A local tie to an assassination
By Editor | January 20, 2021 President William McKinley, our nation’s 25th president, was assassinated July 4, 1891, by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, while he stood in a receiving line in the “Temple of Music” at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. My columns always deal with Fayette County connections, and there is a connection between this event and Vandalia resident Olivia Yoos Burtschi, Mary and Josephine’s mother. Remembered as historians and preservationists, Josephine ...
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