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Show McKJnley' 'Biography. James McKlnley, tho president's nn-cMtor, nn-cMtor, landeil In this country about 1713, and settled later In Chnnccfurd Township, York county, Pa, where IlMUd McKlnley, greMit-grundfatlicr of tha president, was born In May, 1755. ! " Tho rtcords of tho Tension llurtuu uliow that Davlil McKlnley was a sol dier in the revolution and participated In the capture of l'aulus Hook and tho , engagements of Ambuy and Chester IIIII. lie died In 1810, In Ohio, at tliu ii ge of clghty-IUci. A son, James McKlnley, Mc-Klnley, muted to Columbiana county, Ohio, In 1&09. At that time William, bis sun, born In l'lno Township, Merger Mer-ger county, l'a, wat two years old Jamos McKlnley was an Iron manufacturer manu-facturer or furnace man, and Ills son William followed the same vocation, When William was twenty-two jears old he married Nancy Allison of Can-i Can-i ton, O , th could having ulna child area, of whom William Jr. the president, presi-dent, was the seventh. William Me.-i Me.-i Klnley, Dr., died In November, 1892, ( having lived to witness the rise ot his con from a tchoot teacher through ; liosts of national promlnenco to be (J governor of Ohio. ! The president was born at Nlles, i Trumbull county, O , on January 29, j 3813. He attended the public schools ! In that town until he was nine years old, at which time his father moved I to Poland, Mahoning county, O , where I j tha future president entered Union ' Seminary, pursuing his studies In that Institution until ho was seventeen I I jears old He Is said to havo excelled ) In roathtniiitlrs nnd languages, and to j have bested nil his feltow-students In ( debating the public questions of thai day. In 1800 he was sent to Allegheny col-ft col-ft lege, Mcadvlllc, l'a., but gava up his a coursa after a few months on account ' kj of poor health, After n period of rest ' ! lie became a teacher In tho public S schools of tho Kerr district, near Po land, having joined tho Methodist Episcopal church In Poland. In the spring of 18C1 he was a clerk In tho postoflleo. at Poland, which position ha cavo up to enlist nt Columbus, on June 11 of that ear, In Company U i of tho Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. William McKlnley twice refuted the nomination fur president previous to the time when on the first ballot at the Itrpubllcan Nullou.il convention held In Ht. Iiuls In 1t9C hn was dually nominated and accepted. Ills first refusal re-fusal was at the convention of 18SS, when ho supported Mr. Sherman, tu whom ho was pledged, forbidding thu uso of his uamo at a, tlmo when his formal assent or negative acquiescence was all that was nccoSfc.il y to sccuiu his own nomination. At tha ensuing contention of 1892 ho received 182 voles for tho nomination, hlu namo not having been presented, as It was well known ho was nn ardent supporter support-er of Harrison nnd would Immediately nllhdiaw his namo should It bavo been proposed Ilelng tha permanent chairman of the convention, ho was greatly embarrassed by tho efforts ot lil (important to mska hint the presidential presi-dential cnndldate, and, leatlng tho chair on tho announcement of the result re-sult of the first ballot, innda a motion to inaka the nomination of Mr. Harrison Harri-son unanimous. His motion was carried. car-ried. On April 1C, 1890, McKlnley Introduced Intro-duced Into the Houso the general tariff tar-iff measure which has since been known as the "McKlnley bill." J'or four months tho measure had been under un-der consideration, and every interest In tha country, Including manufacturers, manufactur-ers, laborers, merchants, farmers, Importers, Im-porters, ngents, free traders, nnd protectionists, pro-tectionists, had beon freely heard, tha minority having been given as good nn opportunity tu present their views as had the majority. Ills speech on May 7 In support of the measura sustained his reputation as an orutor and dls-paislonata dls-paislonata advocate, nnd seldom has such hearty applauso been accorded any leader as greeted him upon thu conclusion of bis address. McKlnlcy's home Ufa has been that ot the representative American, and almost Ideal. Ho married on January 23, Miss Ida Haxton, granddaughter of John Baxton, for sixty ycats edllor of tho Ohio Itcposltory, still published at Canton. Two girls, Clirtsllno Ida nnd Kate, were born to Mr. and Mrs. McKlnley, Mc-Klnley, both ot them dying at early ages. |
