page_title: September 1901
section_title: September 14, 1901 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1901 / September 14, 1901 (Saturday)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1901:
context_section_description: William McKinley, 58, the 25th President of the United States, died of gangrene poisoning from his injuries at 2:15 in the morning, at the home of his friend John G. Milburn, at 1168 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo.  All of the members of his Cabinet, with the exception of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, were present when he passed away.  The postmortem report listed the cause of death as "Gangrene of both walls of stomach and pancreas following the gunshot wound."  
  In a remote area of New York state, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt had been woken up shortly after midnight with two more telegrams and, at 12:30 in the morning, rode on a horse-drawn buckboard wagon driven by David Hunter, the superintendent of the Tarawas Club, ten miles downhill toward the nearest telephone, in the lower clubhouse, and called the  railroad station at North Creek, New York where Mr. Loeb was waiting, and departed on the second leg of his journey at 2:10 in the morning in a wagon driven by Orrin Kellogg.  "They had not made ten strides," a reporter would write later, before Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States by the death of William McKinley.  A third driver, Mike Cronin, met him at the Alden Lair Lodge at 3:05 and took him on the dangerous road on the 16 mile trip to North Creek, arriving at 4:48, where Roosevelt was informed (by William Loeb) that he was now the President.  They boarded the special train to Albany and then to Buffalo.  The train arrived at Buffalo by 2:00 in the afternoon and, after offering his condolences to McKinley's family, Roosevelt went to the home of his friend, Ansley Wilcox, at 641 Delaware Avenue, where he was sworn in as the 26th President of the United States by U.S. District Judge John R. Hazel at 3:25. At the age of 42, Roosevelt became the youngest man to ever serve as the U.S. President.
  In China, the Imperial Court issued an edict directing that the academies in all of the Empire's provincial capitals were to be converted to colleges, and to offer both Confucian studies and a Western-world education.
  What is believed to have been the first bodybuilding competition in history was presented by German athlete Eugen Sandow, before 15,000 people at Royal Albert Hall in London.  The "Great Competition" was judged by Sandow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Sir Charles Bennett Lawes.
caption: President McKinley
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