84 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS crime during the following month. The president lingered until early on Saturday morning, Septem ber 14. Funeral services were held in Buffalo, and on Thursday, September 19, which was by Presi dent Roosevelt appointed a day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States. On that day the body lay in state in the national Capitol, and was followed by a public funeral. At the same time unprecedented honors were paid to the mem ory of McKinley in St. Paul s Cathedral arid Westminster Abbey, London, as well as in other parts of the Old World. The dead president s body was temporarily laid to rest in Canton, Ohio, where his widow resided. Probably none of his predecessors during their terms of office enjoyed as great popularity as William McKinley, and it may be safely asserted that the death of no other presi dent was more universally mourned among his countrymen. A noble national monument was erected to his memory in Canton September 30, 1907, and was dedicated in the presence of Presi dent Roosevelt and several members of his cabinet.* See "Speeches and Addresses of William Mc Kinley," compiled by Joseph P. Smith (New York, 1893) ; the "Life of Major McKinley," by Robert P. Porter (Cleveland, 1896); and
- The author of the original article, who was chosen by Presi
dent McKinley, having died in February 1898, the additions cover ing the period after that date and some earlier were made by the editor of this work.
