Here on the Mississippi, where wooded hills rise above the plains along the river, Edward White, Robert Sinclair, and Isaac Bland founded Canton, probably named for Canton, Ohio, in February 1830. On the pioneer Salt River Trail, the town by 1860 was a thriving river port and trade center for the upper Salt River Country. A rival town, Tully, laid out adjacent to Canton in 1834, declined after the flood of 1851 and disappeared when Federal Lock and Dam No. 20 were built in the 1930's. During the Civil War, the countryside suffered from raids and recruiting sorties by Confederate and Union troops. In the period after the war, Canton recovered its economic standing with the coming of the St. Louis, Keokuk, and Northwestern R.R. in 1871. Culver-Stockton College, founded here by the Disciples of Christ in 1853 as Christian University, is famed for having the first college charter in Missouri to assure equal education to men and women. The present name, adopted in 1917, honors Mary E. Culver and R.H. Stockton, school benefactors. Canton was the first town founded in Lewis County, a fertile Mississippi River county organized in 1833 and named for Meriwether Lewis. Settled by Southern pioneers as early as 1819, Lewis County lies in territory ceded to the U.S. by Iowa, Sac, and Fox tribes in 1824. Westward is Monticello, the county seat, laid out on the North Fabius in 1833. La Grange, south on the Mississippi, an early river port and meat packing town, was laid out in April 1830 near the mouth of the Wyaconda, where Godfrey Le Seur is said to have had a trading post by 1795. Hannibal-La Grange College was chartered there as La Grange College in 1859. Sculptor Frederick C. Hibbard was born in Canton, and editor Jesse W. Barrett, a founder of the Missouri Press Association in 1867, Union General David Moore, and jurist David Wagner lived here. James S. Green, noted U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1861, and Confederate General Martin E. Green lived near Monticello, and Confederate Colonel Joseph C. Porter lived in the southwest part of the county. Thomas Riley Marshall, later U.S. Vice President from 1913 to 1921, lived for a time in La Grange.