Name/Title
McKinley's Late Home Canton, OhioEntry/Object ID
95.01.446mTags
1900sDescription
Colored stereoscopic view of the McKinley Campaign home in at 715 Market Avenue North, Canton, Ohio. The view on the front features the McKinley home.
The back features the following text:
"A rather plain home for the President of the United States, but in keeping with the democratic simplicity of Mr. McKinley and his beloved wife. On the piazza of this cottage and on the lawn spreading in front of it, William McKinley used to receive the delegates who came to greet him or to express the admiration or the congratulations of his fellow citizens at the numerous occasions when they had elected him to an office of trust, and to this spot retired his widow when he succumbed to the wound inflicted by a half crazy, poor, ignorant fanatic, who did not know what he was doing. Canton will ever be proud of her illustrious citizen, in whose honor they have erected an elaborate, fine monument, worthy of the eminent statesman and patriot. Canton is a very industrious city of about 35,000 inhabitants, with woolen mills, iron foundries, factories of agricultural machines, and with a college (St. Vincent's). It is surrounded by fine wheat fields, and coal mines and limestone quarries are nearby"Collection
StoneAcquisition
Accession
95.01.446Source or Donor
Stone, GladysAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
STONE