William R. Day
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
William R. Day
From Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue
ca. 1900
Cyanotype
Image: 10.7 x 9 cm
Mount: 16.5 x 10.6 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
Inscriptions verso (pencil): Day [underlined]
(printed in black on applied newsprint): NO. 20. / WILIAM R. DAY. / (Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy / to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue.) / William R. Day, Secretary of State, was appointed to the position of / Assistant Secretary and later to the position of Secretary by President / McKinley upon personal knowledge of him as a friend and a man of bus- / iness, and also as a neighbor in the city of Canton, Ohio. He was born / there in 1858. He was educated in the village schools, and finally at / Michigan university, where he graduated in 1878. He became Judge of / the Court of Common Pleas without opposition at the polls in 1886. He / had held no other public office, although appointment as Circuit Judge / had been offered to him by President Harrison, until he accepted the ap- /pointment of President McKinley in the Secretaryship of Staet of the / country. For a whole year he bore the responsibility of the conducting / of the affairs of the department without the title of premier. He suc- / ceded to the position of Secretary upon the resignation of John Sher- / man on April 25. Throughout the country this appointment was consid- / ered a welcome recognition of merit. He has been appointed by Presi- / dent McKinley a member of the Peace commission, and when his labors / at Paris are ended he will probably he [sic] appointed Judge of the Sixth cir- / cuit of Ohio.
(printed in black on applied newsprint): NO. 20. / WILIAM R. DAY. / (Sketches of Heroes of the American Army and Navy / to Accompany The Journal's Photographs in Blue.) / William R. Day, Secretary of State, was appointed to the position of / Assistant Secretary and later to the position of Secretary by President / McKinley upon personal knowledge of him as a friend and a man of bus- / iness, and also as a neighbor in the city of Canton, Ohio. He was born / there in 1858. He was educated in the village schools, and finally at / Michigan university, where he graduated in 1878. He became Judge of / the Court of Common Pleas without opposition at the polls in 1886. He / had held no other public office, although appointment as Circuit Judge / had been offered to him by President Harrison, until he accepted the ap- /pointment of President McKinley in the Secretaryship of Staet of the / country. For a whole year he bore the responsibility of the conducting / of the affairs of the department without the title of premier. He suc- / ceded to the position of Secretary upon the resignation of John Sher- / man on April 25. Throughout the country this appointment was consid- / ered a welcome recognition of merit. He has been appointed by Presi- / dent McKinley a member of the Peace commission, and when his labors / at Paris are ended he will probably he [sic] appointed Judge of the Sixth cir- / cuit of Ohio.
