Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-08
Grafton of class and sectional lines.
First Publisher President =
Warren C. Harding is the first n

Grafton of class and sectional lines.
First Publisher President. =
Warren G. Harding is the first news
paper publisher to, serve as president of
the United States; He; the goth chief
executive. reckoning Clevelands* two
terms as separate ones because he was
the only president serving twice WHO
was not reelected. "
Nineteen presidents were lawyers at
the tine they were elected. Three are
classified as Statesman; two soldiers;
two as farncrs, !one, as public official.
Mr.. Harding, might also fall within. the
class Of. .statesman;as he:!had",seryed
six years in the rsena to- when elected!
and he"ywas :thc,flrst senator to :be
elected. president. 'srl:" ';:,;; :..,.:'r
Virginia. leads in the nativity Of pres
Iiidents. |, Eight of dhor> sons-Washing-
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,:i Wil-
liam Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and
Wilson-have,held the highest office in
the, gift of the nation. =, ,Hs'..'.
Ohio has given seven native. sons to
the presldcncy-Grant Hayes, Garfield,
Benjamin Harrison. Mckinley, Taft ana
Harding. 49,.
Eighteen presidents have been COL
lcge men, one was graduated from
West Point, nine had no college educa-
tion. - -.
-. First Baptist President.
The twenty ninth president is the
first of Baptist faith. ,s,.s
Mr.. and Mrs. HardlngI have not"yet
made known which church they will
attend, but it may be that the First
Baptist, at Sixteenth and o streets,
Northwest, will. nunnberSthem: among
| its congregation. The Rev. Allen Tup-
per is the pastor of this church. which
is one Of the Oldest, in washington,
having been foundeds11 119 years ago.
OF the nearly 400 churches in the
capital, only nine can count presidents
as once members CT their congregation.
So many chief executives. have attend
ed st. Johns Episcopal church, at Six
teenth and Fl streets, across Lafayette
square from the White House. that it
is known as "The Church Of the Presi-
dents" 1t was built in 1916 when
Washington was arising out Of the ash
es after it's burning by the British in
1912. =. -
Several chief Executives, including
Lincoln, attended the New York Ave
nue. Presbyterian church, a red brick
structure which. stands at the intersec-
tion of New York avenue and H street,
only a few blocks from the White
House. Lincoln was said. to have at
tended many mid d-week prayer servi-
ces at this church unknown to the con-
gregation. He would walk down to the
church, enter little room next to the
assembly room by way of the alley
door, and there in the dark, with the
door open. just a.crack. would silently
remain through the service.
Washington worshipped at .Christs
Church in. Alexandria, which still
stands as q shrine for the visitor. in
search Of memorials of the Father of
His Country; Jefferson and John Ad-
ans attended Old st. Johns Church in
Georgetown.
The church where President Taft. the
only chief executive of the Unitarian
faith, worshipped at Fourteenth and L
streets, has been RACED 10 make way for
a commercial building. President Will
son attended the Central Presbyterian
church at Fifteenth and Irving streets,
Northwest The little Dutch Reformed
church was the one most frequently at
tended by President Roosevelt.
President Mckinley was 4 member OF
the congregation of the Metropolitan
Methodist church as was President
Grant. President Cleveland attended
the First Presbyterian church, while
President Garfield worshipped in. the
Christian church, then little frame
structure on Vermont avenue, on the
same site as the ediice since erected as
a memorial to his memory.