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Source: San Francisco Call
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “Guard at McKinley Vault Reduced”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: San Francisco, California
Date of publication: 2 December 1901
Volume number: 91
Issue number: 2
Pagination: 2

 
Citation
“Guard at McKinley Vault Reduced.” San Francisco Call 2 Dec. 1901 v91n2: p. 2.
 
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Keywords
William McKinley (protection, posthumous); McKinley burial vault.
 
Named persons
William Ashbridge; William McKinley.
 
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Guard at McKinley Vault Reduced

     WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The detachment of troops assigned to the duty of guarding the vault containing the remains of the late President McKinley, in the West Lawn cemetery, Canton, O., has been reduced to five non-commissioned officers and forty privates, under command of Lieutenant William Ashbridge, Thirteenth Infantry.
     The remainder of the guard has been sent to the post at Fort Wayne, Mich.

 

 


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