightened the days of thousands of Hoover Company employees each time they were included in an issue of the Hoover News (formally Newsy News).