Excerpt from The Life of William McKinley Twenty-Fifth President of the United States My excuse for placing this brief biography of the late President McKinley before the public is that there is a demand for just such a work. While there are several extended biographies and a multitude of articles to which students can refer, the need of a brief account adapted to youth, and suitable for school work in preparation for McKinley Day exercises, still exists; so I have endeavored to relate the main facts in the life of William McKinley, and have selected a few incidents in his life, hoping that they may prove an inspiration to many a boy to emulate that high and noble example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.