William Mckinley Jr,

A man named William McKinley Jr. was born on January 29, 1843, the seventh of nine children. His Father William McKinley Sr. managed the iron foundry in town. His mom Nancy Allison McKinley was a kind character. She was very religious and her neighbors remembered her for her services to charity. Soon McKinley's parents placed their kids in school.

McKinley enjoyed being at his school. He learned Reading, Writing, and math in his one room wooden school house. At recess he would show his energy and spirit for fun, When the United States went to war with the Spanish by playing with wooden swords and wearing paper hats and marching all over the play ground. In winter he would tie blades to his shoes so he could skate. In summer he fished with a hook and string for fun. Later in the fall of 1860 17 year old McKinley went to Pennsylvania and enrolled at Allegheny College in Meadville. McKinley was studying so hard that he became sick. Sickness and money problems made him leave school. He and his cousin talked about joining the army so he went to go tell his family about joining the army.

One of McKinley's favorite sayings was "In the time of the darkest defeat victory may be near" .So he joined the army in 1861. While he was in the middle of the war they marched around and didn't see one enemy until September 10, 1861 they saw there first enemy.

At the first battle of Carnifex Ferry, West Virginia McKinley fought in the first battle in the civil war and won. The North and South had joined back and slavery had ended.

William McKinley later got married at the age of 27 to a 23 year old girl named Ida Saxton on January 25, 1871.

For their honeymoon they went to New York, after they returned from New York they both went to live in Canton.

On Christmas the couple had there first baby girl, they named her Katherine McKinley. The McKinley's were all happy until Ida McKinley became very sick. Not long after Ida gave birth to another baby but within a year the baby died. After the loss of Ida's daughter

she suffered from mental depression and a complete breakdown. Her husband watched over Ida for a while. Later 4-Year old

Katherine McKinley died of typhoid fever. After both of the children's death, William McKinley went into politics he later became a congress man. He had a friend from Ohio his name was Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes later became president. One time Hayes invited McKinley over to the Whitehouse for dinner when McKinley was leaving a man named Justice John Harland came in and saw McKinley, after McKinley left Harland told Hayes to watch him he might be president one day. After Hayes'