Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-21
ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS

Something About the Personal I.iis OF some
OF the Chief Executives
Carp " In the New York World
Cleveland was born In March, and this
cold, raw month has been favorable one
for Democratic presidents. 1t was In
March that Andrew Jackson first saw the
light, and this reminds me that much the
same controversy prevailed as to his birth
a. now prevails as TO that OF Gen Sheridan.
Jackson's father was an lrishman, and It
was long question In the minds of mar v
as to where he wns born. One party said
he was born in North Carolina, another
claimed that he was born In South Caro-
lima and third argued that he was born at
sea, oil the coast OF one OF those states,
jackson himself thought he was born in
q GSSH- Can .!nS. snd at the close OF his IA
n.s nnms nait,in,sr naUi, FAR 10 day aEs ~ssAAs,
nous hui!llcation proclamation he used
the expression, Fellow cit zsns of nv ma.
tive state. Parton proves however. that
he was born in North Carolina, and the
truth OF 1t seems to be that Andrew Jackson
carried to his graves wrong supposition as
10 whero he first saw the light
John Tyler was bonn II March, ard
James Madison first saw the light OF day
on the 10th OF March, l75l. President
cleveland Is the only president who " as
ever born on the 18Th Of the month, but We
nave W. presidents who were born on tho
10Th, and one OF these was an Buren,, who
was born in Decsm bsr, aud the other was
arthur, who SO " his first light In October.
Ine Decembei; presidents are Van Buren,
ana Johnson. Garfield, Pierce ana Polk
were bqyn in November ; Lincoln, Hsrri.
son And Washington in February, and
Grant, Buchanan, Monroe and Jefferson in
Ar,r!L John Quincy Adams SOU 'aked his
giisf cry In July, and n sch Taylor came
bowling into this world in September
Grover Cleveland Is the only cergymsn's
son who has ever been elC cted president,
though ArthuI's father was a clergy man.
He was not, however, elected president.
The fathers Of the Virginia presidents
Washington, Jefferson, Madison aud Mon.
roe-were planters. John TyleI's father
was lawyer and a statesman, and John
Adams, the father OF John Quincy Adams,
was by profession lawyer. Grants father
was tanner, Hayes father a merchant,
and the fathers OF Garfield, Lincoln, Pierce,
Fillmore, Polk, Van Buren, and Jackson
were farmerP The chances for the presi-
dency in the past have thus been with the
farmers boys, and out OF the eighteen
presidents elected by the people only OIL Q
has been PARSONS son.
President Cleveland never went TO col
lege, and Washington, Jackson, Van
Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln and
johnson had no college training. John
Adams was cd ucated at Harvard, Thomas
Jefferson studied Latin at William and
Mary, and Madison probably used pony
TRANSACTIONS while he was at Princeton
Monroe and Tyler were also students AT
William and Mary, a. Williamsburg, and
John Quincy Adams grad usted at Harvard.
Harrison was coilege.bred. Pierce was a
good mathematical student at Bowdoin
college and Bucatn'n n went to school tt
Dickinson college. Gen. Grant was the
only president who had military
education, though a number of the presi.
dents were soldiers He went 10 school AT
West Point, Rutherford Hay eI was educs-
dated In Ohio, aud his school was KENYON
college Carried studied at Williams,
Massachusetts, and President Arthur was
schooled st union college.