Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-05

nlm somewhat uurlng ms Iatter years
by refunding the fine of $1,000 which
he had paid in New Orleans in 1915.
and this with the interest amounted in
lS43, | think, to 5000. Still. at the
time of Jacksou's death he owed more
than $4,000. and now his heirs hold
only life estate in the Hermitage by
an act of the Tennessee Legislature.
Martin Van Buren retired from the
white house wealthy and ambitious. He
ran for second term and was defeated.
He was a candidate for nomination
when Polk was nominated at Baltimore
four wears later. and in 1913 he accept
ed nomination as the Free Soil can
didate for the presidency and received
SOC, 900 votes. Van Buren, was close,
cautious. money-making fellow. lie
got good law fees, and began to learn
economy while saving enough as a
Young man to get married. At his es-
tate at Lindenwald. where he lived dur
ing his last years, he was surrounded
with books and comforts. and he left
manuscript on political parties in the
United States which his son published
in 1867. five years after his fathers
death.
President Harrison owned a farm in.
Ohio when he was inaugurated presi-
dent 1t is safe to say he was poor. for
he had been lately doing the drudgery
of the clerk of the courts at Cincinnati.
President Tyler supplied much of the
money which ran the white house out of
his own pocket, and congress would not
pay the salary of his private secretary.
He, like Van Buren. was not satisfied
to leave politics at the close of his term,
and he died in 1862. while serving as a
member of the confederate congress.
Moderately wealthy while here at Wash
| ington, he left little to his children, and
| one of his sons is now clerk in the
treasury department at Washington.
Zach Taylor was by no means wealthy
when he died In the white house. James
X. Polk left a big house and enough to
keep his widow, and Millard Fillmore.
| who started life as a wool-carder, died
ten years ago, with enough of an estate
| in Buffalo to create lawsuit over the
sanity of his second wife. He took.
like Grant, a foreign tour at the end of
his term. and was presidential candi-
date in 1856 as a leader of the know
nothings. James Buchanan did not
leave such an estate as enabled Harriet
Lane to keep Wheatlands, and within
the past year it has been advertised for
sale. Buchanan spent all his salary as
president while in Washington, and
what he had left after paying his white
house expenses he gave in charity. He
did not attempt to enter politics again,
and he died an unappreciated and dis
appointed man.
Abraham Lincoln died poor, and it
was due to congress that his family was
provided for. Andrew johnson went
back to his house at Greenville, Tenn,
where he had started life as tailor,
but he continued to take part in politics
until his death in 1875. Just before his
death he had been elected again as
United States senator, and he took his
seat on the 5th of March, 1875, at the
special session convened by Gen. Grant.
He died by stroke of paralysis, and
left no fortune behind.
OF the other presidents Grants neces-
sites are agitating the country to-day,
and Garfield's family is wealthy only
through the voluntary subscriptions of
the people. Truly, as Sidney Smith
used to say, There is nothing SO ex-
pensive as glory"