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Source: Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy Source type: journal Document type: article Document title: “In Memoriam” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: January 1902 Volume number: none Issue number: 41 Pagination: 24 |
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| “In Memoriam.” Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy Jan. 1902 n41: p. 24. |
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| Pennsylvania Prison Society; William McKinley (death: public response); William McKinley (mourning). |
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| William McKinley. |
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In Memoriam
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, PRESIDENT UNITED STATES.
Died September 14th, 1901.
At a meeting of the Acting Committee of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, held September 26th, 1901, the following minute was passed by a rising silent vote:
That as God has removed by death the Chief Magistrate
of our country, President McKinley, we, the members of this venerable Society,
desire to record our profound sorrow for the untimely death of our late President
of the United States, William McKinley, and our deep abhorrence of the crime
by which the nation has been so suddenly bereft of its Chief Executive and plunged
into mourning.
We would here express our high appreciation of
the life and distinguished services of the dead, and would pay our heartfelt
tribute to the signal ability and conscientiousness with which he at all times
discharged the trying duties of his great office, the manliness and noble simplicity
of his personal character, the beauty and tenderness of his domestic relations,
and the power of the Christian faith which sustained him in life.
The nation mourns a trusted chief, and the American
people one of the best and brightest examples of those virtues which constitute
the truest glory of our social and national life.