Free press., 1901-09-14

Upton, On board the yacht Erin at
New York; Grover Cleveland, who
was fishing at Tyringham. Mass; Car
dinaI Gibbons of Baltimore, Mrs. Bar
Der of Canton, O., sister of the Presi-
dent; William J. Bryan of Lincoln.
Neb.; the lord mayor of London, King
Edward, who was travelling from
Frankfort to Hamburg; Attorney Gen
eral Knox, at P1ttsburg; Secretary
Gage, at Chicago; Secretary Hitchcock.
at Dublin, N. H.; former Attorney
General Griggs, at Paterson, N J.;
Secretary OF War Root, at Southhamp-
ton, L. L; Postmaster-General Smith,
at Philadelphia; Secretary Long. at
Buckfield, Me-; Senator Fairbanks, at
Indianapolis; r. A. Alger, at Detroit;
Senator Plat, of New York. and the
governors Of New York, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas,
South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and
Louisiana; also Abner Mckinley, of
Colorado, brother Of the President.
President MeKInIey's Life.
William Mckinley, tWenty-fifth
President of the United States, was
born at Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio,
Jan. 20, 1S43. His ancestors were OF
Scotch-Irish descent, and came to this
country about a century and a half
ago. William Mckinley, father of the
President, married, in 1929, Nancy
Campbell Allison, who was of English
and Scotch-German descent The
President is the seventh of their nine
children. Iron manufacturing and
molding was the trade OF the elder
Mckinley and of his father. They
were men of strong character and abil-
ity, devout members of the Methodist
Church, and in politics ardent Whig
and Republican. The father Of the
President lived to see his son Governor
of Ohio, and his mother saw him
President She died Dec II, 1897, at
the age OF S8 Williams education was
begun in the public schools of Niles,
but when he was years old the family
moved to Portland, Mahoning County,
Ohio, where his schooling was contin-
ued in Union Seminary. He remained
here until he entered Allegheny Col
lege, Meadville, Pa, in 1860. Soon after
this, although he was fond of athletic
sports, his health failed on account Of
overstudy. Upon recovery he became
a clerk in the Poland postofice, and
held this position when the civil war
broke out in 1861. June IL of that
year he enlisted as a private in Com
pany E OF the Twenty-third Ohio Vol
unteer Infantry.
This organization became a famous
regiment, and numbered among its Of
ficers and men General W. S. Rose
Grams, General r. B. Hayes (who be-
came President of the United States in
| 1870, General E. P. Scammon, General
James NJ. COmIey and many other we'll
known men. The regiment saw active
service throughout almost the entire
war. Mckinley served on the stats OF
hayes, Crook and Hancock
| The four years of army life proved
beneficial to the young soldier, who
was much stronger physically at the
close of the war than at its beginning
OF his military record it has been stat
! ed that Mckinley, both as private and
officer, in The commissary department
was courageous, clear-headed and self
possessed. For services rendered in the
winter camp at Fayetteville he re-
| ceived his first promotion, becoming
a commissary sergeant, April Is, 1862
On the Field of Battle
Feb. z, 1863, while at Camp Piatt, he
was promoted to first lieutenant, anC
July % Of the following year, when
he was 81 years Of age. he was made
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