Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-14
C1LLEGE-BRED PRESIDENTS
FIFTEEN OF THE TwENTY-THREE
LInERALLY EDUCATED MEN.
This Number Includes General Grant
ms a Graduate of the Military Acad-
envy mt West Point--A President
Taught to Write by His wife.


This includes Grant. who was West
Pointer.
Those who never went to college were
Washington. Jackson. Van Buren,, Tay-
lor Fillmore, Lincoln, johnson and
Cleveland.
Sir Richard Steele once said Of Lady
Elizabeth Hastings, that ito love her
was liberal education" one would
probably not be far wrong in saying
the same thing about Washington's
mother. Mary Washington. Washing
ton learned better things from her than
he could have learned from Harvard
or Yale.
His successor at the White House
John Adams, was a Harvard man, and
was graduated In 1755. He had been
sent there with some intention of max
ing him a minister, but, luckily for his
country, he chose law and politics.
Jenerson was graduate of the class
or 1862 OF William and Mary, a college
IN his day, fiourishing institution OF
learning. Jefferson's father had de-
ciared on his deathbed that his son,
then boy, must receive a college ed
ucaton. Jefferson never forgot his
iathers solicitude on this point. say
ING IN later life that II he had had
10 choose between the estate his father
had left him and the education he
WouIu nave taken the latter without
moments hesitation.
Jefferson, It may be added. did more
Tor the cause educat ton than any
otner American Of his time. It has been
SAID that he originated the modern
university ide1. The epltaph on his
tombstone, which he himself wrote. re-
cites that lie vas tho author of the
declaration Of Independence and ia
ther 81 the University OF Virginia"
Madison was graduated from Prince
ton In l712, where he also spent an
additional, or postgraduate year
studying Hebrew.
Monroe, like Jefferson, went to Will
lam and Mary, hut left, before grad
army.
john Quincy Adams was a Harvard
man. or his own accord he left London.
where he occupied the congenial posi-
ton Of secretary 10 his father, In order
10 come To- mis- native country to be
educated, "deeming that an American, |
education wSs the best fitting for an
in 1855.
Jackson was taught only the three |
RS, aud his atia,Ementa in even that |
limited field were said 20 be scanty. |
tie never learned to write the English |
language correctly. His disciple and !
successor, Martin Van Euren, was too
early immersed In Law and politics to
spare the time required for college
william Henry H;t;rison was grad
aate OF, Hampton Sidney College in
virginia. He began the study of medi-
cine. but left {. for the army.
Tyler was the third president to at
tend William aud Mary. where he was
graduated in 1901
POLK entered the University of North
graduated in 1918.
Taylor entered the army when he
was "a, with only rudimentary edu-
cation.
Fillmore received practically no
schooling In his boyhood. His fathers
library contained but two boobs-a
5ible ana a collection OF hymns. Until
re was ~ years old it is said that he
ieYer had seen Shakespeare. a Rob
nson Cruesoe," history of the United
states or even map Of this country
yet he managed to acquire a lSnowt-
dge Of law, and the fact that Sir
lhomas Brown came to be one of his |
aVorite authors shows how widely he
must have extended his reading In
fter life.
Franklin Pierce was graduated from
5,oWdoln In 1874, third in the famous {
lass which included Longfellow and
Nathaniel Hawthorne among its mem
ers. /,
Buchanan was graduated from Dick {
nson college in PENNSYLVANIA In 1909. ,
Lincoln, as everybody knows. was Z
ractically self-taught. He once said
nat he had been brought up in 80 s
lde a country that III straggler sup /
osed to understand Latin happened I
eojourn in the neighborhood he was I
'oked upon as wizard" t
Andrew Johnson was In some re- \
poets the most remarkable instance @
a selt-made man TO be found In the e
ST OF the presidents. He did not know 4
ow to write until he was married. /
men his wife taught him. Not until ]
mad been in congress did he learn to b
rite fiuently. n
Grant was graduated from yvest
olnt in 1s43. 4'oHi west
Hayes went to Kenyon college. Gam g
ler Ohio, and was graduated in lsl2. $
e then spent about two years at Har- !
ard studying law. @
Garfield went first TO the Hiram
lectric school, (sinc renamed Hiram Il
ouege). In Hiram, Ohio. He then en- I
reu tne junior class at Williams. from !
%, with the highest honors. :
arthur was graduate of Union Col
~, IN New York State, in the class
1855. He afterwards attended a Law
hool at Ballston Spa, N. Y.
PRESIDENT Cleveland never went 70
lege, and his knowledge OF law he
armed In a lawyers office.
Harrison got his law in
e same way, but he Is a graduate OF
laml University, Ohio, where he took
$ degree in 1852 '-'N
II VIII be seen that three of the presi-
nus OF the United States have gone {
william and Maiy-Jefrerson. Mon
:, who left before graduating) and
VET Three went to Harvard both ,
e Adamses being graduated from tl,e
nese and Hayes having been a stu
ny AZ the Law School. Hayes, by the
" was the only president who az
nueu any one OF the more irnportnnt
nerican law schools. There are many ]
!. s' l', who were members OF the :,
r,, o9t they studied for admittance in
.rlhseton, Dickerson, Bowdoin. Wi.
s.s' end Union each count one nresi.
y ,l,,-Madison, Buchanan, Pierce car.
~ and Arthur respecttveiv-hut .,
ne, Dartmouth, Amherst and
,uIneih, 10 name some Of the most e
i nt have failed to be thus :.
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