The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04
Curiosilics Of American History.

| The American political history is
full of curiusities and singular Incl
| dents. For instance, three Of our
Presidents, all of whom participated
in the Revolution, died on It's great
anniversary, the 4th of July, viz
John Adams. Thomas Jefferson and
James Monroe.
General Washington, when he re-
tired from the Presidency, was in the
sixly-sixth year OF his age. His sue
cessor. when he left, was sixty six.
James Madison had just passed his
sixty sixth year and Mr.. Monroe was
in his sixty seventh, when they re-
spectively left the chair. General
HARRISON was sixtyseven years old
wien he was elected, and died in the
Presidential office.
! From 1901 to 1925, the Pre>iden-
tial office was filed by Virg mans
During he same interval, with the
exception of four years, the Vice
Presidential Office was steadily held
by citiz ms of New York. John
Adams negotiated the treaty Of peace
that concluded the war OF the Revo-
luti n with England. His son, John
Quincy Adams, was a leading envoy,
and negotiated the treaty which
ended the second war with England,
in 1914 His son, Charles Francis
Adams, at the third great crisis Of
our history, was the Minister to Eng
land during the recent war, from
1861 to 1865, the period which covers
the alabama" claims, out of which
another war was altogether possible
with the mother country.
In 1900 John Adams was on a
leading Presidential ticket. Tive ity-
four years after his son, John Quincy,
was also a Presidential candidate.
Twenty four years from that time,
Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy
Adams son, was an important candl-
date for Vice President. with con
tingent Presidential successor.
OF the first six Presidents, four of
them were taken from the office Of
Secretary Of State; and the other
two, being the first elected, could not
perform its duties. From this fact
arose the precedents that makes the
Secretary of State the first Office in
the Cabinet, instead of the Secretary
of the Treasury, which is the case il
Glea Britain.
The highest civil officer in the
country, at the time Of the Declare
tion of Independence, was John
Hancock, of Massachusetts, the Pres
:dent of the Continental Congress. The
highest military officer was George
Washington, of Virginia. The first
battle of the Revolution was fought
in Massachusetts, and the last in
Virginia and the second from Massa-
chusetts. The first English settle
ment in the country was made in
Virginia, and the second in Massa-
chusetts. OF the fifty-six signers to
the Declaration Of Independence.
three long survived upon the earth
after all the others had died; and two
OF tneSe nad Deen upon tne sub COM
nittee Of FIVE which drafted the i'm
portant instrument. The very last
survivor, Charles Carroll, of Carol
ton, Maryland, threw the FIRST shovel
full of earth from the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, the first railroad en-
.terprise in this country. The last
man of the past inaugurated the
coming future.
No less than FIVE of the greatest
American statesmen were born in the
same year, 1882: Daniel Webster,
John G. Calhoun, Thomss H. Benton,
Martin Van Buren, and Lewis Cass.
From 1900 to lS55,a period running
from the second President to the
seventeenth, only two persons flied
the Office Of Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court OF the United States,
John Marshal and Roger B. Taney.
The first Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States, Alexander
Hamilton, was allowed to be de-.
fauiter. fAss ~