Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-04-26
how THE PRESIDENTS DIED.

George Washington-His death
was the result of a severe cold con.
tracted while riding around his
farm in a rain and sleet storm OH
December 10, 1899 The cold in.
creased and was followed by chill
which brought OH acute laryngitis.
His death occurred on December IA,
1899. He was sixty-eight years of
age.
John Adams died from old age,
Having reached his ninety. first
milestone. Though active meutally,
he was nearly blind and unable to
hold pen steady enough to write.
He passed away without pain on
July "a, 1926.
Thomas jefferson died at the age
of SO, few hours before Adams, on
July "a, 1926. His disease was
chronic diarrhoea, superinduced by
old age, and, his physician said, the
too free use of the waters of the
white sulphur springs.
James Madison-He, too, died of
old age, and peacefully, June 2S,
1886. His faculties were undimmed
to the last. He was So.
James Monroe-At the time of
his death, which occurred in the
73d year of his age, on July 4, 1881,
it was assigned to no other cause
than enfeebled health.
John Quincy Adams was stricken
with paralysis on February 2l,
l84S, while addressing the speaker
of the House of Representatives,
being at that time a member of
congress. He died in the rotunda
of the capitol, and was 81 years of
age.
Andrew jackson died on June 8,
1845, 78 years old. He suffered
from consumption, and finally
dropsy made its appearance about
six months before his death.
Martin Van Buren, died on July
"a, 1862, from a violent attack of
asthma, followed by catarrhal af-
fections of the throat and lungs.
He was 80 years of age.
William Henry Harrison - The
cause of his death was pleurisy, the
result of a cold, which he caught
on the day of his Inauguration.
This was accompanied with severe
diarrhoea, which would not yield
to medical treatment. His death
occurred on April 4, 1S41, a month
after his Inauguration He was 6s
years of age.
John Tyler died on January IL,
1862, at the age of 72. We have
been unable to ascertain the cause
of his death.
James Knox Polk died June Is,
1849, at Nashville, Tenn, a few
months after his retirement from
office. The term of Polk expired at
~ m. on Sunday, March A, 1849,
aud Taylor was not inaugurated till
noon next day. Meanwhile Hon.
David R. Atchison, president of the
Senate pro tenn, was in effect presi-
dent of the United States for one
day.
Zachary Taylor-He was the Sec
ond president to die in office. He
is sOid to have taken immoderately
of ice water and iced milk and then
later of large quantity of cherries.
The result was an attack of cholera
morbus. Another authority at
tributes his death to a severe cold.
The former seems the more likely.
He was So years old.
Millard Fillmore died from a
stroke of paralysis on March 8,
1874, in his 74th year
Franklin Pierce His death was
due to abdominal dropsy, and oc-
CURED on October 8, 1869, in the
65th year of his life.
James Buchanan-His death oc-
CURED on June l, 1868, and was
caused by rheumatic gout. He was
n years Of age.
Abraham Lincoln was shot by ]
Wilkes Booth at Ford's theatre,
Washington on April IA, 1865, and
died the following day, aged So.
Andrew Johnson-He died from a
stroke of paralysis July 81, 1875,
aged 81.
Ulysses Simpson Grant died July
29, 1885, of cancer of the throat
after a long and painful illness,
aged SO years.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes died
at his home IN Ohio Jan q, 1898
aged II years.
James Abram Garfield was shot
at Washington July 2, 1881, by a
fanatic, Guiteau. He fingered
through the summer, was removed
to Elberon, New Jersey, and died
there Sept. 10, 1881, aged so years.
Chester Alan Arthur died in New
York City Nov. IS, 1886, ased Sc