Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-10-11
A M'KINLEY CHRONOLOGY.
important Events in the Life of the Late President
in the Order of Their Date.

1884. Jan. %. William Mckinley, son
Kinley, is born at Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, being the seventh son Of
a family of nine children.
1852. The Mckinley family removes to
Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio, where
til he is II.
1853. Becomes a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in Poland.
1860. Enters the junior class in Ale
gheny College, Meadville, Pa, but poor
health prevents the completion of the
course. Subsequently teaches in q pub
lie school near Poland and later be-
comes a clerk in the Poland postofice.
1861. June IL. Enlists as a private in
Company u of the Tw~enty-third Ohio
volunteer infantry.
1862. April 10. Promoted to commissary
sergeant while in the winters camp at
Fayetteville, w. Va.
1862. September "a. Promoted to sec
ond lieutenant, in recognition Of SER
vices at the battle of Antietam. Wins
the highest esteem of the colonel of the
regiment, Rutherford B. Hayes, and
becomes a member of his staff.
1868. Feb. z. Promoted to first lieu-
tenant.
1864. July %. Promoted to captain for
g%allantry at the battle Of Kernstown,
near Winchester, Va.
1864. Oct. II. First vote for President
cast, while on a march. for Abraham
Lincoln.
1864. Shortly after the battle of Cedar
Creek (Oct. 19 Capt. Mckinley serves
on the STATS of Gen. George Crook and
Gen. Winfield S. Hancock.
1865. Assigned as acting assistant adju-
tant general on the staff of Gen. Sam
uel S. Carroll, commanding the vet
eran reserve corps at Washington.
1865. March Is. Commissioned by Pres
ident Lincoln as major by brevet in the
volunteer United States army, "for gall
liant and meritorious services at the
battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek and
Fishers Hill"
1865. July 26. Mustered out of The army
with his regiment, having never been
absent from his command on sick leave
during more than four years service.
1865. Returns to Poland, and at once
begins the study of law.
1866. Enters the Albany (N. W law
school.
1867. Admitted to the bar at Warren,
Ohio, in March. Accepting the advice
of an elder sister teaching in Canton,
Ohio, he begins the practice of law in
Canton, and makes that place his home.
1860. Elected prosecuting attorney of
Stark County on the Republican ticket,
although the county had usually been
Democratic.
1871. Jan. %. Marries Miss Ida Sax
ton of Canton. (Two daughters born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Neutrality-suspicious. in
1871 and Ida in 1S13-are both lost in
early childhood.)
1871. Fails of reelection as prosecuting
attorney by forty-five votes. and for the
next five years devotes himself sue
cessfully to the practice Of law, and
becomes a leading member of the bar
of Stark County.
1872. Though not a candidate, very ac-
tive as u campaign speaker in the
Grant-Greeley presidential campaign.
1870. Especially active and conspicuous
as a %campaigner in the closely contested
State election in which Rutherford B.
Hayes is elected Governor.
1876. Elected member Of the House of
Representatives. by $500 majority his
friend Hayes bsing elected to the presi-
dency.
1878. Reelected to Congress by 1924
majority. his district in Ohio having
been gerrymandcred to his d~isadvan-
tage by u Democratic Legislature.
1880. Reelected to Congress by 3,571
majority. Appointed a member Of the
ways and means committee, to succeed
President-elect Garfield.
1882. The Republicans suffer reverses
throughout the country in the congress
sional elections, and Mckinley is re-
elected by a majority of only eight.
1884. Prominent in opposition tn the
proposed Morrison tariff in Congress.
1884. As delegate at large to the Re
publican national convention in Chi
cage, actively supports James G. Blaine
for the presidential nomination.
1884. Reelected to Congress by a ma
jority Of 1000. although his district had