As a result of the Sept. 6, 1901, assassination of President McKinley, three things happened: Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States, the function of the Secret Service expanded to include guarding the U.S. president and William Craig was assigned to guard Roosevelt.
Frank J. Sprague was credited with the invention of the electric trolley but a Stockbridge man, Stephen Dudley Field, actually invented the electric trolley in 1874 – almost a decade earlier than Sprague.
