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...president of Pullman Co., U. S. Minister to Great Britain (1889-93) and Secretary of War (1881-85); in Washington. She outlived her husband by almost eleven years, her son Abraham II by 47. Robert Todd Lincoln was present at the assassinations of his father, Presidents Garfield and McKinley...
Fire destroyed the vacant house at Niles, Ohio where 25th President William McKinley was born...
...years ago when Elihu Root, aged 54, was an eminent corporation lawyer in Manhattan, the solace of Boss William Marcy Tweed and Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, President McKinley drafted him as Secretary of War to organize the new colonial empire, which the U. S. had just acquired in its war with Spain. A year later when McKinley was running for reelection, it was suggested that Root run for Vice President to succeed Garret A. Hobart who had died in office. Root refused because he was in the midst of his job of giving new governments to Puerto Rico...
Died. Lionel Charles ("Dick") Probert, 53, vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, whose "Chessie" cat advertising campaign he fostered; of pneumonia ; in Los Angeles. Once a locomotive fireman, he turned newspaperman, became Associated Press Bureau chief in Mexico (1913) and Washington (1918-27). He saw President McKinley assassinated, went to France with President Wilson. The late Brothers Van Sweringen got him back in the railroad business as vice president of the Erie...
...Democratic Presidential nomination by Boss Tom Pendergast. By way of modest acknowledgment, the plump young Senator related an anecdote of his late great father and that statesman's predecessor as Speaker of the House. Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed. When Speaker Reed was contesting with William McKinley for the GOPresidential nomination in 1896, Congressman Clark met him one day, asked: "Mr. Speaker, are you going to get the nomination?" Replied Reed: "Why, Champ, I think they might go farther and fare worse, and I think they will...