El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-21
A FEW CURIOUS FACTS.
The First enc" Ever Elected
President.
OHIO A E.MOTHER OF PRESIDENTS

| VIII Mckinley BE the Twenty-fourth or
the Twenty-ffth Fresident?-Where Our
| Presidents Were Born, Their Educations
| and Professions.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2G.-[Special Pres
ident Mckinley will be the first NC"
| ever in the White House. 1t is Il curious
| fact that no other man with INC" pre-
| fix to his name has ever even been voted for
| for president in the electoral college, with
| the single exception of General Mcclellan,
| who was an unsuccessful candidate for the
| presidency in 1864. Nor has Me- ever
| been voted for for vice president in the cleo
| toral college.
| Mckinley will be the first private soldier
| in the White House-that is to say, the
| first man of military career to reach the
| White House after starting out in the
| ranks
! The Mother of Presidents.
With the accession of Mckinley to the
| chief magistracy Ohio crowds Virginia I'M
| comfortably close for the honor of being
| "the mother of presidents. " Virginia still
| holds the record, with seven of her sons in
| the White House. Washington, Jefferson,
| Madison, Monroe, the first Harrison, Tyler
| and Taylor were born in Virginia. Ohio
| is next in mum Der, with Grant, Hayes, Gar
| field, the second Harrison and Mckinley.
| North Carolina is next in order with three
| Jackson, Polk and Johnson. New York
/ is credited with two-Van Buren, and Fill
| more. Massachusetts, has had the honor
| twice-the two Adamses. New Hampshire
| was the birthplace of Pierce, Pennsylvania
| of Buchanan, kentucky of Lincoln, Yer
mont of Arthur and New Jersey of Cleve-
| land.
| Will Mckinley be the twenty fourth or
| the twenty fifth president of the United
| States? 1t is all matter of opinion. The
| term for which he has been elected is the
| twenty eighth presidential term. The first
/ term began in 1889, and between 1889 and
1897 is 1OS years, which gives % completed
! terms March 4, 1897 But Mckinley is the
| twenty fourth man to hold the office of
president Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
| Monroe jackson, Lincoln, Grant and
| Cleveland having been elected to two terms
| each and William Henry Harrison, Taylor,
Lincoln and Garfield having died in office
| and been succeeded by vice presidents. Nc
| Kinley is the twenty first man to be elected
| president in the twenty eighth term. But
| Grover Cleveland was elected to the TWEEN
| ty-fifth term and again to the twenty
| enth term. Shall he count but once,
| the twenty second president, leaving Nc
Kinley to be the twenty third, or shall he
| be called both the twenty second and TWEEN
| ty -fourth-which he was in actual line of
| accessiOn-leaying Mckinley to be the
| twenty fifth?
AS to Nationality.
Mckinley adds another president to the
| credit of tho Scotch-Irish. The English
| still lead, however, with II presidents de-
| seconded from English stock on their IA
| Tiers side. Fiye-.TacksOn, Polk, Buchan-
an, Arthur and McKinley-were Scotch
Irish Three-A1onroe Grant and Hayes
were Scotch. One - jefferson was
| Welsh. One-Van Buren, was Dutch
| All the others were English.
Mckinley makes the ninth president to
| bear the same Christian name as his ia
| ther-the two Adamses, Madison, Jack
| son, Tyler, Buchanan, Hayes, Garfield and
| Mckinley.
James appears to be the favorite presi-
Dental name it having been borne by five
presidents. John is second, three presi-
| dents; Andrew third, two presidents. 1t is
| rather remarkable that there has been but
one George in the White House, only one
Thomas and SO far only one William. Nc
| Kinley will make the second of this last
pHtrOnymic.
Only two families have sent two men
each to the presidential chair-the Adamses
and the Harrisons
The fathers of II of the presidents were
farmers or planters. Those whose fathers
had other vacations were: Buchanan and
Hayes, merchants; John Quincy Adams,
lawyer; the first Harrison, statesman;
Tyler jurist; johnson, sexton and con-
stable; Grant, tanner; Arthur and Cleve-
| land, clergymen, and Mckinley, iron work
er.
A remarkabl bic fact in the history of our
presidents is that nearly all of them were
born in the winter or spring. The recorG
by months is as follows: January, 1; Feb
ruary, 3; March, Il April, 4; May and
June, 0; July / August l; September,
0; October, 3; November, 4; December, 2.
Locality and Profession.
It is a remarkable fact that four presi-
dents of the United States were born in
two counties of inia-Westmor eland
and Charles City counties. In fact, seven
presidents first saw the light of day in
little section of country through the center
of Virginia. Westmoreland county, in
which were born Washington and Monroe,
is adjoined on the north by King George,
where Madison was born. Twenty miles
to the westward is Orange, which was the
birthplace of Taylor, and Orange is adj
Joined the west by Albemarle, where
Jefferson was born. Only 30 miles south
of Westmoreland is Charles City county,
in which were born Harrison and Tyler
Mckinley adds another to the long list of
lawyer presidents. We have seen that most
of the fathers of our presidents were farm
ers or planters Not so with their distin-
guished sons. They were ambitious. In
early life more than half of the presidents
or 13 including Mckinley, were lawyers.
OF the remaining II, adams, Gar
field, Arthur and Cleveland-were teach
ers who afterward became lawyers. Wash
inEton was a surveyor, afterward becOm-
ing planter The first Harrison was a sol
dier, but he had retired to a farm when elect
ed. Taylor and Grant were always soldiers.
Fillmore and Johnson were tailors, but be-
I,r ,lT,I fa,.r Dr,1
but became lawyer. All but four of the
presidents were educated as lawyers.
Nine presidents had no college educa-
tion-Washington, jackson, Van Buren,,
Taylor. Fillmore, Lincoln, johnson, Cleve-
land and Mckinley. Fifteen We're college
graduates Three-Jefferson, Monroe and
TaylOr-were from William and Mary uni
versty. Two-the Adamses-were from
Harvard. Madison was from Princeton.
The first Harrison was from Hampden
Sidney. Polk was from the University of
North Carolina. Pierce was from Bow