Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-05-12

torls, the only child or q rresluen
married in the White House. Cleve
lands daughter Esther was the onl,
Presidents child born therein. TIL,
first wife of John Tyler anu the wifi,
OF Benjamin Harrison died ia thu
White House,
Washington, jefferson, jackson ant
Fillmore married widows. jefferson
jackson, Van Buren, and Arthur were
widowers when inaugurated, Tyler
and Harrison became widowers while
In the White House. Tyler, Fillmore
and Harrison were the only Presi.
dents who married twice. Andrew
jackson married divorced woman
Andrew johnson, who took a wife at
the age of nineteen, was the youngest
to wed. and Grover Cleveland, who
was forty-nine years old, when he
married Frances Folsom was the
Oldest. The average marrying age ct
the twenty-three Presidents who be-
came benedicts was twenty-eight
years. John Tyler became the father
OF fourteen children, seven by his
first and seven by his second wife.
Washington, Madison, Jackson and
Polk were childless. The Presidents
wives still living are Mrs. Grant, Mrs.
Garfield, Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Nc.
liinley. The widow of William Henry
Harrison lived to be eighty-nine, and
the widow of James X. Polk to be
lightweight years of age.
y. S. Grant was the youngest per-
son elected President. and William
Henry Harrison the oldest. Grant was
forty-seven when inaugurated and
Harrison sixty-elg I. George Wash
ington was the first ex-President to
die and Rutherford b. Hayes the last.
John Adams, who died at the age of
ninety, lived to lne greatest age, and
James A. Garfield, who died at the
age of forty-nine, from the effects of
an assassin's bunet, was the shortest
lived. John Adams lived twenty-five
years, the longest time, and James X.
Polk three months ana eleven days,
the shortest time, after retiring from
the Presidential office. Four ex-
Presidents, John Adams, Thomas JEFF
ferson, James Madison and John
Quincy Adams, lived to be over eighty
years of age. James Monroe, Andrew
jackson, Martin Van Buren,, John
Tyler, Willard Fillmore and James
buchanan, to be over seventy. Ruther-
ford b. Hayes was in his SEVENTEEN
year when he dled.
Here are few condolences worthy
of note: George Washington, John
Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison were each sixty-six years
old when they retired from the exc
cutive office. John Adams and Thorn.
rs Jefferson, the two Presidents
who were signers of the Declaration
'f Independence, died July 4, 1926, the |
iftieth anniversary of the signing of |
that document. James Monroe died
July 4, 1881. John Quincy Adams and
Andrew Jackson were born in the
same year-the former July II and
he latter March Is, 1857. U. s,
irant and Rutherford B. Hayes were
llso born in the same year--the for
ner April " and the latter October
!, 1922. Jackson succeeded Adams
md Hayes succeeded Grant.
Washington and Madison were
igners of the constitution. Both
igned as Deputies from Virginia, and
Washington as President of the con-
ention.
Washington, Monroe and Jackson
erved in the Revolutionary War;
ackson, William Henry Harrison,
'yler, Taylor and Buchanan in the
Var of 1872; Abraham Lincoln in the
lack Hawk War; Taylor, Pierce and
rant in the Mexican War, and Grant,
layes, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison
nd Mckinley in the Civil War.
John Adams served us Vice-Presi-
ent during the first and second
erms of Washington; Jefferson was
'ice-President during Adams term,
nd Martin Van Buren, during An
rev Jackson's second term. John
dams was the only President who
eryed two terms as Vice-President.
e also enjoyed the exceptional dis
notion OF living to see his son in the
residential chair-something that
lay never happen again during the
STORY Of .ne Republic.
After the expiration Of their Presi-
,ntial terms John Adams served as
member Of the House of Represen-
'tives; Andrew Johnson as a United
tates Senator, and John Tyler as d
ember Of the Confederate Congress.
All the Presidents are accredited
it'll being believers in Christianity.
ashington, Madison, Monroe, Harri-
N, Tyler. Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce
ID Arthur were Episcopalians; John
lams and John Quincy Adams were ,
ngregationalists; Andrew Jackson,
mes Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison /
d Grover Cleveland, Presbyterians;
lrtin Van Buren,, Reformed Dutch;
'raham Lincoln. Andrew johnson, d,
). Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and
illiam Mckinley, Methodists, and
mes A. GARFIELD member Of the 4
sciples or Christian Church. Thorn q
Jefferson. though reputed to be