WILLIAM McKINLEY
                    A REGISTER OF THE ADDENDA TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
                            Wilhelmina Curry, 1981

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress

                            Washington, D.C.  1997



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                          Administrative Information



      The addition to the papers of William McKinley (1843-1901),
soldier, attorney, congressman, governor of Ohio, and president
of the United States, consists of material acquired by the
Library of Congress through gift and purchase from 1966 to 1997.


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                   Linear feet of shelf space occupied:   .4
                   Approximate number of items:          300



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                               Biographical Note



1843, Jan. 29    Born, Niles, Ohio

1859             Taught school near Poland, Ohio

1860             Attended one term at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.

1861-1865        Joined the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a
                    private; advanced during the Civil War to rank of major 

1865-1867        Studied law

1867             Admitted to the bar; established law practice, Canton, Ohio

1869-1871        Prosecuting attorney, Stark Co., Ohio

1871             Married Ida Saxton

1876-1883        Member, United States House of Representatives, eighteenth
1886-1891           district of Ohio

1892-1896        Governor, Ohio

1893             Declared bankruptcy

1896-1901        President of the United States 

1901, Sept. 6    Shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz while attending a Pan
                    American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y.

1901, Sept. 14   Died, Buffalo, N.Y.



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                            Scope and Content Note



      The Addenda to the papers of William McKinley has been organized as
Series 17 of the collection and comprises previously undescribed parts of the
original collection and material received by the Library since 1966.  It is
organized in subseries according to the year each addition was processed. 
None of the material in the Addenda is microfilmed or included in the
published index.

      The 1981 Addition includes items dating from 1872 to 1935, most of which
is correspondence.  The correspondence is organized as family and general
correspondence with an additional file concerning the donation of McKinley's
papers to the Library of Congress.  Although most of the correspondence is
from McKinley, communications from his contemporaries are also included. 
Correspondents in the general file include James G. Blaine, Julius C. Burrows,
William E. Chandler, Henry Clark Corbin, William R. Day, William Wade Dudley,
Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles Foster, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, James
A. Garfield, Charles Henry Grosvenor, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Rutherford B.
Hayes, George Hoadly, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Levi
P. Morton, William McKinley Osborne, James A. Saxton, and John Sherman.  The
printed material relates to McKinley's political career.  Also included is a
photocopy of McKinley's last will and testament, 1897.

      The 1997 Addition contains a presidential pardon dated 1900 and signed
by McKinley commuting the prison sentence of William H. White.



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                             Description of Series



Container Nos.   Series

1                Series 17, Addenda, 1872-1935, n.d.
                    Family and general correspondence, printed material,
                 photocopy of McKinley's will, and a presidential pardon. 
                 Organized according to the year each addition was processed,
                 and thereunder alphabetically by type of document.

OV 1             Oversize, 1891-1901.
                    Printed material.  Arranged and described according to
                 the series, container, and folder from which the items were
                 removed.



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                                Container List


Container No.    Contents

SERIES 17, ADDENDA, 1872-1935, n.d.

Box 1            1981 Addition
                    Correspondence
                       Family
                          Duncan, Sarah Elizabeth (sister), 1899 
                          Duncan, William M. (nephew), 1893-1900 
                          McKinley, Abner (brother), 1872-82 
                          McKinley, Anna (sister), 1880-82 
                          McKinley, Allison David (brother), 1877-81 
                          McKinley, Grace (niece), 1901 
                          McKinley, Helen Minerva (sister), 1880, 1900, n.d. 
                          McKinley, Ida Saxton (wife), 1900 
                          McKinley, James (brother), 1880-82 
                          McKinley, William (father), 1877-84 
                       General, 1873-99 (10 folders)
                       Library of Congress, 1917-18, 1935
                    Last will and testament (photocopy), 1897
                    Printed material _See Oversize_
                 1997 Addition
                    Presidential pardon of William H. White, 1900


OVERSIZE, 1891-1901

Box OV 1         1981 Addition
                    Printed material (Series 17, Container 1)
                       Act of Congress, H.R. No. 9657, 1891
                       Blank commissions
                       Certificates, 1899-1901
                       Electoral College of New York, 1901  
                       Memorial to McKinley in Arabic, 1901 
                       Report, Dublin, Ireland, 1900   


***Last update 12/16/98 (kef)***