Feb 15, 2016 · President William McKinley is perhaps best known for leading America to victory in the Spanish-American War, but lesser known are his ties to the Pittsburgh area. The future leader of the free...

The reasons why McKinley did not continue at Allegheny are unknown. College legend has it that he was dismissed for the prank of putting a cow in the belfry of Bentley Hall. Beyond records of cows regularly appearing in Allegheny recitation rooms, no data supports this myth.

Graduating from Poland Seminary in 1859, McKinley enrolled the following year at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was an honorary member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. [ 7 ] He remained at Allegheny for one year, returning home in 1860 after becoming ill and depressed.

William McKinley allegedly takes a cow up the Bentley Bell Tower. Culver Hall is built. Curriculum consists of three departments: Classical, Scientific and Biblical. The Board of Trustees passed a resolution to admit women to the College – 3 women entered. The Campus begins publishing.

Upon graduation, he entered Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1860. He attended Allegheny for only one term, however, because of illness and financial difficulties. When the Civil War started, William joined the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio, William McKinley, Jr., grew up there, enrolled and studied briefly at Allegheny College, served for four years in the Union Army during the Civil War, and then served a year or so as an apprentice in the office of a Poland, Ohio, judge.

He didn’t have enough money to remain enrolled at Allegheny College, so he worked as a postal clerk and later took a job teaching at a school near Poland, Ohio, until he enlisted as a private in the 23rd Ohio Infantry. McKinley quickly took to the soldier's life.

In 1860, McKinley enrolled at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He left school that winter (official story is that he left for health reasons, but school legend is that he was expelled for taking a cow into the bell tower at Bentley Hall).

William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States, serving between 1897 and 1901. He was born in 1843 in Ohio. McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out.

William McKinley, with just a year at Allegheny, became president. Clarence Darrow’s abbreviated time at the College’s preparatory school in the early 1870s helped open the way to a distinguished law career in which he championed the cause of the underprivileged and the underdog.