The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-11-10

tNll 'Dhutlt ONO, On january
%. 1913. After attending the
public schools he went to Poland Academy.
and subsequently to Allegheny College, but
before attaining his majority had become Il
teacher in the public schools on June II.
1861, when he was in his nineteenth year, he
enlisted as a private in the Twenty third
Ohio Volunteers. becoming commissary ser
geant on April Is, 1862, second lieutenant on
September % of the same year, first lieutenant
on February Z, 1863, and captain on July %,
1864. He served successfully on tho stats OF
Generals Il, b. Hayes, George Crook and
Winfield S. Hancock, and towards the close
of the war was detailed as acting assistant
adiutant general of the First Division First
Army Corps, on the staff of General S S.
Carroll. He was breyetted major of voluu
teers for galantry in battle in March, 1865.
and in July following was mustered out Of
the service.
Major Mckinley then applied himself 10
the study OF law, which he completed by a
course at the Albany y. W Law School
In 1867 be was admitted to the bar. ana set
tied down at Canton, Ohio, in the practice Of
his profession. that town since remaining bis
home. In 1868 he was elected pr. scouting
attorney %; stark county. bUt served only one
term in that office. Ia l9GT he made his en-
trance upon the field OF national politics, and
was elected II member Of the lower house of
Congress. in which for the next fourteen
years h" represented the congressional dis
trirt OF which his county was Il part As
chairman OF the Ways and Means Committee
he reported the tari!I law OF 1890. in the pre-
paratIOn Of which he took "a leading part,
a al hi.
In November OF that wear Major Mckinley
was defeated for reelection to Congress, the
new appOrtiOnmcnt of the state having been
so gerrymandered as to throw him into Il
Democratic district, but he succeeded in re-
ducing the usual adverse majority from 3 900
to 800. There was however, practically no
interval in his public career. for in 1891, Il
few months after he retired from the House
he was elected governor of Ohio hy "a plurality
of q. 5l1 over James L. Campbell the Demo-
cratic incumbent of the office. Two years
later he was reelected by plurality of So
995 over Lawrence r. Neal. Democrat. and
retired from the governorship at the close of
1895.
Major Mckinley served as a delegate. at
large in the Republican National Convention
OF 1854, when he supported Blaine for presi-
dent. and rs member of the committee on
resolutions read the platform to the conven-
ton In ISIS he was again a delogate-at-
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