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McKINLEY, WILLIAM. 



Theological Seminary. Springfield, Ohio ; " The Ris- 

 ing Generation of the Lutheran Church," by the Rev. 

 Prof. Edmund G. Lund, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; and 

 " The Mission of the Lutheran Church in America," 

 by the Rev. Ferdinand W. E. Peschau, D. D., of 

 G'reensburg, Pa. The convention closed with a 

 mass meeting in the Auditorium, at which addresses 

 were delivered by the Hon. Isaac S. M otter, of Ohio, 

 on " The Growing Appreciation of the Lutheran 

 Church's Power " ; by the Hon. Cyrus R. Lantz, of 

 Pennsylvania, on li Our Church : Her Spirit, Duty 

 and Destiny"; and by Judge P. S. Grosscup, of 

 Chicago, on " The Influence of Christianity on 

 American Institutions." The next national con- 

 vention will be held in New York city in 1898. 



The history of this movement among the young 

 people of the Lutheran Church, whose second na- 

 tional convention closed amid the enthusiasm of 

 thousands gathered in Chicago's largest auditorium 



is very brief. The first local league was organized 

 in one of the congregations in New York city not 

 more than a dozen years ago, whence it gradually 

 worked its way into other New York churches; 

 then into central leagues, embracing numerous 

 local organizations ; then into State leagues, of 

 which there are now 16 ; and finally into a national 

 organization, the first convention of which was held 

 at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1895. The movement is in- 

 tended to bring together the members of the various 

 congregations and synods throughout the country, 

 in order to become acquainted with each other, to 

 discuss doctrinal and practical subjects, to inspire 

 the youth of the Church with loyalty to their 

 Church and zeal for the active prosecution of its 

 great mission in this country, and to cultivate a 

 spirit of churchliness in worship and practice 

 among all the members of the Lutheran Church of 

 America. 



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McKINLEY, WILLIAM, twenty-fifth President 

 of the United States, elected for the twenty-eighth 

 quadrennial term, born in Niles, Trurabull County, 

 Ohio, Jan. 29, 1843. The long low two-story frame 

 building in which he was born served the double 

 purpose of a country store and dwelling. His birth- 

 place stqod until late in 1895, when it was removed 

 from the old site and torn down, and the hard 

 woods of the mantels and baseboards were made 

 into canes and sold throughout the country among 

 his admirers. On his father's side his ancestry is 

 Scotch-Irish ; his forefathers came to America one 

 hundred and fifty years ago. Authentic records 

 trace the McKinlays in Scotland back to 1547, and 

 it is claimed by students that James McKinlay, 



BIRTHPLACE OF WILLIAM MCKINLEY, NILES, O 



"the trooper," was one of William's ancestors. The 

 crest of the McKinlay clan was a mailed hand 

 holding an olive branch, and its motto " Not too 

 much." The tartan was a somber plaid of green 

 and blue, with a larger plaid of red stripes. The 

 Rev. James McKinlay mentioned by Burns in his 

 poems " The Ordination " and " Tain Samson's 



Elegy " was a kinsman, contemporary with the 

 McKinleys of the Revolution in this country. The 

 change in spelling the final syllable from a to e is 

 explained by the reply that Major McKinley him- 

 self made at a meeting of the descendants of the 

 clan, an association embracing 200 or 300 people, 

 from six or eight States, at the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion in Chicago, in 1893, to a lady of the same name 

 but spelled in the old way. " Your ancestors of 

 the McKinlay clan," said he, "came to this coun- 

 try directly from Scotland, while mine came from 

 the north of Ireland ; but we are probably of the 

 same original Covenanter stock." About 1743 one 

 of the Scotch-Irish McKinleys settled in Chance- 

 ford Township, York County, Pa., where his son 

 David (the McKinley of the Revo- 

 lution, great-grandfather of the 

 President) was born in May, 1755. 

 The records of the Pension Bu- 

 reau show that he served as a pri- 

 vate in the Pennsylvania line for 

 about two years, and that he par- 

 ticipated in the capture of Paulus 

 Hook and in the engagements of 

 Amboy and Chester Hill. After 

 the Revolution he resided in West- 

 moreland and Chester Counties, 

 Pennsylvania, until 1814, when he 

 went to Ohio, where he died in 

 1840, at the age of eighty-five. 

 James McKinley, son of David, 

 moved to Columbiana County, 

 Ohio, in 1809, when William, fa- 

 ther of the President, was not yet 

 two years old ; and in that State 

 the family has since mainly re- 

 sided, although James and his 

 wife, who died on the same day, 

 are buried in the same grave at 

 South Bend. Ind. The grand- 

 mother of the President, Mary 

 Rose, came from a Puritan family 

 that fled from England to Hol- 

 land and emigrated to Pennsyl- 

 vania with William Penn. Her father, Andrew 

 Rose, Jr., was also a patriot of the Revolution, par- 

 ticipating in the battle of Monmouth and render- 

 ing good service at his trade as a m older in the 

 manufacture of ammunition for the American 

 army. William McKinley, Sr.. father of the Presi- 

 dent, born in Pine Township, Mercer County, Pa., 



