The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

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. sarcastic historian has
said that it should be read in parentheses
in a 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 seyenty-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. 1t is said that his Illness, called
at the time bilious pleurisy, had its be-
ginning in the exposure incident TO the
Indictment weather Of the Inauguration
Day. General Harrison was very popular,
and his death. being the first of a Presi-
dent while In office. made a mournfu,
impression upon the country. He had
called an extra session of Congress to
consider financial questions, and the peo-
pie saw in the hero of Tippecanoe the
savior of the country. The new Wing
Administration promised well, and 1t 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 office
seventeen years. He spent these years at
| his home in Virginia He died January II.
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 his ''agi-
| tated and inglorious administration in
| 1919. 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 or
President. He was the hero of the Mexi-
can war. and as the leader of the Wing
| party great things were hoped from MIN.
But ne fell a 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.
Willard Fillmore succeeded General Tay-
lor and served out the unexpired term
He survived his retirement from office
| twenty-one years, living the greater por-
ton of the time at Buffalo, n. Y. He
married a wealthy lady Mrs Caroline
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 j9fiamm ntboa, Of
N. H., at the age of sixty-four. Mr..
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 and
grief from the Capita in 1861 His Ad-
ministration had seen the opposing forces
of slavery and abolition marshaling to
the conflict. He retired to Wheatland.
Pa. where he survived seven years. He
died June /. 1868, at the age of seventy
seven. of rheumatic govt.
| Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by
| John Wilkes Booth on the night of April
H. 1865 one month after his inauguration
for the second term. The martyred Pres
ident fingered for a few hours and died
on the 18th in a house still standing on
Tenth Street in this city. Lincoln was
| fifty-six years old at the time of his
death, and no ruler of .cient or modern
| times was more sincerely mourned than
he The memory of the funeral journey
from Washington to Springfield, Ill,
where he was buried is still green in the
minds of all men now living.
| Andrew Johnson, who as Vice PreSi-
dent, succeeded Lincoln, when his official
term ended. retired for a short time to
Tennessee, but in course of time was
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 the
time of his death, and was buried at
Greenville. Green county, Tenn.
Ulysses S. Grant retired from the Pres
idency after two terms. and the lustre
of his great name was only temporarily
dimmed by some of the mistakes of his
friends. He was still near the nations
heart, and after a triumphal tour OF the
world he settled in New York city to
enjoy a well-earned rest. The last days en-
Mount McGregor. where he went to make
| the battle with his last foe n little easier.
are among the pathetic incidents of history
/ which can never be effaced. The end
came July %. 1885, eight years after his
retirement, and when he was at the age
| OF sixty-siS.
James A. Garfield received the shot which
| ended his life from the hand of Charles J.
. | Guiteau on the morning of July 2 1881
Garfield lived six and one-half months
after taking the oath Of office He died
; at ElberOn September 10. 1881. mourned
, by the nation as Lincoln and Grant had
been, and was reverently laid to rest in
, Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland Ohio.
. Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded Cen
cral Garfield for the unexpired term, set
q new example for Vice Presidents who
! succeed to the office of President. He did
! not seek to undo the good work begun
) | by the President. but carried 1t on to
: ] fruition and completeness. He died in
New York city of Bright's disease No
| yember IS lSs6, ut the age Of flfty-six-
! | His remains were Inferred in Rural Gem
5 etery, Albany, n. Y.