Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-09-25
THE LATE PRESIDENT

President of the United States, was
born at Niles, Trumbull county,
Ohio, January 90, 1S43. His an
cestors were of Scotch Irish descent,
and came to this country about GEN.
fury aud half age. William Mo-
kinley, father of the President, mar
ried in 1929. Nancy CAMPBELL Allison.
who was of English aud Scottish Ger
man descent, The President is the
seventh Of their nine children. Iron
manufacturing and moulding was the
trade of the elder Mckinley and his
father.
The father of the President lived
to see his son Governor of Ohio, aud
his mosher saw him President She
died December II, 1897, at the age
of lightweight.
He entered Allegheny College,
Mesdville, Pa, in 1860. He became
a clerk in the Poland postoffioe, and
held this position when the civil war
broke out in 1861. On June IL, of
that year, be enlisted as q private in
Company e of the Twenty third Ohio
Volunteer Infantry and during the
war sttainded the rank of Mayor.
Upon leaving the army be returned
to his home in Poland aud began the
study of law. He settled In Canton,
o., which has since been his home,
and soon attracted attention as u law
yer of much ability.
In 1876 be was elected to Congress
and was returned in 1878, 1880,
1882, 1884, 1886, and 1888. He
was defeated in 1890.
While in Congress Mr.. Mckinley
served on = committee on the revision
of the laws, the Judiciary committee,
the committee on the expenditure of
the Postoffice department, and the
committee on rules, aud when Gener.
al Harrison was nominated for the
presidency, Mr.. Mckinley WAS as
signed to the committee ON ways and
means in his place, and he continued
to serve OH the last named committee
until the end of his congressional
career, being chairman of that com
mittee during the Fifty-first Con
gress and author of the tariff bill
which bore his name.
In 1891 be WAS elected governor
of Ohio by majority of 81 900 over
ex Governor James +. Campbell,
democrat, and WAS re elected in 1898.
At the expiration of his term he
returned TO Canton.
He was nominated for President
on the first ballot at the republican
national convention at st. Louis
in June, 1896, the vote being: AcKIn
ley, 66l1; Reed, S4l; QUAY, 613:
Morton, 5S; Allison, 353. In the
November election following the to-
tai popular vote was l3.93O,942, of
which his electors received 7,1O4,779,
being 3 plurality of 6O1,S54, over
those cast for William Jennings Bry-
an, of Nebraska, and majority over
all candidates of Sll,742. The vote
in the electoral college was All for
Mckinley and 176 for Bryan.
Mr.. Mckinley was renominated for
the presidency by acclamstion at the
republican national cou vention held
at Philadelphis June %, 1900. The
total popular vote in the election
following was l3,97O,3OO. Mr.. Nc
Kinley received 7,2O6,677, as against
6,374,379 cast for William j. Bryan.
His majority over all candidates
in the popular vote was $4,000.
The electoral vote for Mckinley
was 292, for Bryan 1856.
The President was iuaupurated
for his second term on March 4 last
with Vice President Roosevelt.
Major Mckinley was married on
January 25, 1871, to Miss Ida Saxton,
of Canton, daughter of James A. and
Catherine Dewslt Saxton Two
daughters were born to them, one ia
1873, bat both died in early child
hood.