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McKIM, Randolph Harrison, clergyman, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 15, 1842; son of John S. and Catherine Lilburne (Harrison) McKira; grandson of John and Margaret (Telfair) McKim and of Randolph and Mary R. Harrison of Clifton, Va., and a descendant of Benjamin Harrison of Surrey, Va. (1635). He was grad- uated from the University of Virginia in 1861 and was admitted to the diaconate of the Protes- tant Episcopal church in 1864 and to the priest- hood in 1866. He served during the civil war in the Confederate army, first as private soldier, afterward as staff officer, and upon the close of the war he became assistant rector of Emmanuel church, Baltimore, Md. He subsequently served as rector of churches at Portsmouth and Alexan- dria, Va.; Harlem, New York city; New Orleans, La., and in 1889 became rector of Epiphany church, Washington, D.C. He is the autlior of: A Vindication of Protestant Principles {1H79); The Nature of the Christian Ministry (1880); Fu- ture Punishment (1883); Bread in the Desert and Other Sermons (1887); Christ and Modeini Unbe- lief (1893); UoXIITat the Bar of History (1897); Present Day Problems of Christian Thought ( 1900).

McKINLEV, Ida Saxton, wife of President McKinley, was born in Canton; Ohio, in June, 1847; daughter of James Asbury and Catlierine (Dewalt) Saxton, and granddaughter of John Saxton, founder in 1815 and for fifty-five years

proprietor of the Ohio Repository, i)ublished at Canton. Both the Saxtons and the De- walts were among the earliest settlers of Canton. Ida Saxton was educated at schools in Cleveland and at Brook Hall seminary. Media, Pa. She visited Europe for six months in 1869, and soon after lier return became cjishier in her father's bank in Canton. She Presbyterian church

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was a member of of Canton an<l was married from that clairch to Maj. William McKinley, Jan. 25, 1871, re- ceiving from her father as a wedding gift a handsome house in Canton. Their first cliild, Ida, born Dec. 25, 1871, lived to the age of four, and their second child, Catherine, died in infancy. The shock attending the death of her children and that of her mother, which occurred soon after, resulted in a nervous disease which left Mrs. McKinley an invalid for life and able to

walk only with the aid of a supporting arm.. She was a resident of Washington during her husband's service as representative in congress, 1877-91, and during his gubernatorial terms she resided at Columbus. As mistress of the White House during his administration of national af- fairs, notwithstanding her pliysical illness, she successfully dispensed the hospitality demanded from her position. Mr. and Mrs. McKinlej' both became members of the First Methodist church in Canton, and while in Washington attended the Foundry church. While on a visit to Cali- fornia in 1901 she was suddenly prostrated and the contemplated trip was consequently aban- doned in San Francisco. She was taken to her home in Canton where she so far regained her accustomed health as to be able to return to the White House and in September, 1901, to accom- pany her husband to the Pan-American exposi- tion at Buffalo, N.Y., where she was his compan- ion and the chief object of his solicitude in his dying hour. As the widow of the martyr Presi- dent she returned with his body to Canton, Sept. 18, 1901.

McKINLEV, John, jurist, was born in Cul- peper county, Va., May, 1780. He engaged in the practice of law in Louisville, Ky., until after 1819, when he removed to Alabama and established himself as a lawyer in Huntsville. He was a representative in the Alabama legislature, and was elected to the U. S. senate as a Jackson Democrat in place of Isaac Pickens, the latter appointed by Gov. John Murphy to succeed Henry Chambers, who was elected to the office but died Jan. 25, 1826, before taking his seat. Mr. McKinley assumed office, Dec. 21, 1826, and served till March 3, 1831. He removed to Flor- ence, Ala., in the meantime, and served as a representative in the 23d congress, 1833-35. He was associate justice of the U.S. supreme court, 1837-52. He died in Louisville, Ky., July 19, 1852.

McKINLEY.WILLIAM, twenty-fifth President of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1843; son of William (1807-1892) and Nancy Campbell (Allison) McKinley; grandson of James (born 1783) and Mary (" Polly ") (Rose) McKinley, and of Abner and Ann (Campbell) Allison; great-grandson of David (1755-1840) and Hannah C. (Rose) (1757-1840) McKinley and of Andrew Rose, an ironmaster of Bucks county, Pa., who was sent home from the Revolutionary army to make cannon and bullets; greats-grand- son of John (1728-1779) and Margaret McKinley; and great'-grandson of David and EJsther Mc- Kinley, who came from Dervock House, county Antrim, Ireland, to New Castle, Del., in 1743, with their three sons, John, David, and Stephen, and one daughter, Mary (who married Samuel Gor- don), and settled on 316 acres of land in what be>