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Show ANCESTORS WERE CATHOLICS. McKinley's Cousin Says They Were of the Faith. The conversion, baptism and confirmation confirm-ation of Captain Arthur S. McKinley, first cousin of President McKin'ev is announced. The Loretto Magazine I makes the following statement of the facts in the case: "At the 6:30 o'clock Mass in the chapel of the Sisters of Loretto, St Marv's tf" 21y',.Denver' Feb: 26- Cantain Arthur Ar-thur S. McKinley. first cousin of our received his firnt communion. commun-ion. The captain was baptized in the Denver cathedral a few davs previous, and requested the privilege of making his flrsv communion in t chapel of the Loretto Sisters. nn'Jhl Sien invited the gentleman and his wife to breakfast with the Matt nhe acadey Parlor after Mass. and during breakfast a Sbi'er smilingly asked if the conversion was ?ha retiJPin to the faith of his fore-n-vir, JT'eP16 ca-ntain replied: -Yes. mv grandfather, and. of e,,Q m, ' " , j...: , course, tne nresi- our fathe's were brothers, Z f aunch oId Catholic of Be'fas.? La wMlUt Ur fathers came to Amer. ntZ, 1 Kry y'or'nS anrl married non-S non-S L rS' 5hen feI1 flm the faiti themselves. them-selves. Later they sent for our -rand-parents. and they came to the o-d homestead in Canton, O., where the president and I were raised. I was but a child at the time, but I was DrU" at mv grandfather's death bed and though we were 100 miles from a Cathl ohc church, he requested my father and uncle to send for a priest. The nrien did not arrive in time to assist the "om gentleman, but when his , e" ld Grandmother McKinley. died, she had a Catholic Driest with he' " Captain McKinley attended the mi, sicn given at the Denver cathoT . October and determined at t?S o become a Catholic He a Catholic friend at flt onWlf the sermons of the Peaalontet Fathers'" who, he heard, had a reputation for So quence. but God touched his h-art and hocyfii3 |