Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-21

In the tragic death Of William Nc
Klnley the nation has lost more than
President. II has lost a man OF whom
/, was proud 10 say, HE Is a typical
American" Just how great Is this loss
can best be realized by n review OF the
life Of our third martyred President
II IS life which can stand the search
ing rays OF publicity, for the career OF
william Mckinley bears no blot re-
veals no b.emish, from its humble be-
v,nrlng 10 its illustrious but sorrowful
eniing.
He was born Jan. 49, ls4S, at Niles
Trumbull county, o.
When he was nine years old, his par
ents removed to Poland, where he
passed the rest Of his boyhood and
school days.
In 1860 he taught school, olerked In
the Poland postofiice and finally, In
inne of chat year. enlisted as private
In company E, Twenty-third Ohio vol
unleers.
In 1862 he was promoted to be COM
migsary sergeant and later to second
lieutenant on the star Of Rutherford
r. Hayes. lie distinguished himself In
several engagements,
In 1863 he became first lieutenant.
In 1854 he was promoted to captain
and detailed as acting adJutant general
OF the first division, First Army corps.
In 1866, having been brevetted q ma
for of volunteers and lpnorably dis
charged, he returned to Poland and re-
sumed the study OF law.
In 1867 he was admitted to the bar
and began practice at Canton
In 1871 he was married to Miss Ida
ssXton Of Canton.
In 1876 he was elected to Congress,
serving as a representative from Ohio
for fourteen years.
In 1890 he acted as chairman OF the
ways and means committee which
framed the bill that afterward became
known as the Mckinley tariff law.
In 1891 he was elected governor OF
Ohio.
In 1898 he was reelected governor of
Ohio.
In 1886 he was elected President Of the
United States
In 1897 he was inaugurated President.
In 1898 he personally supervised the
conduct OF the Spanish-American war.
In 1899 he shaped the policy which
resulted In the extension of our do
main far beyond its former borders.
In 1900 he was reelected President by
a popular plurality Of $4,000.
In 1901 he had begun his second adj
ministration with the establishment Of
civil government In the Philippines and
was preparing to inaugurate home rule
In Cuba. Early In the spring he made
memorable tour OF the country from
Washington 10 San Francisco, the jour-
ney being interrupted by the serious
Illness Of Mrs. Mckinley. With the re-
turning health OF Mrs. Mckinley he ac-
cep,ed an Invitation to visit the Pan,
American exposition at Buffalo, and II
was at the close of his third day that
he was shot.
McKINLEY's BoYHooD.
To speak at length OF William Nc
kinley's ancestry would be to repeat
facts that are already we'll known.
That he was descended from sturdy
Scotch-1 Irish ancestors, that he was the
child of William Mckinley, a pioneer
In the iron pudding business in Ohio
these facts have been threshed over
again and again.
Though the town Of Canton Is most
Intimately associated with the name of
Mckinley, II was not his birthplace.
He was born In Niles.
The old Inhabitants of that quaint
little village claim TO remember him.
but their memories are vague for he
was only boy when the family moved
10 Poland, Mahoning county. o. His
people were not rich then. neither were
they very poor
Young William was sent TO the vii
laEe school at Niles, but his father felt
that better educational advantages for