Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-16
The Marietta Daily Leader.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1900.
FROM THE FARM
Fourteen Of the Twenty-tour Presidents
Have Come.


planters.
The father of one only, President
Mckinley, was manufacturer. OF
only one William Henry Harrison, is
it recorded that he was a stateman.
One was a tanner and one was sex
ton, the fathers of Grant and Johnson.
Buchanan and Hayes were sons of mer-
chants-but not typical ones. Arthur
and Cleveland were sons Of clergy
men, Law claimed the fathers of Ty-
Ter and John Quincy Adams. Two
Presidents only were farmers or plant
ers-Washington, who was also a sur
veyor, and Lincoln, who soon aband-
oned the farm for the law office. Eight
cen Presidents, more than two-thirds
of the whole number, lived and thrived
on the law. OF these, four began life
as teachers-Adams, Garfield, Arthur
and Cleveland. One only was doctor
William Henry Harrison. One be-
gan life as tanner, Grant; two as
tailors, Fillmore and johnson, the
former later joining the ranks of law
yers. Jackson and Taylor were SOL
diers, as was also Grant.
Fifteen of the Presidents We're col
lege men, five received their education
at public schools, three were self
taught, and Grant was the only West
Point man.
Regarding the ancestry of our Presi-
dents, one-third, or eight, claim
Scotch and Scotch-Irish descent; one,
Madison, was a Welshman, or of
Welsh ancestry and Van Buren, of
Dutch, the remainder or fourteen, had
English forbears.
Elizabeth has been the favorite
name for the mothers of Presidents.
Let all Elizabeths with sons make
note of this. There was Elizabeth
Jones, the mother of Monroe; Eliza
beth Hutchison, mother of jackson;
Elizabeth Bassett, mother of the first
Harrison; Elizabeth Speer, mother OF
Buchanan, and Elizabeth Irwin, moth
er of Benjamin Harrison. The name
of Mary is also well represented, be-
ginning with Mary Ball, Washington's
mother then there is Mary Hoes, the
mother of Van Buren,; Mary Armi-
stead, Tyler's mother, and Mary Nc
Donough, the mother of Johnson. OF
To No fup-Iann panIn1nh
mother of Jefferson, and Jane Knox,
mother of Polk. OF Nancys, also two,
Nancy Hanks, mother of Lincoln, and
Nancy Allison, mother of Mckinley.
The Presidents all married Amer-
can-born women, except John Quincy
Adams, whose wife, Louisa c. John
son, was born in London, England,
where they were married.
While Virginia claims most of the
men who have been at the head of the
Nation, the ladies of the White House
have preferred New York as a birth
State six claiming it, Virginia and
Ohio each gave four Presidents wives.
Eight other States are represented
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri.
There has been only one bachelor
President, Buchanan.
1t seems that not even in the good
old times of 100 years ago was it the
fashion to have large families. Wash
ington and Madison had no children,
nor had Polk. Tyler carries off the
palm in the way of olive branches
with thirteen. The first Harrison
comes next with ten, and Hayes fol-
lows with eight. Four children have
ben the Presidential average number,
beginning with John Quincy Adams,
who had four; so had Van Buren, Tay-
lor, Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland.
Two is the next favorite, or the num-
Der of children born to Monroe. Fill
more, Arthur, Harrison and Mckinley.
Jackson anl Pierce each had three.
John Adams, Johnson and Garfield
had five, and Jefferson six, all girls.
Cleveland and Harrison are the only
ex-Presidents living. None lived to
the allotted three-score and ten years,
the first Harrison coming nearest to
that age, or 6S. Grant died at 46 years
and Pierce at As. Washington at 81
and the others at ages varying from
52, Lincoln's age to Go.
Natural decline was assigned as the
cause of the death of thrae-John Ad-
ans who was only 81; Madison, who
was 81, and Monroe So.
Four died of paralysis One, Bu-
chanan, of gout. One of cancer,
Grant, and Two were assassinated.
Fever, asthma, dropsey and neuralgia
Of the heart were the other causes OF
death. What is usually regarded as
an infantile Observation-Disclosures
croup-carried off Washington.
Most Of the Presidents are Southern
born, New England has given four
Presidents. New York, New Jersey
and one of the Western States have
been represented at the White House.
Virginia claims the honor of giving
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