Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-13
FEw pRgsIpENrs nAp SONS.
Five Chlet Executives Of tho United states
Died without Issue.

FEW PRESIDENTS HAD SONS,
rive Chlos executives OF tho United statos
Died Without Issue
It il somewhat remarkable fact that
the presidents of the United Stntes had
few male children. Some had none at
all, others daughters only, while, sad.
der still, the sons of several were taken
away by the grim angel early in life
and the longing ambition of their IA
theirs for an extended family tree was
blasted, Washington, Madison, Jack
son and Polk had no issue. jefferson,
Monroe, Fillmore and johnson had no
sons. Buchanan was a bachelor
Pierce's two children, both boys, died
before reaching maturity. Two sons Of
Abraham Lincoln died young, leaving
Robert, who also lost a boy, but has
another living. Benjamin Harrison's
son has a daughter, and his daughter
has son, but there is no male child TO
perpetuate his name.
George Washington's desire for son
must have cost him great disappoint-
ment In his waning years he graft
fed parental longings by adopting the
grandchildren of his wife. These were
George Washington Parke Custis and
Nellie Gusts. But even Washington's
adopted son had NO male issue, and his
only child was married to Gen. Robert
+. Lee. More fortunate than the inn
mortal father of his country Washing
tons brother had sons galore, and the
descendants of these are living in the
old dominion and in other parts of the
United States. Some reside in Jelfer-
son county, w. Va, Others near the old
Washington homestead in Westmore-
land county, and others in Prince Will
liam and Fauquier. Miss Betty Wash
ington, great-grandniece of the gen.
eral, inherited the Wakefield estate,
where the first president was born, and
is still living there to-day with her hus-
band, John L. Wilson.
The name of Adams is legion, and the
blood of two presidents of the United
States runs in the veins of many men of
prominence. The Adamses seem des-
tined to maintain their place in politics
and history. The son of John Quincy
was minister to England during the
civil war, and he, too, was foremost
candidate for presidential honors. Many
of the independent republicans and the
democrats who nominated Greeley in
1872 were anxious to confer that dis
tinction on Charles Francis Adams.
Four sons were born to him - John
Quincy, Charles Francis, Jr., Henry and
Brooks. The two former served in the
late war, and Charles Francis received
the brevet of brigadier general. He at
tanned greatest prominence, however,
as president of the Union Pacific rail-
road. Henry Adams is the well-known
historian, and resides in Washington,
and Brooks, who also devotes himself to
literature, lives in Boston. John Quincy
Adams, the second, the son of Charles
Francis, was twice nominated for gov
ernor Of Massachusetts, and his two
sons, George and Charles Francis, dis
tinguished themselves in recent years
at Harvard in the football field and in
aquatics. Another son of John Quincy
the second, who emulated the name of
his grandfather, has emulated the pres
idential members of his family in
entering politics, and is now mayor of
Quincy. A second mayor of Massa-
chusetts city is also descendant of the
Adamses-Josiah Quincy, of Boston.
John Adams had another son, Judge
Thomas B. Adams. Two of his children
are living in Boston, and are the only
surviving grandchildren of the second
president. They are 1. Hull Adams and
Miss Elizabeth c. Adams. Both resided
at the white house for time while their
uncle was president. J. @. Adams John
son, Joseph Henry Adams and John
Peter Heylige De Whit obtained admis-
sion to the Society of the Sons of the
Revolution through their descent from
the second president - Washington
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