The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-16
PRESIDENTS AND COLLEGES.
Graduates and Men Without Degrees
About Equally Represented.
From the Sun.

From the Sun.
Among the Presidents of the United
States college graduates and those who
either did not attend college or did not
receive college degree are about
equally divided. Mr.. Mckinley was II
years old when he enlisted as a private
soldier in the Twenty third Ohio In
fantry, and about the age when some
other young men are preparing to Sc
cure college diplomas he was fighting
at the front. His immediate predeces-
sor as President, Grover Cleveland. was
represented in the civil war. He sent a
substitute; and when about the same
age at which Mr.. Mckinley enlisted.
went west in search of EMPLOYMENT.
ana afterWard returned to the city of
Buffalo, where he took part ir the COM
pllatlon OF the American Herd Book"
During the civil war Mr.. Cleveland
was assistant district attorney of Erie
county, being appointed to that office
on Jan. l, 1863, He was educated in
onondaga county, but never attended
college.
benjamin Harrison was a graduate
Oh miami University, and the only grad
uate OF that institution to hold the
once or President. Gen. Arthur was a
srauuate or Union college, in Schenec-
tady, and Gen. Garfield was a grad
uate Oh "llllams. X. b. Hayes attended
Kenyon College, and Gen. Grant was
graduate of the Military Academy
at West Point occupying however, a
pace low on the list of graduates.
James Buchanan was a graduate of
Dickinson College and Franklin Pierce
Of Bowdoin. Though Buchanan sue
in OH
had been graduated fifteen years before
Pierce. Polk was graduate of the
University of North Carolina and VIII
liam Henry Harrison of the Hampden
University.
Among the earlier presidents of the
republic, William and Mary College in
Virginia seemed to be a fayorite
Thomas Jefferson was graduated from
there in 1862, James Monroe in l776. the
year of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and John Tyler in 1907. The two
members of the Adams family. John
the second President, and John Quincy
the sixth, We're graduates of Harvard
University, twenty-eight years elaps-
ing between the two. Both of the
Adamses We're of the same age when
they were graduated-20 years. James
Madison was a graduate (and the only
one among the Presidents) of Prince
ton University and Yale. Columbia.
Dartmouth, and Trinity are unrepre-
sented among the Presidents of the
united states, though Samuel j, Tilden
VINO gained clear majority of the
popular vote and of the electoral vote.
too, in 1876, attended Yale College
ana was classmate of William NJ.
EVarts, Chief Justice Waite, and Ed
ward Pierrepont. He was not graduated
from Yale college, however, his fail
ing health and impaired eyesight re-
quiring him to retire after brief term.
George Washington was not a graduate
or any college,; neither was Andrew
jackson; and among the more recent
Presidents, neither Abraham Lincoln
nor Andrew Johnson had college
diploma. Van Buren was not a college
graduate, neither was General TAYLOR.
ana Millard Fillmore, though an ante
bellum statesman of varied gifts and
erudition, did not receive from any col
lege a graduation parchment His
career as an American politician was
somewhat peculiar. He was elected
Nlce-President, promoted to the Presi-
uehcy to fill a vacancy, and when a
candidate for the office was defeated.
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