The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-10-03
A Condensed Presidential History.
CEoRGE WASHINGTON died at
n Mo,,nl Uarn a.. m tho Il Ar 20 n. |

so suddenly, that the tidings of his
sickness and his death simultaneously
reached the hall of Congress- beJd olIi n
John Adams came to " the end ofball
living" at his residence in Quincy, Mass,
on the 4th of July, 1926, realizing what
day it was, and rejoicing in it. He grad
ually and quietly expired at the patriar-
chial age of four-score years and ten.
Thomas Jefferson by an extraordinary
coincidence, breathOd his last at Monti-.
cello on the same day that his venerable
compatriot, Adams, died-the jubilee of
American independence. He had reach
ed the advanced age of eighty-three..
James Madison, the " man of the Con-
stitution," and one Of the wisest states
men our country has produced, peaceful
ly closed his earthly career at Montpe-
lier, Va, on the goth of June, 1885, in
his eighty-sixth year s"' ,,tai- aiias
James Monroe died in the city of New
York on the 4th of July, 1882, in his
eightieth year. He was pure patriot,
and the last of the Presidents who served
in the eventful days the Revolution
having been q Colonel in the Continental
army. He particularly enjoyed the con-
fidence of Washington, and the period of
his wise and peaceful administration was
characterized as 'the era of good feel
ing" ..t........'.''.
John Quincy Adams expired at the
Capital at Washington, on the 23d of |
February, l84S; literally dying in his
countrys service, at the age of eighty !
one, To the last he was Of the class of |
life's busy men and identified as he had
been from boyhood with the public ser
vice, it was solemnly striking and appro-
pirate that the halls of the national coun-
ellis should hear his dying words. He
was struck by paralysis while in his seat
in the House of Representatives .TarI
Andrew jackson died at Hermitage,
near Nashville, on the 8th of June, 1915,
in his seventy-ninth year. He must
have been q great man, indeed, who
could cluster the affections of whole
people around him as this distinguished
soldier and patriot did His popularity
had no parallel but that of Washington.
Martin Van Buren died at his birth
place, Kinderhood, Columbia county N.
Y, on the Oath of July, 1862, in his
eightieth year. His administration from
1887 to 1871, was period marked by
great financial distress through the coun-
try, which was charged by his political
opponents upon the policy he pursued in
managing the public finances through the
agency of the Independent treasury. He
failed of denomination for second term,
however, on account of his opposition to
the annexation of Texas l.
William Henry Harrison died on the
4th of April, 1924, exactly one month
after his inauguration, aged sixty-eight
He was the first President who died in
office, and at the executive mansion. He |
had gained deep hold on the peoples
heart, and no one living at the time can
ever forget the profound and universal
expressions Of sympathy and sorrow that
his death occasioned. ~ sr #teH.
John Tyler, elected Vice President,
and who succeeded Gen. Harrison for the
remainder of his term, renounced his al
legiance to the United States in 1861
and died the following year in Richmond
Va, in his I'D year; being at the time a
Senator in Virginia in the Confederate
Congress, then in session at Richmond.
James Knox Polk died at his home in |
Tennessee, on the 18th of june, l849 only
three months after the expiration of his
term of office,a in his forty-fourth year.
He was man of unquestionable ability
and talent, and achieved the highest hon
or his country could bestow at a much |
earlier age than any of his predecessors.
Zachary Taylor's DEATH on the 9th of
July, 1859, when he had been sixteen
months in office, called forth the deepest
expressions of nations grief, and every
where the full heart of the peopele was
touched beyond what adequate words can
utter. He died at the Presidential man
sion, in his sixty-sixth year. i, .5.,
Abraham Lincoln's death on,the 18th
of April, 1865, Zone month and ten days
after his second inauguration,) was one
that shocked the country beyond any
thing that ever occurred in its history,
and sent thrill of horror throughout the |
world. All his predecessors had descend
ed to the tomb in the ordinary course of
nature, but it was reserved for him to fall |
by the foul hand of the assassin. His
character aud administration are too fresh
in public recollection to need any COM
ment. He died in his 57th year.
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe, jackson and Lincoln, were tho only
Presidents twice chosen to the high Office.