McKinley comes home to Canton; Roosevelt dedicates his tomb on the hill

Six years after an assassin's bullet in Buffalo, William McKinley finally reached his permanent resting place. On September 30, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt stood before a crowd in Canton, Ohio, and delivered the principal address at the dedication of the McKinley National Memorial. Justice William R. Day recounted the years leading to the day, and Poet Laureate James Whitcomb Riley read a memorial poem. McKinley's coffin, and that of his wife Ida, were sealed into twin sarcophagi of green granite beneath a monument built by public subscription…