The times., 1901-03-24
DEATHS OF THE PRESIDENTS
Only Four Passed to the Great Beyond While Serving
Out Their Terms of Office

party, and his grave was upon the beauti-
full estate upon which his declining years
were spent.
The Administration of Martin Van
Buren is possibly the least known and
the least studied OF any in the history Of
the Republic. A sarcastic historian has
said that it should be read in parentheses
IN low tone of voice. 1t was certainly
full of mistakes, and he retired from the
Presidency under the cloud Of political
disaster. His retirement lasted twenty
one years, until the nation was rent with
civil strife, and his name was at that
time almost forgotten. excepting in the
history of Presidents. He died at the age
of seventy nine, of asthmatic catarrh, at
Linwood, n. Y. His bones lie in the Gem
etery at Undertook, 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-
ginning in the exposure incident 10 the
inclement weather of the Inauguration
Day General Harrison was very popular,
and his death, being the first of PreSi-
dent while in Office. made a mOurnfuI
impression upon the country. He had
called an extra session Of Congress to
consider financial questions. and the peO-
pic saw in the hero of Tippecanoe the
savior of the country. The new WING
Administration promised well, and II was
with universal grief that the venerable
President was laid to rest in the cemetery
at North Bend. Hamilton County, Ohio.
John Tyler succeeded General Harrison.
and survived his retirement from ONCE
seventeen years He spent these years at
his home in Virginia He died January IL.
1862. of a bilious attack. and was buried
in Hollywood Cemetery. Because OF the
| interest in the war his death passed al
| most unnoticed IN the Northern States
James X. Polk retired from MS agl-
| tated and inglorious administration in
| 1S49. He sought rest at his home in Nash
/ Vile Tenn. But in the summer of that
year he was attacked by the illness which
| ended his life at the early age of fifty
/ three. He died June Is. 1919, of chronic
| diarrhOea.
| Zachary TAYLOR was one of the brilliant
! soldiers which it has pleased the peOPle
! of the country to honor with the office OF
President. He was the hero OF the Mexi-
| can war, and as the leader OF the wing
| party great things were hoped from him.
| But ne fell victim TO bilious fever one
| year and four months after entering upon
| his duties. He Oled at the age OF sixty
| five in the White House, and was buried at
! Springfield, five miles from Louisville, KY
Millard Fillmore succeeded General Tay-
| lOr and served out the uneXpired term
| He survived his retirement from office
twenty-one years, living the greater por-
tion of the time at Buffalo. y. Y. He
| married a wealthy lady, Mrs. Caroline
| Macintosh. in Albany. Fillmore died at
| the age of seventy-fOur in Buffalo of Sc
| nile debility. He was buried in Forest
| Lawn Cemetery, in that city.
Franklin Pierce died of Inflammation of
| the stomach October 8, 1869. at Concord,
I N. H.,
! Pierce was the unsuccessful candidate OF
the Know Nothing party in the campaign
/ before he retired from office, and the bit
terness of the canvass left an abiding I'M
preston upon his mind. He spent several
years in Europe. On the breaking out OF
the civil war his sympathies were with
the South, and he delivered a strong
speech upon the subject in Concord about
the time of the first departure of troops
to the front. After that he took no ac-
tive part in the struggle.
James Buchanan retired in gloom ano
grief from the Capital in 1851 His Ad-
miniStratiOn had seen the opposing forces
of slavery and abolition marshaling tc
the conflict. He retired to Wheatland
Pa, where he survived seven years. He
died June /, 1853 at the age of seventy
seven, of rheumatic gout.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by
John Wilkes Booth on the night Of Apri
a. 1865. one month after his inauguration
for the second term. The martyred Pres
ident fingered for Il few hours and dice
on the 18th in house still standing OF
Tenth Street in this city. Lincoln wa:
fifty-six years old at the time of his
death, and no ruler of ancient or modern
times was more sincerely mourned thar
he The memory of the funeral Journey
from Washington TO Springfield, III.
where he was buried, is still green in tbs
minds of all men now living.
Andrew Johnson, who. as Vice PreSi
dent, succeeded Lincoln, when his Otficia
term ended, retired for a short time 4
Tennessee, but in course of time wa:
/ EeluTutu u w dSiliilStOu dS St 4ldloI IEOi
that State. Mr.. Johnson died of paralysis
at Carter's Depot, Tenn, July 80, 1875
having lived six years after his retire
ment. He was siXty-siX years old at th'
time of his death. and was buried a
\ Greenville. Green county. Tenn.
| Ulysses 5. Grant retired from the Pres
idenCy after two terms, and the luStr'
of his great name was only temporarily
dimmed by some of the mistakes of hi!
friends. He was still near the nation ,!
heart, and after a triumphal tour OF tn
world. he settled in New York city L
| enjoy a well-earned rest. The last days CT
! Mount McGregor where he went TO maxi
the battle with his last foe a little easier
are among The pathetic incidents of histor,
/ which can never be effaced. The enG
| came July %, 1885, eight years after hi
retirement and when he was at the ag
! OF sixty-siX-
| James A. Garfield received the shot which
ended his life from the hand of Charles ]
| Guteau on the morning of July 2 1881
| Garfield lived six and one-half month
| after taking the oath Of Office III, die
| at ElberOn September 10. 1881. mourne,
! by the nation as Lincoln and Grant ha,
| been, and was reverently laid to rest il
/ Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded Gen
cral Garfield for the unexpired term, sc
| a new example for Vice Presidents VIII
not seek to undo the good work bcgui
, by the President. but carried 1t on Q
! fruition and completeness. He died il
New York city of Bright's disease No
yember IS 1886, at the age of fifty-six
, His remains were inferred in Rural Gem
; etery, Albany, n. Y.