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Source: The Encyclopedia Americana Source type: book Document type: article Document title: “Czolgosz, Leon” Author(s): anonymous Volume number: 8 Publisher: Encyclopedia Americana Corporation Place of publication: New York, New York Year of publication: 1920 Pagination: 384 |
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| “Czolgosz, Leon.” The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 8. New York: Encyclopedia Americana, 1920: p. 384. |
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| Leon Czolgosz. |
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| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley. |
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Czolgosz, Leon
CZOLGOSZ, chōl′gōsh, Leon, American assassin: b. Detroit, Mich., 1873; d. Auburn, 29 Oct. 1901. He was of Polish-German ancestry; worked at various trades in the United States and became affiliated with anarchists. On 6 Sept. 1901, while President McKinley was holding a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N. Y., Czolgosz shot him twice. On 14 September the President died; on 23 September Czolgosz was brought to trial; on the 26th was sentenced to death, and was executed in the prison at Auburn, N. Y. See MCKINLEY, WILLIAM.