The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-09-20
STORY OF McKINLEY'S LIFE
His Career From Boyhood Until He
Reached the Highest Office in
the Gift of the Nation.

w Imam MCKINNEY was DOrl
January go, 1S43, at the it'll
Village of Niles, Trumbull County
Ohio, where the long two story
frame building-once a country
store and dwelling-in which b,
first opened his eyes, remained
standing until 1895. Then i
was torn down, and all its availa
bic timber turned into canes
which were sold throughout tbs
country as souvenirs.
His ancestory was Scotch Irish
on his fathers side, while on his
mothers side cher name was Nan
cy Campbell Allison) it was En-
glish and Scotch German. The
McKinleys Tor McKinlays, as they
called the name) emigrated early
enough to have sons who took pa
triotic part in the Revolutionary
War. The presidents great grand
father, David Mckinley, native
of Pennsylvania, was an enlisted
soldier in the Continental Army
from 1776 to ITS, participating
in the capture of Paulus Hook and
in the engagements of Amboy and
Chester Hill. This Mckinley en-
igrated to Ohio in 1914, and died
there in 1910, at the age of So
years, leaving numerous descend
ants, who have ever since been
identified with that State. They
all appear to have been men of ma
tive ability, strong convictions,
and decided partisanship, ever
tenacious of their political and re-
ligious convictions. Not, indeed,
that they always agreed in politics,
but whether they numbered them
selves among adversaries of Henry
Clay or Andrew Jackson, they
we're always steadfast in their par
ty loyalty.
PRESIDENT WAS SEVENTH CHILD.
1t was among such people and
of them that William Mckinley,
ST., the father of the President,
was born in 1907. In 1929 he
married Nancy Campbell Allison,
by whom he had nine children.
William was the seventh. Father
and grandfather alike we're iron
manufacturers or furnace men,
the former being manager of the
furnace near New Wilmington,
Lawton County, Pa, for twenty
one years, and during all that time
the father Of the President drove
every Saturday from his Ohio
home returning on Monday to his
duties at the furnace. He was a
devout Methodist, a stanch Wing
and Republican, and an ardent adj
vocate of a protective tariff-all of
which traits he transmitted to his
son.
The boy was originally intended
for the ministry, and it is said that
his mother confidently looked for
ward to his becoming a bishop.
Probably he would have realized
her ambition had not the fate
wilIed that he should become q
lawyer. He received his first edu
cation at the public school In Niles.
When he was nine years old the
family removed to Poland, o., a
place noted in the State for its
educational advantages. Here
William was placed in Union Sem
mary, where he pursued his stud
les until he was III, when he en-
tered the junior class, and could
easily have graduated next year,
but that unremitting application
to study undermined his health,
and he was forced to return home.
AT these institutions he had been
especially proficient in mathemat-
les and the languages, and was &C
knowIedged to be the best debater
in the literary societies. He had
early manifested strong religious
traits, had joined the Methodist
church at the age of 16 and had