St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-21
DEATH OF PRESIDENTS.
Causes of the Decease of Our
Chief Executives.

Causes of the Decease of Our
Chief Executives.
American Notes and Queries
George WashingtOn-HiS death was
the result of severe cold contracted
while riding around his farm in rain
and sleet storm Dec. 10, 1899. The cold
Increased and was followed cy chill,
which brought on acute laryngitis. His
death occurred Dec. IA, 1899. He was
Sixty-eight years of age.
John Adams-He died from old age.
having reached his ninety-firSt mile
stone. Though active mentally, he was
nearly blind and unable to hold a pen
steadily enough to write. He passed
away without pain July 4, 1926.
Thomas JetferSon-He died at the age
of eighty-three, a few hours before
Adams, July 4. 1896. His disease was
chronic diarrhGa, superinduced by old
age, and, his physician said, the too
free use of the waters of the White
Sulphur springs.
James Madison-He. too. died of old
aged, and peacefully. June IS. 1886. His
faculties were undimmed to the last.
he was eighty-five.
James MOnroe-At the time of his
death, which occurred in the seventy
third year of his age, July 4, 1881, it was
assigned to no other cause than en-
feebled health.
John Quincy Adams-He was stricken
with paralysis Feb. 81, 1913. while adj
dressing the speaker of the house of
representatives, 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 June s.
1916, Seventy-eight years old. He Suf-
fered from consumption. and finally
dropsy, which made its appearance
about six months before his death.
Martin Van Buren-He died July "a,
1862, from violent attack of asthma,
followed by catarrhal affections 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
with severe diarrhea, which would not
yield to medical treatment. His death
occurred April 4, 1S41, a month after
his Inauguration. He was SiXty-eight
years of age.
John Tyler-He died Jan. II, 1862, at
the age of Seventy-two. l have been
unable TO ascertain the cause of his
death.
James K. Polk-In the spring of IS49
he was stricken with slight attack of
cholera while on boat going up the
Mississippi river. Though temporarily
relieved, he had relapse on his return
home and died June Is, 1919, aged fifty
four years.
Zachary TaylOr-He was the second
president to die in office He is said TO
have partaken immoderately of ice
water and iced milk, and then later OF
large quantity of cherries. The result
was an attack of cholera morbus. An
other authority attributes his death to a
severe cold. The former seems the
more likely. He was sixty-six years
old.
Willard FIllmore-He died from a
stroke Of paralysis March S, 1874, in his
seventy-f0urth year
Franklin Pierce-His death was due
to abdominal dropsv. and occurred Oct.
s, 1869. in the SiXty-tiftlI year of his life.
James Buchanan-HiS death occurred
June /, 1868, and was caused by rheu-
matte govt. He was Seventy-seVen years
of age.
Abraham LincOln-He was shot by J.
Wilkes Booth at Ford'S theater, Wash
ington, ID. c., April IA, 1865, and died
the following day, aged tifty-siX.
Andrew Johnson-He died from a
stroke of paralysis July 81, 1879, aged
SiXty-seven.
The deaths OF Grant, Garfield and Ar
thur are recent enough to be remem-
bered by all.