The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-12-09

greatest interest In everything concerning
her children and has followed every in
cident in the public career of the Presi-
dent.
During the memorable campaign for
the nomination and election to the Presi-
dency, Mother Mckinley was one of the
most interested observers of every fea-
ture and the freest TO express her pleas
ure and delight over the result, honesty
and simplicity restraining her from any
effort to conceal her feelings. She occu-
pied the place of honor at Major McKin-
ley's home when the news of the nomina-
tion came, and one Of the touching in
cidents of that day, showing the bond OF
sympathy between mother and son, was
the majors action on receiving the an
nouncement of his nomination. The
first thing he dill was to walk up to and
kiss his mother. During the coming OF
delegations she was an almost constant
visitor at the houe, and at the side OF
the devoted wife of the candidate, in the
hallway, watched the stirring scenes
without.
When the time for the Inauguration
came, Mother Mckinley went to Wash
ington on the Presidential train and re-
mained there until the President, and
Mrs. Mckinley were comfortably estab-
lished in the White House, but longer
than that she could not be prevailed upon
to stay. On returning to Canton she
made an exclamation Of joy on alighting
on the platform, and expressed the great
satisfaction she felt in getting back to
her home. She said then that she had
enjoyed her trip and had been greatly in
terested in all that she had seen and
heard in the national capital, but that
nothing could induce her to change her
Canton home for one in the busy throng
of city life, or such as surrounded her son
in his official home.
In thus passing her declining years,
Mother Mckinley was simply continu-
ing the life which the exigencies of the
times imposed in her younger days. She
and her late husband began life's battle
together in what was then a new coun-
try, Offering few of the present day lux
uries even to those who were afliuent,
which the McKinley's were not. The
elder Mckinley was an iron manufac-
turer and commenced business in n
modest way and with limited capital.
Besides this, the family grew to be a
large one and Mother McKinley's house
hold cares became so manifold that there
was little time for anything else.
Before becoming the wife of the Presi-
dents father, Mrs. Mckinley was Nancy
Campbell Allison. The Allisons came
originally from England and settled in
Virginia, but that branch of the family
from which Mrs. Mckinley came went
from Virginia to Green county, Penn
sylvania, where Abner Allison, Mrs.
McKinley's father, was born, and where
he married Ann Campbell, of Scotch-Ge
man descent. Early in the present cen
tury Mr.. and Mrs. Allison, with their
several children, came to Ohio, moving
by pack horses, Mrs. Allison riding
horseback the entire distance, holding
in front of her their youngest child.
They located on u farm near New Lisbon,
and there, in the year 1909, Mrs. McKin-
ley, their sixth child, was born and
christened Nancy Campbell Allison. Her
girlhood was passed on the farm and in
the little town of New Lisbon and in the
year 1897 she married William McKin-
ley and they removed to Fairfield, and
later to Niles and Poland before locating
in Canton.
Nine children were born of the union
of William Mckinley and Nancy Allison
Mckinley. They are: David Allison Nc
Kinley, deceased Anna Mckinley, de-
ceased; James Mckinley deceased; Mary
Mckinley, deceased; Helen Minerva Nc.
Kinley, of Canton; Sarah Elizabeth Nc.
Kinley, now Mrs. A. j. Duncan, OF
Cleveland; William Mckinley, President
of the United States; Abigail Celia Nc.
Kinley, deceased; Abner Mckinley, OF
New York.
William Mckinley Sr., died on Novem'
Der "a, 1892 at the age of eighty-flve.
From Tuesdays Daily
The President and his party, after an
other hair-raising dash across the coun
in this city at s S;55 this Tuesday morning
They were at once escorted to the -four
awaiting carriages and We're hastily dri
ven to the Mckinley residence in West
Tuscarawas street. In the party were
President ana Mrs. Mckinley, Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs. Day, Mise.
Mabel Mckinley and Mary Barber, Mr.
Jack Duncan, Mrs. Nancy Allison Nc
Kinley's grandson; two maids and the
steward of the White House Mrs. Abnel
Mckinley was taken i'll at Washington
and returned TO her New York home in
stead of accompanying the party, as she
was expected to do.
At the Mckinley homestead no change
had occurred in the aged patients con
dition. Mother Mckinley lay in a deeI
stupor from which the touch o.
her beloved sons hand aroused her
Her breathing since yesterday has be
come even more labored and she has beer