William McKinley Jr. (1843 - 1901)

“The Democratic Banner”, (Dunn, North Carolina), 16 Oct 1901, page 1

Baptism of William McKinley.

Rev. A. D. Morton, a venerable looking minister now living in Canton, Ohio, was the one who baptized the president and received him into the church of which he was a member. Speaking of those early experiences to an interviewer, he said:

"Yes, I received William McKinley into the church and baptized him. That was at Portland, Mahoning county, in 1856, when McKinley was 14 years of age.

”At one of the meetings William McKinley arose in his place and announced his determination to be a Christian, stating that there would be no going back as long as God spared his life. He professed conversion at that time.

"McKinley had never been baptized and when the question of his baptism came up, before he was taken into full membership with the church, it was discovered that he had imbibed the idea that the only true mode of baptism was by immersion. His mother, being a Methodist, favored sprinkling, and she tried to persuade her son to give up the idea of immersion.

"But arguments were of no avail, so one Sunday in the following summer, in company with a number of others, McKinley repaired to the borders of the stream near Portland and I immersed him."

Mr. Morton was an active minister in the Erie conference of the Methodist church for thirty years, but owing to ill health, superanuated in 1881. During the war of the rebellion he was chaplain of the 105th Ohio Regiment Volunteer infantry. — Christian Herald.

I came to the profile to add the Mount Union College category, but also added the newer succession box as long as I was here. The old succession boxes are being phased out.

See: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Succession

Regards, Nat

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Chicago Tribune, 14 June 1932, pg. 26.

Alden F. Brooks, 93 years old, 518 Elder Lane, Winnetka, a former portrait painter for whom President McKinley once sat, died yesterday from pneumonia following an automobile collision on June 10 at Elder Lane and Woodlawn avenue, in the north shore suburb.

Does anyone know this portrait?

“The News-Herald “, (Franklin, Pennsylvania),16 Feb 1927, page 14

... Mrs. (Maria J. Wallace) Miller was born September 19, 1841, in Poland. O., and was a classmate of the late President McKinley.

Category: Freemasonry

"William McKinley January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901 March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901 Initiated on May 1, 1865 in Hiram Lodge No. 21, Winchester, Virginia. Joined Canton Lodge No. 60, Canton, Ohio in 1867. Charter member of Eagle (later William McKinley) Lodge No. 431, also in Canton." wikipedia.com

Francis Delafield-36 was the primary physician who was consulted following the shooting of United States President William McKinley in September 1901. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Delafield)