Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-25
MAJOR M'KINLEY's BIRTHPLACE.

Major Mckinleys failure il still attracting
some talk in Washington and there is a gen.
uine sympathy for him here, for it is well known
that he is not money maker or money
spender. He began life like Brice as
poor boy and he has devoted himself
more to making reputation than to making
money and the most of the property that be had
came, / am told, from his wife. who was the
daughter of a well-to-do newspaper editor of
Canton. Mckinley was born at Niles. g. little
mining town in northern Ohio, and saw here
the other day the little two-story cottage in
which his boyhood was spent. II did not cost
more than 81 500 to build. and part of it is
now used as a grocery store. There is a porch
over the front door and Mckinley, when he
makes stump speeches at Niles, usually comes
out on this porch and addresses the people
His father was one Of the more important en-
plOyes of one Of the rolling mills of tine town
and young Mckinley was given q fairly good
education. He was known in Niles as young
Bill Mckinley" and the people there told me
that he a studious bow with enough muscle
to take care Of himself. He went into the army
when he was seventeen and when the war was
over he went to Canton. which was then a town
Of perhaps II COO, and began the practice of
law. 1t was from Canton that he came to Con-
gress, and the best part Of his prime has been
spent in political life. He has never spent much
money in entertaining at Washington. though
this may have been due somewhat to the poor
health Of his wife. He usually lived at the Eb-
bitt House end always looked clean and we'll
dressed. He had fair practice before he came
to Congress- but he has never saved much
money to speak of, and / understand that his
political career has cost him more than his
salary. He Is a very ambitious man and he
still hopes to have a term in the White House.
He is quiet IN his ways when of the stump and
is good conversationalist as we'll as good
speaker. A friend of his who has gone with
him during many of his campaigns told me that
Mckinley dislikes to talk politics when of the
stump, and that he is q man OF wide reading
and of much general knowledge. He said that
Of his voice, but that after he finishes q speech
he always goes to his room apd takes of every
stitch Of his clothes and then rubs himself down
with a coarse towel He then puts on new IN
derclothes to wear during the rest Of the day or
evening.
NEW STORIES OF GRANT AND SHERMAN.
Speaking Of Ohio it is wonderful how many
prominent men come from that state. In Har-
rison's cabinet there were four men who were
born in Ohio. These were Rusk Elkins, Foster
and Noble. President Harrison first saw light
In the same state. Senator Allison spent his
boyhood in Ohio. Henderson came from Can
ton and Jones. the silver millionaire, went to
school in Cleveland. Senator Stewart of Nevada
came from Newark Ohio Dan Voorhees, got
his frst spanking not far from Cincinnati and
Turpie of Indiana first squaled in Hamilton
county. The two great generals Of the war,
Grant and Sherman, were born in Ohio and the
Among others the following were told me by
Gen. ". H. Gibson. the famous Ohio orator,
who is now postmaster at Tifin. Said Gen.