E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 58740-h.htm or 58740-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/58740/58740-h/58740-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/58740/58740-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/completelifeofwi00everiala Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 brilliant orator, a grand statesman, a brave patriot and an heroic martyr is set forth accurately, and in a spirit of love and reverence. The author of this memorial edition has produced exactly the volume described. In graphic words he has described the assassination of President McKinley. It is a word picture that will linger forever in the memory of every reader, calling forth sympathy and patriotism on behalf of the martyr President and undying contempt and horror of the assassin and the foul and cowardly thing called anarchy. Every detail of that now historic scene is told so vividly that the reader sees it as if he were an eye-witness. McKinley’s gallant fight for life, his cheerfulness, his patience, his tender solicitude for his invalid wife, his trust in God and all the beautiful attributes of his grand Christian spirit are recorded with fidelity to truth and a just appreciation of the nobility of such a grand character.