Talk:William B. McKinley

Illinois Traction System
Added Trains Wiki Project as McKinley was involved with the formation of the Illinois Traction System. Lost on Belmont (talk) 16:24, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

General Inquiry Pursuant To Further Research
As a distant relative of Senator William McKinley, I am pleased to see the article; at the same time, I was hoping to learn about McKinley's time in China, and how he amassed his fortune. I don't know either, although arguably, this would give me enough of a basis to look up the rest of the information at the Main Library of the University of Illinois in Urbana.

If I were to research this further, would you be interested in a write-up?

Other things I have picked up over the years are that McKinley's father was one of the early ministers at the First Presbyterian Church of Champaign; McKinley Foundation, the Presbyterian Church on the UIUC campus--the original campus of the University of Illinois--was established by McKinley, as was the McKinley YMCA, which is presently the McKinley Fitness Center; McKinley donated McKinley Field, a football field with a quarter-mile track around it, owned by the park district, and used as a practice facility by Champaign Central High School; McKinley Avenue is named for him.

Just searching this evening, I have come across https://archive.org/stream/standardhistoryov1stew/standardhistoryov1stew_djvu.txt, which confirms much of what I already knew and fleshes out the story even further.

Apologies for any hoops I may have failed to jump through properly. I do not keep up with this part of the Wiki very often, and the new protocols all seem strange yet quite demanding. C-U RPCV (talk) 06:53, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Hatnote is Incorrect
The hatnote here currently says,


 * For the congressman from Illinois, see William B. McKinley (Illinois politician).

Well, there's at least a couple of problems here. First of all, both William B. McKinley's are politicians from Illinois. Secondly, and more importantly, THIS article is about a man who was a "congressman" (meaning, served in the US House of Representatives), but the other article is about a man who was NOT a congressman.

I almost think William B. McKinley needs to be a dab page, with a standard single sentence clarifying who is who, most importantly including birth and death dates. But I recognize that as a member of both the US House and the US Senate, this guy probably should have have the main article. But William B. McKinley (Illinois politician) needs to be moved. I suppose William B. McKinley (Illinois state legislator) is as good as I can get without a dab page. Un sch  ool  01:06, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Serious contradiction
In the articles on Frank L. Smith and William B. McKinley, there is contradictory information about the Senate elections in 1920 and 1926. I could make them consistent, but I'd be speculating about what is accurate. I've no time to research the matter, and merely note it for the record. Un sch  ool  01:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)