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==History== The name of Canton was officially designated on its incorporation in 1806. While assisting with the town's organization, its name was given by Ephraim Mills, ancestor of [[Lewis S. Mills]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=December 19, 2010 |title=Exhibit to feature Lewis Mills' photography at Canton library |url=https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Exhibit-to-feature-Lewis-Mills-photography-at-12116667.php |access-date=May 4, 2022 |website=The Register Citizen |language=en-US}}</ref> There are two competing theories for Mills' source of the name, however.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/cantonsesquicent00unse |title=Canton Sesquicentennial, 1806-1956; A Short Illustrated History of Canton |publisher=Canton Sesquicentennial Committee |year=1956}}</ref> According to William Edgar Simonds, husband of Ephraim Mills' great-granddaughter, and Sylvester Barbour in his book ''Reminisces'', Canton's name derives from [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]], a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] administrative division.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Barbour |first=Sylvester |url=https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/Reminiscences.pdf |title=Reminisces |publisher=Hartford Press |year=1908 |pages=32β33}}</ref> Simonds wrote that Canton "... is derived from a supposed likeness to a Swiss canton, the meaning of the word being to divide or set off, and the partition from Simsbury made the name appropriate."<ref name=":1" /> Barbour instead noted that "it came from Mr. Mills' interest in the Swiss people and their ardent patriotism, and was suggested to his mind by their territorial divisions into cantons. The name appealed to him, partly because of its pleasant sound, and its being so easy to read and write."<ref name=":2" /> In an article within a 1903 issue of ''The Connecticut Magazine'', Joel N. Eno claimed without a source that Canton's name derived from [[Guangzhou|Canton]], an archaic name for [[Guangzhou|Guangzhou, China]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoEyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA331|year=1903|publisher=Connecticut Magazine Company|page=331}}</ref> This claim has since been repeated by others, such as ''The Register Citizen'',<ref name=":0" /> a Connecticut newspaper. Other towns such as [[Canton, Massachusetts]] and [[Canton, Ohio]] have used the name for the town. It separated from Simsbury in 1806. At the Collins ax factory in Collinsville, [[Elisha Root]] invented the important industrial technique of [[die casting]].
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