William McKinley
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
William McKinley
From Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy / to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue
ca. 1898
Cyanotype
Image: 11.1 x 7.9 cm
Mount: 16.4 x 10.7 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
Inscriptions verso (printed in black on applied newsprint): NO. 1. / WILLIAM McKINLEY. / (Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy / to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue.) / William McKinley was born of Scotch parents at Niles, Trumbull / county, Ohio, February 26, 1844, and was educated at Poland acad- / emy. When the civil war broke out in 1861 he entered as a private in the / Union army, and rose to the rank of major. He afterwards entered the / legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1868, practicing at Can- / ton, O. Entering the House of Representatives in 1877, he soon made his / mark as a zealous and able Protectionist, and ultimately became chair- / man of the Ways and Means committee, which passed the tariff measure / known as the McKinley act o f1890. In November of that year he was / defeated for Congress, but in 1893 was elected Governor of Ohio by a / tremendous majority. From that date onward he was regarded as a pos- /sible candidate for the Presidency, and in 1896 he was nominated and tri- / umphantly elected. His administration, in the conduct of the war espec- / ially, has been masterly and statesmanlike. President McKinley married / a daughter of the proprietor of the Canton (Ohio) Repository, who has / for years been an invalid, nursed by her husband with loving solicitude. / Their only child, a daughter, died several years ago.
