Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-02-12
HOW THE PRESIDENTS DIP.
they Were Heir TO All the Ills of TIA
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George Washington. His death was
the result of severe cold contracted
while riding around his farm in a rain
and sleet storm on December 10.
1899. The cold increased and was fol-
lowed by chill, which brought on
acute laryngitis. His death occurred
on December IA. 1893. He was 6S
years of age.
John Adams. He died from old
age having reached his ninety-first
milestone. Though active mentally
he was nearly blind and unable to
hold pen steadily enough to write.
He passed away without pain on July
A, 1926.
Thomas Jefferson. --He died at the
age of SO, few hours before Adams.
on July 4. 1926. His disease was
chronic diarrhea and, his physician
said, the too free use of the waters OF
the White Sulphur Springs.
James Madison. He. too died OF
old age, and peacefully, on June 2S
1886. His faculties were undimmed
to the last. He was 85.
James Monroe. AT the time OF his
death, which occurred In the seventy
third year of his age. on July A, 1881,
it was assigned to no other cause than
enfeebled health.
John Quincy Adams - He was
stricken with paralysis on February
21, 1913, while addressing the speaker
of the house of representatives being
at the time a member OF congress.
He died in the rotunda of the capitol.
He was 81 years of age.
Andrew jackson. He died on June
g. 1915. 70 years old. He suffered
from consumption. and finally dropsy
which made its appearance about six
months before his death.
Martin Van Buren,. He died on
July "a, 1862, from violent attack OF
asthma, followed by catarrhal affec-
tions of the throat and lungs. He was
so years Of age.
William Henry Harrison. = The
cause of his deaCh was pleuricy. the
result of a cold that he caught on the
day of his inauguration. This was ac-
companied with severe diarrhoa,
which would not yield to medical
treatment HIS death occurred on
April 4, 1871, a month after his in
auguration. He was 90 years of age.
John Tyler. He died on January
II, 1862, at the age of ~. l have
been unable to ascertain the cause of
his death.
James X. Polk the spring Of
1910 he was stricken with slight at.
tack of cholera while on boat going
up the Mississippi river Though
temporarily relieved. he had a relapse
on his return home. and died on June
15. 1949, aged "a 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 re-
suit was an attack of cholera morbus.
Another authority attributes his death
to a severe cold. The former seems
the more likely. He was &C years old.
Willard Fillmore. He died from a
stroke of paralysis on March g 1874
in his seventy-fourth year.
Franklin Pierce. His death was
due to abdominal dropsy, and occurred
on October 8. 1869, in the sixty-fifth
year of his life.
James Buchanan. His death &C.
Cured on June /. 1868. and was caused
by rheumatic govt He was II years
of age.
Abraham Lincoln. He was shot by
j. Wilkes Booth at Ford theater,
Washington. d. c., on April IA, 1865,
and died the following day, aged Sc.
Andrew johnson. He died from a
strske of paralysis. July 81, 1875.
ag@ 81.
The deaths Of Grant, Garfield and
Arthur are recent enough to be re-
membered by all, says American Notes
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