. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . e Never Idle — Assassination of thePresident — His Last Days on Earth — His Patience, Fortitude, andResignation — His Last Words — His Death and Burial — Beloved ByAll — Devotion of Mrs. McKinley — A Grief Stricken World — Arrest,Conviction, and Execution of the Murderer. OR the first
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . e Never Idle — Assassination of thePresident — His Last Days on Earth — His Patience, Fortitude, andResignation — His Last Words — His Death and Burial — Beloved ByAll — Devotion of Mrs. McKinley — A Grief Stricken World — Arrest,Conviction, and Execution of the Murderer. OR the first time in the history of our country aPresident was given a second term without suc-ceeding himself, when ex-President Grover Cleve-land defeated Benjamin Harrison in the presi-dential contest of 1S92. In the following March,President and Mrs. Cleveland for the second time tookup their residence in the Executive Mansion. An accountof their reign has been given in a previous chapter andcovers both terms. President Cleveland was succeeded byWilliam McKinley, Jr., who was elected in 1896, andentered the White House in March, 1897, as twenty-fourthPresident of the United States. In the early forties President McKinleys father wasmanaging an iron furnace near Niles, Ohio, a settlement of (721). 722 A boys energy and ambition. very few inhabitants then, and it was there, in a long, two-story dwelling, that, on January 29, 1843, William McKin-ley, Jr., was born. The building served the double purposeof a country store, with dwellings above. It is still stand-ing, and just over the vine-clad entrance to the second storyis the part of the house where the future President first sawthe light of day. He was the seventh of nine McKinleys were regarded by their neighbors as possess-ing superior intelligence, and were respected accordingly. The boys were always provided with something to dofor the comfort and support of the family. Wood was thefuel of those days,
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