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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.