The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-14

lege. No president was named n
honor of any president, unless Andrew
Johnson was named for Andrew Jack
son. OF the months Of their birth Jan
u2Ty, July, August and september
claim one each; February, October and
November have three each: December
has two; March and April have four;
May and June are not president
months. Two have died in January
and April each; one each IN February,
March September, October and Decem-
Der; four N June and seven in July;
none has died in May, August and No
ve1nber: indeed. May does not appear to
be in at all. having neither births nor
deaths OF the years Grant and Hayes
were the only two born in the same
wear. and Adams and Jefferson the
only two who have died in the same
wear Garfield was born the same
year that saw the end of Mr.. Monroe.
Before the death Of Washington those
who had been president or were wait
ing to be were Adams, jefferson. Mad
ison, Monroe, Adams, .Ir., Jackson, Van
Buren,, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor
and buchanan.
Mr.. Buchanan was the last president
born in the eighteenth century and
Mr. Pierce was the first president borI
in the nineteenth, although he was
succeeded by an eighteenth century
man buchanan. Eleven reached or
passed threescore and ten: John
Adams (9D reached the most adj
vanced age; Madison $50, jefferson
(s3) and Van Buren, $50 were the 9th
or foursccre men: Monroe Adams, il,
jackson, Tyler, Fillmore, Buchanan
and Hayes passed the threescore poiD.;
Garfield $50 was the youngest to die.
W. II. Harrison (6S) was the oldest st
the time cf his Inauguration; Buch-
anan w.s &C and Taylor 65; JoF n
Adams aod Jackson were CO and ali ire
others were in the sos, except Pierre
(i9), Grant 90 and Cleveland 90,
Grant being the youngest man ev2r
elected president. ". III. Harrison
served TIE shortest time, one month;
TAYLOR served sixteen months and fonr
days, Lincoln one month and elevsn
DAYS on his second term and Garfi5id
served siG months and fifteen days.
jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jacksen,
Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland wnre
twice elected, but Cleveland alone had
10 mako three trials for his two elcc-
tiOnS.
Harri:c IN l.. Taylor, Lincoln and CIR
field diec in Office, the latter two by
assassination.
All wers married men at their csc
ton except Van Buren,, Buchanan I'D
Clevelarl.
Van Blren was the only one to dis in
the iowa of his birth (kinderhool%, \.
". No president has died out of the
country, though Tyler died at II en-
mond, while Virginia was out of the
union, or. at beast, trying to get put.
Adams, jefferson and Monroe died on
the Fonrtn of July, Monroe five years
after the other two. OF the four pres
idents born in April three Jefferson,
Monroe and Grant died in July, and
the o..;ler buchanan missed it by only
a monrh: of the four born in March
two 6ied in June, one in January
and .ae (Mr. Cleveland) is stili
living. OF the twenty-three twelve
were Soro in the first hals o.
the YEA. ard eleven in the latter hal;,
whick is dividing it very fairly. H.
mighta't occur TO you," concluded the
statisyciar, but John Quincy Adams,
who SEED IN 1S4S, having, no doubt,
seen Washington, Adams (his fathe.
and tnt only man whose son vas q
presi6Szlt. while Harr;son's grandson
caughr it,, Jefferson, Madison and
Monroe, with jackson and Harrison,
who did before 1s4S, could, if he hal
been 50 minded and had had the req
uisite foreknowledge, have seeo all
the others, for the oldest Wan Buren,
was at that time o3, Lincoln was 80,
Grant and Hayes young men ot &c,
while Gartield, Arthur and Harrison ii.
were youngsters of Is to IS, and ClSve-
land, tie last-born president Qs37),
was Il.
Washington, the first president
elected, was the first to die, and he was
the only president 10 die in the eigh.
teenth century, with only seventeen
days to go on. At his death Adams,
jefferson, Madison. Monroe, Adams, Jr.,
Jackson, Van Buren,, Harrison l., Ty.
Ter, Polk, Taylor and Buchanan were
living. 1t was twentv-six and hall
years until the nex1 died, and then
Adams and jefferson lied on the same
day us26). IN that year two died and
two have not died in any year since;
two died in the sos, five in the '40S,
none in the sos, four in the COS. two in
the '70s, three in the SOS and one
Wayes) so far in the '9oS. No president
died between 1910 and 1862, the next
longest time after Washington's death.
One hundred and five years elapsed be-
tween the birth Of Washington and
that of Cleveland Q132-lS35l-