Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-03-06
OF PRESI6TS,
Most Or the Nations
Dying Poor. y
Financial Condition Of Ii. -
From Washington Down = 60 -

4 eSVh C0fFeSnnna.
Of the Cleveland (ohiO) Lsud. ,'' J.
viii see that from the beginpID,' =! y
OF our Presidents have been 200, !.
George Washington was, perb,1. y
wealthiest of them and Ruthe,i0,,
Hayes viii perhaps rank next =
Adams, at the age of &c, after tv....
six years Of continuous public sew
retired to his little estate at o0..
Mass. with barely enough prOOsr,s
give him the needs Of life on =
Thomas Jefferson had to borrow -.
thing less than $4,000 Of a Rlchns,
bank to pay his debts before !. !.
the White House, and the histo,
the last seventeen years Of his III.
one of almost constant financial
barrassment. President Madison Il
some property at the time Of hisds,A
out pls widow, the peerless Dolly VA
for a time dependent on the bread =,
meat furnished her by an old p.,n
servant, and her last days were mss.
easy only by Congress buying Of n,
for $4,000 the manuscript notesOte.
debates of the Constitutional Cane.
ton which Madison had taken. p,a
ident Monroe. though he declined h,
said. $35S,000 from the governnWt
for his public services, died very Op,
in New York. John Quincy Adam,
must have received over half mil.
lion dollars in government salariu
and he is one of the few Presides
who again took up life after he III
the White House. He remained d
retirement only about a year, and Thea
entered the Lower House Of Congna
After about sixteen years Of seyia
there he died in the Capital in lSa
exclaiming, "This is the end Of earth,
am content" Andrew Jackm
gained nothing in wealth from III
White House salary. 1t cost him, h
says, every cent of it to pay hbg
1
penses. and the most Of the process
of his cotton crop in addition. lie n
turned from Washington at the caa
of his second term with just $50 inh
pocket, to find his farm going to rla,
and himself so deeply in debt that b
had to sell part of his land to get out
Van Buren, was a close. csuticg
money-making fellow. lie got god
law fees and began to learn economy
while saving enough as young man
to get married. At his estate at In
denwald, where he lived during hs
last years, he was surrounded Win
comforts. President Harrison ovnd
q farm In Ohio when he was iDanga.
rated President. 1t was safe to "
he was poor. for he had been hieI
doing the drudgery of a clerk o. uA
courts at Cincinnati. President lyh
supplied much Of the money whichia
the White House out of his own POa
ct, and Congress would not pay z
salary Of his own private secretary
Moderately wealthy while here
Washington, he left little to bis enu.
rem. and one of his sons is now q eplA
in the Treasury Department in Hsr
ington. Zach Taylor was by noins'
wealthy when he died in tne =.
House. James X. Polk leit
house and enough to keep bis WIZ.
and Willard Fillmore. who star'S'
as a wool carder, died ten jean
with enough Of an estate to cIs'1
lawsuit over the sanity OF MS ="
wife. James Buchanan DID 10. :
such an estate as enabled n \.
Lane to keep Wheatlands, ana =.
the past year it has been aa' g
for sale. Buchanan spent ~ - .a
airy as President at Washington T
| what he had left after paying
White House expenses ne -
charity. Abraham Lincoln a 49,
and 1t was due to Congress - -,
family was provided for. -
johnson went back to bis n0l~
GreenviIle. Tenn, where D -.
life IS q tailor. lie died Oy
Of paralysis, and left no iO n'..i,..
4 nf tha other TtcS