The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
OUR PRESIDENTS.
A Few Facts Concerning Them of an
Entirely Non-political Character.
From the New York SIM

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have been twentythree Presidents of the
United States" This was conceded
without going to the records.
The first of these" he continued,
| with the easy grace OF man who knew
| what he was talking about, George
Washington, and, by the way George,
who was BORN in 1872, was older thanany
OF his successors. The first to break this
rule was John Quincy Adams. who,
while two years younger than his success
sor, jackson, was not followed by any
other older man. Mr.. Van Buren's sue
cessOr, Harrison, was nine years older
than himself, and no man born before
| either of these was President af-
terward. Following Tyler and Polk
came Taylor, six years older
than Tyler and eleven years older
| than Polk. Following Fillmore and Pierce
came Buchanan, nine years older than
| Fillmore and thirteen years older than
I Pierce MIR. Lincoln was one yearyounger
than johnson; Grant and Hayes were
born in the same year; MIR. Arthur was a
ear older than Garfield, and Mr. Cleve-
and four years younger than Harrison.
S to birthplace six have come from Nir-
,lnla, two each from Massachusetts and
I North Carolina, three from New York
! four from Ohio, and one each from New
| Jersey, kentucky, New Hampshire, Yer
| mont, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Four
! hlON III 4 Lull3 llNt III NEW 1 ULh 1OuT III
! Washington city, three in Tennessee, and
| one each in Massachusetts, New Hamp-
/ shire Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jer-
| sey. Two still live.
There were four Jameses, three Johns,
! two Andrews and one George, Thomas,
! Martin, William, Zachary, Willard,
| Franklin Abraham, Ulysses, Rutherford.
! Chester, Grover and Benjamin Four
teen had no middle names, if we allow
! MIR. Cleveland that privilege. No Presi-
| dent was named in honor of any Presi-
| dent, unless Andrew johnson was named
! for Andrew jackson. OF the months of
| their birth, January, July, August and
! September claim one each 4; February, Oc-
tober 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 in February, March, Septem-
| Der, October and December four in June
! and seven in July; none has died in May,
| August and November; indeed, May does
| not appear 10 be in it at all having neither
| births nor deaths. OF the years, Grant
and Hayes were the only two born in the
| same year, and Adams and Jefferson the
| only two who have died in the same wear
| Garfield was born in the same year that
| saw the death of Mr.. Monroe. Before the
| death of Washington those who had been
| Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe.
| Adams Jr, jackson, Van Buren,, Harri-
| son, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, and Buchanan.
MIR. Buchanan was the last President
| born in the eighteenth century, and Mr.
| Pierce was the first President born in the
| nineteenth, although he was succeeded by
an eighteenth century man buchanan
! Eleven reached or passed three score and
ten: John Adams (9l) reached the most
advanced age; Madison (S5), jefferson (S3)
and Van Buren, 500 were the other four
score men; Monroe, Adams, Jr, Jackson
| Tyler, Fillmore, Buchanan and Hayes
passed the three score point; Garfield (50)
was the youngest to die. w H Harrison
| (6S) was the oldest at the time of his in
auguration; Buchanan was 66 and Taylor
IS; John Adams and jackson were 62, and
all the others were in the SOS. except
Pierce (49), Grant 40 and Cleveland
49,, Grant being the youngest man ever
elected President. w. II. Harrison served
the shortest time, one month; Taylor
served sixteen month and four days, Lin
coin one month and four days on his sec
Ond term, and Garfield served six months
and fifteen days. jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, jackson, Lincoln, Grant and
Cleveland were twice elected, but CleVe-
land alone had to make three trials for
his two elections.
Harrison l., Taylor, Lincoln and Gar
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sassination.
''All were married men at their cleo
tin except Van Buren,, Buchanan, and
Cleveland
Van Buren, was the only one to die in
the town of his birth (kinderhook,
N. ". No President has died out of the
country, though Tyler died at Richmond
while Virginia was out of the union, or. at
least trying TO get out. Adams, Jefferson
and Monroe died on the Fourth Of July;
Monroe five years after the other two
OF the four Presidents born in April. three
jefferson, Monroe and Grant, died in
july and the other (Buchanan) missed it
by only a month; of the four born in
March two died in June, one in January
and one tMr. Cleveland is still living: of
the twenty-three, twelve were born in
the first half of the year, and eleven in
the latter half which is dividing it very
fairly. 1t mightn't occur to you" con
cluded the statisticiau, but John Quincy
Adams, who died in lS4S, having no doubt
seen Washington, Adams (his father, and
the only man whose son was President,
while Harrison's grandson caught it,,
Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, with
jackson and Harrison, who dlod before
| lS4S, could, if he had been so minded and
| had had the requisite foreknowledge,
! have seen all the others, for the oldest
| ivan Buren, was at that time &C., Lincoln
| 49, w. NAHAAN eAa AAhgGS NOuLk men Oh
| 26, while Garfield, Arthur, aud Harrison
| II. were youngsters of 10 to Is, and Cleve-
land, the last born President (lS37). was
| IL.
| Washington, the first president elected
| was the first to die. and he was the only
| President to die in the eighteenth cen
! fury, with only seventeen days TO 20 on.
| AT his death, Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
| Monroe Adams, Jr., Jackson, Van Buren,.
Harrison l., Tyler, / ok, Taylor and Buch-
| anan were living. IL was twenty-six and
/ half years until the next died. and then
/ Adams and Jefferson died on the same
! day llS2Ol in that year two died, and
| two have not died in any year siuce. two
! died IN the thirtles, five in the forties.
none in the hfties, four in the sixties, two
! IN the seven les, three in the eighties.
aud one (HaEes) SO far in the nineties. No
! President died between ls4g anu 1862. the
next longest time after Washington's
| death. one hundred and i've years
elapsed between the birth Of Washington