The times., 1901-03-24

The death and funeral of ex-President
Harrison in Indianapolis suggest the re-
cital of a few facts relative to the man
ner in which the Presidents have passed
away since the establishment of the Re
public. With four exceptions the Presi-
dents have died after finishing their
terms of Office. William Henry Harrison.
the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison,
died after being in Office one month Gen
eraI Taylor lived one year and four
months after being inaugurated- Lincoln
was assassinated one month after his
Inauguration for the second term. and
Garfield was shot five months after being
inducted into office President Polk died
at the age of ifty-three, the youngest
of all the Chief Magistrates. The oldest
was John Adams, who reached the age
of ninety Between these extremes the
others have been gathered to their fathers
at periods ranging from a few months TO
nearly thirty years after laying down the
reins of power.
1t is well known that Washington con-
tracted the illness from which he expired
during a long ride in Maryland in the
month of December. Cold and wet, he
reached Marshall Hall, on the Maryland
| side of the Potomac, opposite Mount YER
non. During the night he was attacked
| with the disease which would now be
| called oedema. The following morning he
was conveyed across the river to his
home and surgeons were summoned to
! attend him. At that time IT was the be
| lief of the medical profession that the
cause of congestion or Inflammation was
| bad blood, and they thought that blood
| letting was the sovereign remedy IL was
applied vigorously in his case and there
-, Il fcSf1 1errFic nod z a
tient was bled to death. He died in his
| sixty-eighth year, about two years after
leaving the Presidential Office.
The funeral of Washington was con-
Quoted under the auspices of the Masonic
fraternity, and it's one hundredth ami
| varsarv was observed at Mount Vernon
| December II, 1899
Adams and jefferson died on the same
| day July 4, 1926 the former at the al
! yanced age of 80 and the latter at 50
The date of their deaths was the hftieth
! anniversary of the Declaration of Inde-
| pendence and the coincidence was
| thought most striking at the time. Aftei
! leaving the White House. OF which JohI
| Adams was the first occupant, ne retired
! 10 Quincy Mass, where he lived tol
twenty-five years and devoted his tim'
TO study and reflection. He died OF what
would now be termed sehlle ueDiiisy: I ~ ~, ~
his case a serene old age ended by th'
slow and natural failure OF his pnyslca
powers.
Jefferson retired to Monticello, his coun
try residence in Virginia, where ne llVeC
as the oracle of his party for seventeen
years. and died of chronic diarrhoea. Dur
ing the years of his retirement Jef1ersoi
exerted great influence upon poiltlca
affairs by his counsel and by correspond
ence with the leaders of the party o
which he was the founder.
Adams was buried in the First Congre
gational Church Cemetery at Quincy
Mass while Jefferson sleeps at Montlcei
| To- Jefferson wrote the Declaration OF IN
dependence, both he and Adams slgne,
it. and among the last words OF Adams I
| few hours before he died, on being re
| minded that il was the Fourth OF july h'
said feebly, independence forever
James Madison retired TO ms estate a
! MONTPELIER Va, where he sought res
from the troubles OF his Administration II
agricultural pursuits. The end came atte
seventeen years of quiet country life. AM
| he was sincerely mourned, at least by tn
| neoDle of Virginia. His bones rest a
Montpelier Madison died of senile de
james Monroe died on independence
Day in 1881, six years after leaving thi
! White House He retired at first to Oal
Hill his country residence in Loudoul
County, Va, but he was residing in New
| York CITY at the time of his death. Deatl
| in his case was the result of the genera
breaking down of his powers at the age O
and his body was inferred in Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va:
| .IOhn Quincy Adams ulu not ioiioW til'
example set by his predecessors and seet
| 0,1iet from the tolls OF official life. Though
his Administration had been rather
stormy one. he made arrangements a.
soon as il was over to again enter pub
lie life He was candidate for Governor
of his native State, and later for Sena
tor. Being unsuccessful IN TINS ne Wa
| elected to represent his district IN tnt
House of Representatives. where ne tooi
mart in the stormy debates or the perloe
= He died in harness, being attacked Dy pa
raIvsjs at his home in Washington afte
busy day spent at the Capitol
The end was sudden and painless a1te
seventeen wears of faithful service al
an ex-President in Congress. He died a
the age of eighty. and his resting piac'
; is beside his father, in the congregational
: Cemetery, at Quincy, Mass.
, An1reW Jackson one of the most pic
+,irasnue of our Presidents, retired to hi
estate called the hermitage, near Nash
= JiIje Tenn Jackson went out or ohlc
, more popular than when he entered upoI
its duties. Like the iIlustrious Washing
E TON ne delivered a farewell address Ill
iourney home by the way or PittsDurl
. in the month of March, was SLOW ana te
d;ous but had it's compensationS. being 1
the nature of q triumphal march all IN
yav During the eight years OF ms re
f | tirement at the Hermitage, jackson eA
| ercised a prodigious influence upon IN
; councils of his party. The Hermitage wa
J. | the Mecca of many pilgrimage py IN
| marty leaders, and the LAVISH entertain
! ment of the host has passed INTO hlstof!
Jackson died June s. lS45, of consumption
n az the age of seventy-eisht. He wa
a greatly mOurned as the oracle Oh IL