The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-14
How the Presidents Died.

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George Washington.-His death
was the result of severe cold con-
tracted while riding around his
farm in rain and sleet storm on
December 10, 1899. The cold in
creased and was followed by chill,
which brought on acute laryngitis.
His death occurred on December
IA, 1899. He was sixty-six years of
age.
John Adams.-He died from old
age, having reached his ninety-frst
milestone. Though active mentally,
he was nearly blind, and unable to
hold a pen steadily enough to write.
He passed away without pain on
July 4, 1926.
Thomas Jefferson.-He died at
the age of eighty-three, a few hours
before Adams, on July 4, 1926. His
disease was chronic diarrhea, super
induced by old age and, his physi-
clan said, the too free use of the wa
ters of the White Sulphur Springs.
James Madison.-He, too, died of
old age, and peacefully, on June %,
1885. His faculties were undimmed
to the last. He was eighty-fve.
James Monroe.-At the time of
his death, which occurred in the
seventy-third year of his age, on
July 4, 1881, it was assigned to no
other cause than enfeebled health.
John Quincy Adams.-He was
stricken with paralysis on February
III, 1S48, while addressing the
Speaker of the House of Represents
atives, being at the time member
of Congress. He died in the rotunda
of the Capitol. He was eighty-one
years of age.
Andrew Jacksonville died on
June 8, 1915, seventy-eight years
old. He suffered from consump-
ton and finally dropsy, (which made
its appearance about six months
before his death.
Martin Van Buran.-He died on
July "a, 1862, from violent attack
of asthma, followed by catarrhal
affection of the throat and lungs.
He was eighty years of age.
William Henry Harrison.-The
cause of his death was pleurisy, the
result of cold, which he caught on
the day of his Inauguration. This
was accompanied by severe diar-
rhea, which would not yield to med
ical treatment. His death occurred
on April 4, 1841, month after his
Inauguration. He was sixty-eight
years of age.
John Tyler.-He died on January
III, 1862, at the age of seventy-two.
[ have been unable to ascertain the
cause of his death.
James K. Polk.-In the spring of
1S49 he was stricken with a slight
attack of cholera while on a boat
going up the Mississippi river.
Though temporarily relieved he had
relapse on his return home, and
died on June Is, 1S49, aged fifty
four years.
Zachary Taylor-He was the Sec
ond President to die in office. He
is said to have partaken immoder-
ately of ice water and iced milk,
and then later on of large guam
tity of cherries. The result was an
attack of cholera morbus. Another
authority attributes his death to a
severe cold. The former seems the
more likely. He was sixty-six years
of age.
Millard Fillmore. died from
a stroke of paralysis on March 8,
1874, in his seventy-fourth year.
Franklin Pierce.-His death was
due to abdominal dropsy, and oc-
Cured on October s, 1869, in the
sixty-ffth year of his life.
James Buchanan.-His death oc-
Cured on June /, 1868, and was
caused by rheumatic gout. He was
seventy-seven years of age.
Abraham Lincoln.-He was shot
by J. Wilkes Booth at Ford's Thea
ter, Washington, D. c., on April IA,
1865, and died the following day,
aged fifty-six.
Andrew Johnson.-He died from
a stroke of paralysis, July 81, 1878,
aged sixty-seven.
The deaths of Grant, Garfield and