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Title	William McKinley Birth Home on Franklin Alley Postcard
Subject	Presidents and Politics Architecture McKinley, William, 1843-1901 Birthplaces Houses
Place	Niles (Ohio) Trumbull County (Ohio)
Description	This 3.5" x 5.5" (8.89 by 13.97 cm) postcard features a photograph of portion of the house in Niles, Ohio in which William McKinley was born. The home originally stood on Main Street in downtown Niles. In the late 1890s, part of the house was moved to Franklin Alley and occupied by the Harris Automatic Press Company from 1895-1904. It was later used by a local undertaker for storage. Another part of the house was relocated to an area southwest of downtown called Riverside Park. Niles brothers Charles and Albert Harris invented the first high-speed automatic-feed printing press, and were responsible for other printing innovations during the early 1900s. Their small company grew into the Harris Corporation, a multi-million-dollar international communications equipment company. The men in the photograph are likely Harris employees. The postcard appears to be part of set commissioned by Lulu Mackey-Wess and sold to raise funds. By 1910, Mrs. Mackey-Wess had purchased both structures and eventually had them rejoined and restored on her property east of Niles; this area then became known as McKinley Heights. After her death in 1934, the house was neglected and later burned to the ground on April 3, 1937. A replica of McKinley's birth home, the McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center, is now at the original location on Main Street. William McKinley (1843-1901), the twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio. He enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the Civil War and, after being mustered out, studied law and opened a law office in Canton, Ohio. McKinley served in the U.S. Congress for 14 years, and became president in 1897, largely due to the influence of Marcus Hanna, boss of the Cleveland political machine. McKinley was most noted for his foreign policy and the conduct of the Spanish-American War in 1898. It was during McKinley's administration that the U.S. acquired its first overseas possessions in the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. He was re-elected in 1900, but was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901. His running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, then became president.
Creator	Mackey-Wess, Lulu
Date of Original	1904
Source	Audiovisual material 02.01.2002
Submitting Institution	McKinley Memorial Library
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2309_1874824_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2309_1874824_001.tif
Image Height	1078
Image Width	1646
File Size	496.002 KB

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