Name/Title
McKinley National Memorial Association CertificateEntry/Object ID
2010.1.2205Description
This is a 12 in. long x 10 in. high paper certificate. This was issued to those who contributed to the building fund for the erection of the McKinley National Memorial at Canton, Ohio.
A leaf banner stretches across the top with a circular photograph of President McKinley located beneath with the words that read "God's Will Not Ours Be Done." A picture of the White House sits on his right and his home in Canton on his left. Lady Liberty Stands to the left holding a spray of laurel leaves above McKinley"s head.
The certificate reads as follows:
"The McKinley National Memorial Association.
(picture of eagle) This Certifies That (picture of eagle)
Margery St. John
has contributed to the fund for the erection of the National Memorial at Canton, Ohio in honor of William McKinley.
William R. Day, President
M A Hanna, Vice-President
Myron T. Herrick, Treasurer
Ryerson Ritchie, Secretary"
This is all surrounded by a 1/4 in. border.
"Tiffany & Co." is located in the lower left corner of the certificate. Beneath the bottom of the border is written the words "Copyright 1902 By The McKinley National Memorial Association.
The reverse side shows stains, glue residue an cloth remnants adhered to each corner.
More information:
Tiffany was once a stationary store which may also account for their design and printing of this particular document.
"In 1837 New York became the proving ground for 25-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, who opened a “stationery and fancy goods” store with a $1,000 advance from Tiffany’s father." *
*Taken from: http://press.tiffany.com/ViewBackgrounder.aspx?backgrounderId=33
Amador Ledger, Volume 1901, Number 27, 27 December 1901
McKinley National Memorial.
Judge William R. Day, ex-secretary of state and president of the McKinley National Memorial Association, has issued the following statement to the public adopted by the trustees at their meeting in Washington, December 7th: The McKinley National Memorial Association was organized by the immediate personal friends of President McKinley to afford an opportunity for the people of the United States to express their personal love and devotion to the late president by the erection of a fitting memorial at his grave. The trustees were appointed by the president of the United States, the first meeting for organization having been held at Cleveland, October 10th. It is the distinct purpose of the association to erect such a memorial as will fittingly typify those exalted qualities of character, simplicity, dignity, devotion to duty, and high ideals that were so eminently exemplified in his life and purposes. This memorial is to rise above the grave at Canton, Ohio, where he will finally rest in accord with his own expressed wish.
In bringing the purposes of this association before the people, the earlier work has been necessarily one of organization. This has progressed rapidly and satisfactorily. It is desired that an organization be perfected in every state and territory, and local organization in cities, towns, and rural districts, with a committee in charge working in connection with the state auxiliary is urged. The public should be given the fullest opportunity to subscribe.
The trustees desire to express their deep sense of obligation to the press of the country for its earnest support thus far, and to recommend that all newspapers act as agents for the receipt of subscriptions.
By a resolution passed by the American Bankers' Association, all banks have been designated depositors for subscriptions. All postmasters will receive and forward moneys, and all express companies will issue money orders free of charge, and, when necessary, forward money free.
In foreign countries the ambassadors, ministers, and consuls of the United States will receive and forward subscriptions.
In every case the name and address of the subscriber should be forwarded to the treasurer, Myron C. Herrick, Cleveland, Ohio, for preservation in the permanent archives of the association, and in order that souvenir certificates may be sent to each. The souvenir certificate adopted by the trustees will be worthy of preservation as a work of art and as evidence of the holder's participation in the erection of the national memorial. It has engraved upon it a portrait of President McKinley and, in shadow, pictures of the president's home at Canton, the Capitol, and White House.
The public is especially cautioned against any enterprise attempting to make capital out of the sentiments of affection which inspired the desire to rear at the grave of our late president a memorial which shall fittingly honor his memory. It is the desire of the trustees that all contributions shall be the free-will offering of the people, and they respectfully request the public to discourage all propositions which may seem to have as their object the obtaining of money by giving all or part of the proceeds to the memorial fund. The public is hereby notified that the McKinley National Memorial Association has no connection with or relation to any other association or to any enterprise of a commercial nature.
After a conference at this meeting with the representatives of the William McKinley Memorial Arch Association of Washington, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That it be the sense of the trustees of the McKinley Memorial Association that the field of popular subscription should be left to it for raising the sum necessary to provide a suitable memorial to the late president at Canton, where his body lies; and that this association should join with the William McKinley Memorial Arch Association of Washington in memorializing Congress to erect a national memorial at the Capitol of our country to commemorate his services to the nation.
The Arch Association acquiesced in this resolution and has properly ceased to solicit popular subscriptions, leaving the field to the McKinley National Memorial Association, through which the people of the United States will build a memorial of affection at the last resting place of their beloved president, William McKinley.
The officers and trustees of the McKinley National Memorial Association are:
William R. Day, president, Canton.
M. A. Hanna, vice-president, Washington.
Myron T. Herrick, treasurer, Cleveland.
Ryerson Ritchie, secretary, Cleveland.
Cornelius N. Bliss, New York.
Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia.
W. Murray Crane, Boston.
Alexander H. Revell, Chicago.
Charles W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis.
Henry M. Duffield, Detroit.
George B. Corteyou, Washington.
Ell Torrance, Minneapolis.
William A. Lynch, Canton.
John G. Milburn, Buffalo.
William McConway, Pittsburg.
David R. Francis, St. Louis.
Robert J. Lowry, Atlanta.
Henry C. Payne, Milwaukee.
Henry T. Scott, San Francisco.
Franklin Murphy, Newark.
E. S. Hammond, Memphis.
E. W. Bloomindale, New York.**
** Taken from The California Digital Newspaper Collection: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=AL19011227.2.46Collection
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