The Dickinson press., 1892-04-23
PRESIDENTIAL DEATHS.
How the Lives of Our Chief Ex-
ecutives We're Terminated.

ecutiveS We're Terminated.
George Wnshington-11is death was
the result OF q severe cold contracted
while riding around his farm in the
rain and sleet storm Dec. 10, 1899.
The cold increased and was followed
by q chill, which brought Oh acute
laryngitis. His death occurred Dec.
II, 1893. He was sixty-cight years
OF age.
John Adams-Ie died from old age,
having reached his n~incty-frst mile
stone. Though active mentally, he
was nearly blind and unableto hold a
pen steadily enough to write. He
passed away without pain July 4,
1926.
Thomas Jetferson-He died at the
age OF SO, a few hours before Adams,
July,4, 1896. His lesease was chronic
diarrhea, superinduced by old age,
and his physicians said, too thefree use
OF the waters OF the White Sulphur
springs.
James Madison-He too died Of old
age, and peacefully, June %, 1886.
His faculties We're undimmed to
the last. He was SIS.
James Monroe-At the time of his
death, which occurred in the seventy.
third year of his age, July 4, 1881, it
vas unsigned to no other cause than
enfeebled health.
James X. Polk-In the spring OF
1910 he was stricken with q slight at
tack OF cholera while on a boat going
up the Mississippi river. Though tenn
porarily relieved, he had q relapse on
his return home and died June Is,
ls49, aged 81 years.
John Quincy Adams-He was strick-
en- with paralysis Feb. 81, 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 jacksonville died June s,
1915, rs years old. He suffered from
consumption, and finally dropsy,
which made its appearance about six
months before his death.
Martin Van Buren-He died july,
"a, 1862, from u violent attack OF
asthma, followed by catarrhal affec.
lions OF the throat and lungs. He
was so years OF age.
William Henry Harr;son.-The
cause of his death was pleurisy, the
result OF q cold whichhe caught on the
day OF his inauguration. This was ac-
companied with severe diarrhea, which
would not yield to medical treatment.
His death occurred April 4, 1871, a
month after his inauguration. He was
G9 years OF age.
John Tyler--He died Jan. IL,
1862, at the age Of ~. Ihave been
unable to ascertain the cause of his
death.
Zachary Taylor-He was the second
president to die in Office. Heis said to
have p%artaken immoderately Of ice
water and iced milk and then later of
q large quantity Of cherries. The re-
suit was an attack OF cholera morbus.
Another authority attributes his
death to a eve cold. The former
seems the more likely. Ho was sc
years old.
Willard Fillmore-He died from a
stroke OF paralysis March 8, 1874; in
his seventy-fourth year.
Franklin Pierce-His death was due
to abdominal dropsy and occurred
Oct. s. 1869, in the sixty-fifth year of
his age.
James Buchanan-His death occur
red June l, 1868, and was caused by
rheumatic govt. He was ~ years
OF age.
Abraham Lincoln-He was shot by
J. Wilkes Booth at Fords theater,
Washington, d. c., April 16, 1865,
and died the following day. aged So.
Andrew Johnson-He died of a
stroke OF paralysis, July 81, 1865,
aged 81.
The deaths of Grant, Garfield, and
Arthur are recent enough to beremem-
bered by all.-American Notes and
Queries.