Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-04-02
RETIRING PRESIDENTS.
What they did Upon Turning the
Office over to their Successors.

held office after their retirement
from the presidency.
President Washington went
from the executive mansion to
his rural home at Mount Vernon
at the age 65 years.
President John Adams arose
before dawn on the morning OF
the 4th of march, 1901, and set
out in his coach for his home
in Massachusetts,, where he spent
the remainder of his life in
peaceful and happy seclusion,
devoting himself to literary
research and correspondence
with his friends, notable Thomas
Jefferson.
He was IS years old at his re-
tirement, and he lived not only
to see his oldest son president,
but to reach the greatest age of
all the ex presidents.
Jefferson retired to Monticello
at the age of GO years, after forty
years of continuous public SER
vice, so seriously impoverish>
ed" as the chronicles have it,
"that he was not sure of being
allowed to leave Washington
without being arrested by his
creditors"
Madison at the close of his
second term, was 60 years ofage.
He spent the rest of his days
with his books and his friends.
President Monroe, when he
retired from the White House,
On March 4, 1925, at 81 years of
age, went to his modest home at
Oak Hill, Louden Co., Va. There
he accepted an election to the
office of local magistrate. He
thought that ex-presidents should
not be party leaders.
The junior Adams left the
executive mansion for retire>
ment, to be soon broken by his
return to Washington as MEM
Der of the house of represent
atives, FIVE years later, in 1881.
In 1848, in the capitol, he died
in the harness, aged 81 years,
and the oldest member of the
house.
"Old Hickory" rode down the
avenue on the 4th of march,
1887, the weather being remark>
ably pleasant, by the side of his
successor, in handsome phaeton
made of wood from the historic
frigate Constitution. The vehi
Gle was a present from the DEM
ocrats of New York. After the
inaugural ceremonies on the
eastern portico, perhaps the first
in the style Of the programme
now in use for such occasions,
he repaired at once to his Her
mitage retreat, near Nashville,
Tenn.
Here his eventfull land aggress-
i've life closed in becoming peace
and grateful retirement in IS45,
at the age Of 70, just seven
years after leaving the ! white
House.
Martin Van Buren, retired in
IS4I to the shades of Linder>
valid. beautiful country seat in
his native COUNTY, Colum bia,
N. Y. He spent the rest OF his
days in the singular enjoyment
of the reflection that the "veto'
had never been exercised by him
while president.
The first Harrison lived Just
one month after his Inauguration.
He had called an extra session
on the 18TH of April, 1s47, but
did not live to that date.
President Tyler retired to his
home, March 4, 1S47,
at the age of o5. He remained |
in retirement until the begin
ming of the civil war, when he
became a member of the Con-
federate congress and died in
1862.
President Polk retired to his
home at Nashville, but survived |
only few months, dying in
1S49, aged 81 years.
President Taylor died at the
executive mansion in 1850, and
Fillmore, who succeeded him,
retired in 1853 to his home in
Buffalo, N. Y, and in 1856 was
the defeated nominee for pres
ident of the National American
party. He died in 1874, aged
"a years.
President Pierce, after the 4th
of March, 1857, retired to his
home in Concord, N. II, where
he died in 1869. aged IS years.
President Buchanan retired
from the executive Office in
1861 to his home near Lancast>
er, Pa and for the remainder of
ais public life was a very much
abused ex~president.
The sad ending of the lives
IF "the nartyred Presidents"
Lincoln I'd Garfield, are tamiliar
history.
President Andrew Johnson
'etired to his home in Green
Il IL |