Unique 36″-long hand-crafted cane made by William A. Hutchinson of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, using wood from William McKinley's house in Canton, Ohio. The cane is annotated in ink, "From Wm. McKinley's Home, Canton—Ohio," and is accompanied by a hand-annotated descriptive sleeve, offering further details about the cane and a brief history of McKinley's presidency. The sleeve, in part: "White Pine from William McKinley's Home at Canton, Ohio...The wood from which this cane is made was procured by Arthur O. Hill, 1800 Yale Ave., N.W. Canton, Ohio, and received from him Dec. 29, 1934—Handle, curly maple, ebony, oak from Pennsylvania Canal and Balaustre—Tip, curly maple. President McKinley lived in this house about seven years. He at first rented it from George D. Horton and purchased it while he was president." In fine condition.
William A. Hutchinson spent almost 50 years at the turn of the 20th century crafting canes and walking sticks from historic and exotic woods. By the time he died in 1949, he had amassed a collection of around 550 canes, almost all made by himself. Many were kept in homemade paper tubes on which he wrote the history of the piece. His collection was featured in several newspaper articles of the period.
