The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-27
Widow of Late President Nc
Kinley Passes Away While
Unconscious.
NEVER RECOVERED FROM
STROKE OF PARALYSIS
President Roosevelt and Vice.
President Fairbanks Will
Attend Funeral.

CANTON, Ohio. May 26.-Mrs. W7p
liam Mckinley, widow of the late
President, died al her home here Mt
1:05 o'clock this afternoon. For many
years Mrs. Mckinley had been an in
valid She recovered from the shock
of her husband s tragic death, but it
{ left It's mark, and when it was known
that she had suffered a stroke of par
alysis little hope was felt that she
could survive
The end came peacefully, almost inn
perceptibly. Mrs. Mckinley never knew
Of the efforts made to prolong her life,
/ or the solicitous hope against hope of
| her sister and other relatives and
| friends of her recovery.
Az the Mckinley home when death
came there were present Secretary Cor
telyou, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ G.. Barber, Mrs.
! Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day, Justice
and Mrs. William r. Day, Doctors Port
/ mann and RiXcy and the nurses.
Had Wonderful Vitality.
Mrs. Mckinley lived hours longer
| than WAS expected - said the Secretary
' Her vitality was wonderful - said Or.
! Portmann. II was by Secretary Cortel-
! YOU that tho announcement of the de-
mise was given 10 the public. As this
was flashed over the land. William Nc
y Klnley post and George D. Harter post,
/ 6. \. r.. were forming in line, and to
the strains of "The March Religioso,''
went TO the First Methodist Episcopal
J church 10 listen to the annual memorial
| address, which was given by Dr. Bux-
! ton, Mrs. Mckinley S pastor.
he funeral arrangements, so far as
| made, are that Dr. Buxton will have
charge of the services, which are to be
simple They will be held at the Nc
kinley home at clock Wednesday
Secretary Cortelyou is directing the
arrangements, and will remain here
until after the funeral Dr. Rixey left
here al 5:Ss this evening for Washing
ton, He will join President Roosevelt
and go with him ON his trip to Indian
7 apolis and Lansing this week 1t was
/ announced tonight that President Roose-
/ Welt and Secretary Loeb will arrive in
| Canton Wednesday morning to attend
the funeral services. Vice President
! Fairbanks, who had often been a house
| guest of the McKinleys, is expected To
reach here in time to attend the funeral
| service
Beside Her Husband
The body Of Mrs Mckinley will be
! placed in the vault IN West Lawn Gem
etery which holds also the body of her
husband, until the completion Of the
/ National mausoleum on Monument Hill.
when both caskets Will he transferred
! 10 receptacles in that tomb.
From numerous friends of Mrs Nc
! kinley, Mrs. Barber this evening re-
ceived kilograms of coincidence on the
! death of her sister Among them were
kilograms from President Roosevelt and
/ Vice President Fairbanks
Mrs. Mckinley S life of almost sixty
/ years had been made familiar To the
nation by the fact that more than half
! of 1T was n period of invalidsm.
I Through all this, however. she showed
firm and unwavering belief in the
career of her husband and by her
cheering words, IN spite of personal af-
! flictIons, encouraged him when there
! was darkness mt hand
She believed that his star of destiny
would never sci until he had become
| President of this land and for more
than quarter of century cherished
that belief until her hopes were real
| lZed
After President McKmlcy's death
she expressed desire TO Join him, and
prayed day BY day that she might die
Later however. she frequently told
friends that she desired 60 live until
the completion of the Mckinley mauso-
lcum, which is the gift of the nation,
and which is to be dedicated OIL Monu~
ment Hill September 50 next.
Native of Cantca.
Ida Saxton Mckinley was born in
Canton, juno s. lS47. James A. Sax
ton her father. was an intellectual and
progressive business man and banker,
his wife Il woman Of extraordinary cul-
turc and refinement. Ida SaXton was
reared in a home of comfort and ease.
After attending Canton schools. she was
a pupil at n private school at Delhi,
\. Y. Later she went to Il Cleveland
academy and finished her education at
Brook Hall Seminary, Media, Pa,
where she spent three years
Part of her Young womanhood was
spent in the Stark county bank, which
belonged To her father, On several oc
casions she had charge of the iustitu-
tion-
While she taught Sunday school in
the Presbyterian church, the Young
LAWYER, William Mckinley, was super
intcndent of the First Methodist Epis
copal Sunday school. Among many ad
mlrers and suffers the handsome Young
soldier, who had been. with Grant and
Sheridan and won distinction IN Tire
Shenandoah valley, was the favored
one.
BY James Saxton, her father, these
words were spoken TO Mckinley when
the hand of the daughter was gained;
You arc the only man ! have ever
known to whom ] would entrust my
daughter,
United in Marriage.
On January %. 1871. William Me
Kinley and Ida SaXton were united in
marriage The wedding was the first
performed in the then new Presbyterian
church
After an Eastern trip, including