The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-08-02
facts About Presidents.


We have had twenty Iour Presidents ~
10 date, and IT Nr. Bryan is defeated v,
shall hot have par twenty-6fth until 1905
Hitherto Presidents renominated by then
parties lave usually beer reelected. The
four exec ption> we're sohn Adams. defeat.
ed Tor reelection hy fhos. Jefferson in
1850 exactly century ago; Martin Van
Buren,, Grover ClrtrlaLd and BENJAMIN
Harrison. Mr. Beans success would ~.
deed break many Presidential preccdents.
He comes from the ans-Mississippi
( West, a section thit has never before
supplied President He was born in
/ Illinois. the birth ace oi 40 President 30
Tar elected. He would be- the Youngest
man ever chosen g.. President
Our oldest President st the time of hi.
Inauguration was ,Illam Henry Harrison.
b.. Buchanan wa To. Taylor 6J. John
Adams ami jackson we're each ~. and all
OF the others were DO their htties cxcept
Pierce. -. Grant. l.. sud Cleveland +
Grant was our Youngest President on the
dav OF his first Inaugratiln
The birthplaces of our Presidents are
divided among the States a. follows. SIX
nave conc from Virginia, h.e itom On,v.
tnrev nVmNtw York, Two each from
Massachusetts ana NVrth Iarunna ann
one each irom NeM jersey, kentucky.
Ne" hampshire, >ctuVu,, Tenusyiynnta
aud tennessee.
as ~ the Chtlstldn names OF our Presi- |
dents, there have been tour James..
three johns, Two Andrews, two Williams |
AMI one UeUrse, InVInas, 6laItIn, Zachary.
MIliard, rramAnn, Abraham, Ulysses.
Chester, UiUNcrahu BENJAMIN.
r Uurteen "a them baG no luIudle name.
and none vi tncm acre named ia hOpol 81
ANY previous PrcS,dcht--a TACT ahich
shows how sAui! iuul II u 10 name bah,
boy a'tcf Il f'e''uoht III tue nope that a,
may aisV gro" up ana "sel there"
All Our Ptcsluehts have been married
men al tue Time OF their election save
hrce-t all Bu,cn, BUCHANAN ana Oie,e-
anu.
Washington Was the hrst President 10
lie ana the Om! one 10 uic "a tue eiyut-
centu century. AT hI, uvatu Auam,.
clieisOn, hGuisVH, Aonroc. tuo s,couu
adams, Jackson, au Dut,n. inc hast
iai1isVn, i.i,r, ROM, Layton aud bDcn. &
nan we're ali tpIng.
Among tnc CutlJUs IOiucuIeht, IT Co., =
Residential ONCE We. ma, mention tuc
eaths Vi john Adams ana Thomas J,t.
,IsVn on Tine same ual-JuiY /, l~-D. ia
subsequent year have TOO Presidents
led. Grant ANA naAcs Wcte ths only two
DOfn ga the same lca. ,ar-
eid was bosu ia the same ,ear tnai
onroe dled. None OF our Presidents
ave died out ot the country, Though
yler dIcd at. hchmOud Wine \mglnn,
,nsldeicd herself out Ot the mon. Onn
Ie President, John Adams, has had a sou u
ected 10 the Office, and ON, one, William
enry HARRISON, mas had e grandson 10
| II.
Only two eX-Presidcnts are nov living
rover Cleveland ana benjamin Harrison. ~.
he graves OF their PREDECESSORS are as
Idely separated a. tie. States That gave -
EN- birtu. All OF our departed ficsl-
nts lived to Il good old age except Gar- /
Id and Lincoln, who were assassIlatvd.
even OF them hyed we'll into the seven
=, wnlle john Adams lived TO he ~,
flerson % and an buren, So II,
curious tact suggestive OF the youth Ii
our country IS that our sixth PRESIDENT,
I'm Quincy Adams, who dIcd ia lcIr,
rsohaliy knew every. President that pre-
led hn, IA well is Two VINO followed ""
III, and might KAYE seen, il he had been =
ted with the tOreknOMledge and had
red to take the journey, All the Presi-
nts who have succeeded HIM to the
escnt time, including Mr. Mckinley.