, 1900-07-14
MR.. CAREER.

''ON'h iSh' LIS III All "
America $50 years ago. Authentic rec
ords have the McKinleys in Scotland
back to 1547. About 1743 one of the
S%cotch-Irish McKinleys settled in
Chanceford township, York county,
Pa, where his son David, great-grand-
father of the president, was born in
May, l755. After serving in the revo-
luton, David resided in Pennsylvania
until 1914, when he went to Ohio, where
he died in 1910, at the 6 of So. James
Mckinley, son of David, moved to Col
umbiana county, o., in 1903, when
William, father of the president, was
not two years old. William Mckinley,
father of the president, was born in
Pine tow nip, Mercer county, Pa, in
1907, and was :ns. ried in 1929 to Name!
Campbell Allison of Columbiana coun-
ty, O., whose father, Abner Allison,
was of English extraction. Both the
grandfather and the father of the pres
ident were iron manufacturers or fur
mace men. William Mckinley, ST.,
died in 1892, during his sons first term
as governor of Ohio, and the mother
of Mr.. Mckinley passed away in De-
cember 1897, at the age of SO.
President Mckinley attended the
public schools of Niles, but when he
was Q years old the family removed to
Poland, Mahoning county, o., where
he was admitted into Union Seminary
and pursued his studies until he was
II. He exCelled in mathematics and
the languages. In 1860 he entered the
junior class of Allegheny college,
Meadville, Pa, where, it is said, he
would have graduated in the following
year but for the failure of his health.
owing to which, as soon as he was
able, he sought a change by engaging
as a teacher in the public schools. At
the age of 16 be became a member OF
che Met cd st Ep ssCpal C urch and
WIS Noted fJr his inform ton on Bib
lical matters. When the civil war broka
out he was a clerk in the Poland post
office. He volutIeIe ed, and, going with
a body of recruits to Columbus, was
there enlisted as a private in comp my
E Ct the Twenty-t ird Ohio volunteer
instantly, June II, 1861. In this regi-
ment were w. S. Rosecrans and Ruth
erford B. Hayes. The first engage
ment of the regiment was at Carnofer
Ferry, w. Va, September 10, 1861, and
in the winter camp at Fayetteville he
received his first promotion, being
made commissary-sergeant April Is,
1862. At Antietam Sergeant Mckinley.
in charge of the missionary department
of his brigade, filled two wagons with
coffee and other refreshments and
caused them to be hurried to the front
during the engagement. For this he
was made a lieutenant, his commission
dating from September "a, 1862. While
at Camp Piatt he vas promoted to first
lieutenant February 7, 1868, and in the
fighting around Lynchburg in June,
1868, Lieutenant Mckinley distin-
guished himself. 1t is recorded that
he also conducted himself with honor
| at Winchester. On July 25, 1864, at the
age of 81, Lieutenant Mckinley was
promoted to captain. At Berryville,
September 8. 1864, his horse was shot.
r,n, rn,r;no an Cow rrnply'. 81, re-
and that of Gen. Hancock, Capt. Nc
Kinley was assigned as acting assist
ant acknowledgement on the staff of
Gen. Samuel S. Carroll, commanding
the veteran reserve corps at Washing
ton, where he remained through that
exciting period which included the sur
render of Gen. Lee and the assassina-
ton Of President Lincoln. On March
4, 1865. he was commissioned major by
brevet in the volunteer United States
army "for gallant and m%eritorious
services at the battles of Opequan,
Cedar Creek and Fishers Hill" He
was mustered out with his regiment
on July &c, 1865, and returned to Po-
land.
He began the study of law under
Judge Charles E. Glidden and his part
ner, David NJ. Wilson, at Youngstown,
O., and completed his course at the AL
bany IN. W Law school, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Warren county,
O., in March, 1867. He settled in Can
ton, and in the fall of 1867 made his
first political speeches, which were in
favor of negro suffrage. He was elect
ed prosecuting attorney for Stark coun-
ty in 1869, but failed of reelection in
1871. In the gubernatorial campaign
between Allen and Hayes in 1875 Mr..
Mckinley took the stump in behalf Of
the resumption Of specie payments.
In 1876 he was nominated for congress
on the first ballot and was elected over
Leslie L. Lanhorn by $500 majority.
On April Is, 1878. he made a speech in
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