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Murder in Stark County, Ohio

With Author Kim Kenney

Using local newspaper accounts, author Kim Kenney tells the story of eight Stark County murders, unfolding the grisly details while honoring the lives cut short by violence. Register for a Zoom link.

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Rendered in painstaking detail, accounts of high-profile killings and courtroom drama filled the pages of Stark County’s early newspapers.

The triple hanging of three teenage boys in 1880 seized the attention of the entire community.

When George Saxton, notorious womanizer and President McKinley’s brother-in-law, was shot dead on the front lawn of his widowed lover in 1898, the whole nation looked on.

For the brutal slaying of his wife, James Cornelius became the first local prison inmate executed in the electric chair in 1906. 

Kim Kenney became Curator of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in October 2001 and was promoted to Executive Director in 2019.

Kim is the author of seven books: Canton: A Journey Through Time; Canton’s West Lawn Cemetery; Canton’s Pioneers in Flight; Canton Entertainment; Interpreting Anniversaries and Milestones at Museums and Historic Sites; Through the Lens: The Photography of Frank Dick; and Stark County Food: From Early Farming to Modern Meals (with co-author Barb Abbott).

Her work has appeared in The Public Historian, the Journal of the National Council for Public History; White House History, the Journal of the White House Historical Association; The Repository; The Boston Globe; Aviation History; and the literary magazine Mused.

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