The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-26
DEATH OF PRESIDENTS
M'KINLEY THE FIFTH TO PASS
 AWAY IN OFFICE.
Harrison the First-Adams and Jefferson Died on the Same Day-John Adams
 Oldest,

The death and funeral of President Mo- Kinley suggest the recital of a few facts relative to the manner in which Presi- aeEts have passed away since the es- aolishment or , the rspupae: & ,stiSSs saSS the Presidents have died after finishing their terms of office. William Henry Harri- son the grandfather of Benjamin liar riscn, died after being in office one month. General Taylor lived one year anu one months after being inaugurated. Lincoln was assassinated one month after hls inauguration for the second term, Gar field was shot five months after being inducted into office and President Mo- Kinley was shot after serving one full term and six months of the second. President Polk died at the age of 5, the youngest of all the Chief Magistrates. The oldest was John Adams, who reach- the others have been gathered to their fathrs at periods ranging from lew months to nearl ythirty years after lay ing down the reins of power.
 It is we'll known that Washington contracted the illness from which he ex- pired during long ride in Maryland in the month of December, Cold and wet. land side of the PoIomac, opposite Mou tnVernon. During the night he was attacked with the disease which would morning he was conveyed across the river to his home and surgeons were summoned to attend him. At that time 1t was the belief of the medical profes- flammation was bad blood, and they thought that blood-letting was the sov- ereign remedy. It was applied vigorous ly in his case and there is little doubt that the distinguished patient was bled to death. He died In his sixty-eighth year, about two years after leaving the The funeral of Washington was con- dueted under the Auspices of the Ma sonic frat -rity. and its one hundredth anniversary was observed at Mount Ver- non December H. 1899.
 Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, July 4. 1926, the former at the ad- The date of their deaths was the fftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. and the coincidence was thought most striking at the time; After Adams was the first occupant he retired to Quincy, Mass, where he lived for twenty,-five years and devoted his time would now be termed senile debility In his case a serene old age ended by the slow and natural failure of his physical powers.
 Jefferson retired to Monticello, his country residence in Virginia, where he lived as the oracle of his party for sew rhoea. During the years of his retirement Jefferson exerted great influence upon political affairs by his counsel and by COTTtSpOHueHEe NlLn the ISaueTS or In6 party of which. he was the founder.
 Adams was buried in the First Con- gregational Church cemetery at Quincy, Mass, while Jefferson sleps at Monti- of Independence both he and Adams signed it, and among the last words of Adams few hours before he died, on being reminded that it was the Fourth of July, he said feebly: Independence forever"
 Jmase Madison retired to his estate at Montpelier, Va, where he sought rest from the. troubles of his administration in agricultural pursuits. The end came after seventeen years of quiet country life, and he was sincerely mourned, at at least by the people of Virginia. His bones rest at Montpelier. Madison died of senile debility.
 James Monroe died on Independence Day in 1851 six years after leaving the White HouEe. He retired at first to Oak Hill, his ehuntrS residence In Loudouir County, Virginia, but he was residing fir New York City at the time of his death Death in his case was the result of the general breaking down of his powers a the age of TS. The end was peaceful and his body was inferred in Hollywood - cemetery, Richmond. Va.
 John Quincy Admas did not follow tn, example set by his predecessors and seel quiet from the tolls Of public office Though his administration had beer ments as soon as 1t was over to agaiT enter public life. He was a candidate fol Governor of his native State and latel for Senator Being unsuccessful In this he was elected to represent his distirct Ir the house of representatives, where ht took part in the stormy debates of the period He died in harness, being attack ed by. paralysis at his home in Washing ton after a busy day spent at the capitol The end was sudden and painless af ter seventeen years or faithful service at the age of SO and his resting place Is beside his father, in the Congrega, tional cemetery at Quincy, Mass.
 Andrew Jackson, one of the most pic turesque of our Presidents. retired to his estate, called the Hermitage, near Nash vile. Tenn. Jackson went out of office more popular than when he entered upor its duties. Like the iIlustrious Washing. ton he delivered a farewell address. His journey home, by way of Pttsburg. in the month of March, was slow and tedious but had its compensations, being in the nature of a triumphaly march all the way During the eight years of his re- tirement in the Hermitage. Jackson exer- cised a prodigious influence upon tho was the Mecca of many 3 pilgrimage by the party leaders. and the lavish CT. tertainment of the host has passed into history; ot}on Jackson died June lS45 Of con greatly mourned as the oracle of his party, and his grave was upon the heauti- full estate upon which his declining years were spent.
 The administration of Martin Van Ru- ren is possibly the least known aud the least studied of any in tho history of the Republic. A sarcastic historian has said that it should he read in parenthesis in low tone of voice. It was certainly full of mistakes and he retired from the Presidency under a cloud of political dis. aster. His retirement lasted twenty-one years. until the nation was rent witt civil strife and his name was at that time almost forgotten excepting in the history of Presidents He died at the age of 19 of a.sthmatic catarrh, at Linwood, N. Y- His bones lie in the cemetery at Kinderhook. N. Y.
 William Henry Harrison died In office exactly one month after taking the oath of office. It Is said that his illness. called at the time bilious pleurisy, had its be- inclement weather of the inauguration day. General Harrison was very popu- lar, and his deathS being the first of a President while in office, made mourn full impression upon the country. He had called an extra session of Congress to consider financial questions and the peopl,