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 and Mary were daughters of Joseph Burtschi and founders of the Vandalia Historical Society. Olivia was the daughter of Adam Yoos, an Effingham merchant whose store was a short distance from the railroad station.