On a Friday night in 1901 the world was shocked to hear the news that President McKinley had been shot. Then came a week of alternatinghope and fear. At times physicians, close friends, and the public were confident that science, a model life, the good constitution and courage of the distinguished patient would triumph, and that President McKInley would be spared. All seemed to go well for almost a week; business returned as usual in a nation confident in the recovery of their chief executive. But early Friday morning the wires flashed to the corners of the earth that the President's heart was failing.
All day Friday despite the hopeful bulletins sent out, it was a time of failing hope in the hearts of the people. The public was keot informed so that they could read between the lines Then came the long and anxious hours of waiting.
At Milburn House in Buffalo, New York,at 3:15 a.m.on September 14,1901, the twenty-fifth president of the United States died.
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