AND STORY OF HIS ASSASSINATION***


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Memorial Edition

COMPLETE LIFE OF WILLIAM McKINLEY
AND STORY OF HIS ASSASSINATION

An Authentic and Official Memorial Edition, Containing Every Incident in
the Career of the Immortal Statesman, Soldier, Orator and Patriot

by

MARSHALL EVERETT

The Great Descriptive Writer and Friend of the Martyr President

Profusely Illustrated with Full-Page Photographs of
the Assassination Scene

Portraits of President McKinley, His Cabinet, Famous Men of His
Administration and Vivid Life-Like Pictures of Eventful Scenes in His
Great and Grand Career






Copyright 1901 by Marshall Everett

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[Illustration:

  OUR MARTYR PRESIDENTS.]




                                PREFACE.


No figure of modern American history appeals so strongly to the
patriotism and love of the American people as William McKinley, and no
volume can have greater interest and value at the present day, or be
more dearly prized, than a history of his life in which every event of
his great career as a noble youth, a gallant soldier, an able lawyer, a
