Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-27
oDD iNClnENTs sN AMERICAS
 HISTORY

Five presidents of the United States died during their term of office. but only two os them in the Executive Mansion. The three rnartyred presi- dents breathed their last away from the residence of the president. Lincoln in a house in Washington, near Ford's thea tre, where he was assassinated Gar field at Flberon. a seaside resort in New Jersey, and Mckinley at MT Mill burns house in Buffalo.
 The first president to die in the White House was William Henry Harrison. He survived his inauguration only one month. His death occurred on April 4, 1841, more than two score years after. the building was occupied for the first time by John Adams
 Harrison had lacked but two years Of fulfilling the allotted span of man when he went to Washington. Never very robust in health he had passed through most exciting campaign. and made his journey to Washington in an indictment season. The day of his in auguration was cold and gloomy, and he spoke in the open air for an hour About the first of April he caught a chill from careless exposure. which his frame lacked vitality to resist It de- veloped into pneumonia and he died four days later
 The funeral of the first person to die in the White House was & most inn pressive one About his coffin aside from the members of his family. sat the new president, John Tyler. ex- President John Quincy Adams. members of the cabinet. foreign ministers with their representative suites and congress-
 men and their wives Two of the late
 .l pail, and at the foot, upon the table were the Bible and prayer book of the deceased.
 The pallbearers, who numbered twen- ty-six, wore white scarfs and black crepe. The funeral procession Is said to have extended p1ore than two miles and to have contained 10, 900 persons. The body was placed in magnificent fu- neral car. drawn by eight white horses attended by grooms dressed in white The WAS covered entirely with black vel vet embroidered with gold.
 The death of the second and lag president to die in the White House oc 1 cured q little more than nine year, later. President Zachery Taylor I
 seems that even before he took the oatl 1 of office, Mrs. Taylor expressed her in i tuitive belief that something sad o l something dreadful would overtake him President Taylor had been invited tt l attend the laying of the corner stont stone of the Washington Monurnen I 1 was hot July day, and upon returnin, l home he complained of feeling very pros 1 trated. He died on July g. and the fam l fly remained in the mansion until tn funeral was over. In the funeral pro 1 cession the generals war horse follow
 ed his owners body to it's last resting place.
 Three times has the Wlnse Hous | stood swathed in black while it's mis tress lay dead within First. when Mrs | Tyler died; next when Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died and later at the deat1 of President Wilson's wife Mrs lyle l died in 1s42, about one year after tn | death of President Harrison, and her 1 was accordingly the second death with
 in the White House. Mrs. Harrison die l on the 24th of October, 1891 her flu
 neral taking place in the White House O the 27th. Mrs. Wilson died August {
 1914.
 (Tomorrow-How the Presidents Ar Guarded.)