New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-29
N 5. M'KIuLEY
PASSES AWAY
WIDOW OF MARTYRED PREsl-
DENT SINKS PEACEFULLY
INTO ETERN Al SLEEP.
Her Beautiful Life hough an Invalid
for Thirty Years She Was a Constant
Help and inspiration to Her Illus.
band.

Mckinley died at 1:O5 O clock Sunday
afternoon. The transition from life to
death was SO peaceful and gradual
that it was with difficulty that the
attending doctors noted when dissolu-
ton came.
There was no struggle, no pain. Mrs.
Mckinley never knew of the efforts
made for days to prolong her life, nor
of the solicitous hope against hope OF
her sister and other relatives for her
recovery.
At the Mckinley home when death
came there were present Secretary
Cortelyou, Mr.. and Mrs. M. @. Barber,
Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day,
Justice and Mrs. William R. Day,
Doctors Portmann and Rixey and the
nurses.
Mrs. Mckinley lived hours longer
| than we expected said the secre-
tary.
"Her vitality was wonderful = said
DR.. Portmann
In National Mausoleum.
The body of Mrs. Mckinley will be
| placed in the vault in West Lawn
cemetery which holds the body Of
her husband, until the completion OF
| the national mausoleum on Monu-
ment hill, when both baskets will be
transferred to receptacles in that
| tomb.
From numerous friends of the de-
| ceased Mrs. Barber this evening re-
ceived kilograms of coincidence on
the death of her sister. Among them
were kilograms from President Roose-
welt and Vice President Fairbanks.
Thirty Years an Invalid.
Mrs. McKinley's life of almost six
ty years had been made familiar to
the nation by the fact that for over
thirty years she was an invalid.
Through all this she showed an I'M
wavering faith in the career of her
husband and constantly encouraged
and helped him. She believed that
his star of destiny would never set
until he had become president and
for more than quarter of century
cherished that belief. ~
After President McKinley's death
she expressed a desire to- join him
and prayed day by day that she
might die. Later, however, she fire.
quently told friends that she desired
to live until the completion of the
Mckinley mausoleum, which is the
Gift of the nation, and which is to be
dedicated on Monument Hill Sept. 81
next.
Her Life.
Ida Saxton Mckinley was born il
Canton June 8, 1947. James A. Sax
ton, her father, was a progressive
banker and his wife woman of ex
traordinary culture. Ida Saxton wa
reared in a home of comfort and ease
After attending Canton schools, sh
was pupil at a private school a
Delhi, New York. Later she went t.
a Cleveland academy and finished he
education at Brook Hall seminary
Media, Pa, where she spent tire
years. Part of the years of he
young womanhood were spent in tn
Stark County bank which belonge
to her father. On several occasion
she had charge of the Institution.
On Jan. %, 1871, William McKinle
and Ida Saxton were united in maj
: riage. After an Eastern trip, th
McKinleys purchased the home 0
: North Market street, which in late
h years became famous as the McKil
i ley cottage
$ It was during the short sojourn
g this home that Mrs. Mckinley
'. health broke down under the burde
: of grief. There were born to the,
10 two daughters, Kate, on Christm;
>. day, 1871, and Ida, on April l, 1877
A But the mothers heart was broke
se when Ida passed away in Angus
3. 1878, Mrs. McKinley's mother havir
$, died the month before the child w
born. Kate, the first born, lived f
- three and one-half years. Then
A was that the almost heart
wife became an invalid
A Devoted Wife.
Her life as the wife of William M
Kinley was a most happy and deve
ed one. They never kept hous,
+ while he was in congress, because
4 her invalid state. She, however, &