Evening star., 1933-01-22

that the head Of department was ever tor
mented by"
We are told that office seekers killed Presi-
dent Harrison. and be that true or not, we do
know they did not prolong his life, but If any
thing rather shortened his days. Like that of
Washington, his illness began with heavy
cold which he contracted when he was caught
In . shower while taking a long walk before
breakfast Complications soon set in, and for
few days the press was silent, but was finally
forced to announce the patients condition,
which it did on March 81, in reassuring
way. saying:
''The Presidents Health.
"Rumor having already spread the news OF
this indispositon Of the President 1t is deemed
proper to say here, from information which
may be relied upon, that he was attacked on
Saturday last by severe pneumonia, which.
we are gratiied to learn, had, at late hour
last evening, been in a great measure subdued.
His attending physician considered him. last
evening, decidedly better, and entertain little
doubt of being able, very soon, to relieve the
public mind entirely from apprehension of the
consequences of the attack
COUR days later the end came and the fol-
lowing announcement was made by the
members Of the cabinet then in the city,
washington, April 4, 1841.
"An all-wise Providence having suddenly
removed from this life William Henry Harrison,
late President of the United States, we have
thought it cur duty in the recess of Congress
and in the absence of the Vice President from
the seat of Government, to make this aflicting
bereavement known to the country by this
declaration, under our hands
He died at the Presidents House. in this
city. this 4th day of April. Ammo Demini,
1s41. at 80 minutes before l O'Clock in the
morning.
"The people of the United States, over
whelmed, like ourselves. by an event SO un-
expected and so melancholy, will derive con-
ISOLATION from knowing that his death was
calm and resigned, as his life had been patri-
otic, useful, and distinguished; and that the
last utterance Of his lips expressed a fervent
desire for the perpetuity Of the Constitution
and the preservation Of its true principles
In death. as in life. the happiness of his
country was uppermost in his thoughts
Daniel Webster. Secretary of State.
Thomas Ewing. Secretary of the Treasury
John Bell, Secretary Of War.
j. J. Crittenden Attorney General
Francis Granger. Postmaster General"
Immediately after the death Of the President,
the cabinet members joined in a letter to Vice
President Tyler at his home in Williamsburg
which was conveyed by Mr.. Webster, jr. chief
clerk Of the Department of State, he being
accompanied by Mr.. Beal officer of the Sem
ate. "By the extraordinary despatch" we are
told, used in sending the official intelligence"
Mr.. Tyler arrived in Washington on April 6,
and took up his lodgings at Browns Hotel.
where, at IL O'Clock noon on that day. he took
the oath Of office before William Cranch,
chief judge of the Circuit Court of the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
1t Is said that the procession incident to the
funeral Of the deceased President was 2
miles long His remains were temporarily
placed in the public vault at Congressional
Cemetery, until they were conveyed to North
Bend. Ohio. where they now repose in the
Harrison Tomb, opposite Congress Green
Cemetery.
THE next President to die in Washington was
John Quincy Adams perhaps the most in
tellectual of all our Chief Executives, just as
his mother Is reputed to have been the most
learned and cultured of the ladies Of the White
House.
President Adams born in Quincy, Mass,
July IL, 1857. As boy he was unusually
bright, and accompanied his father twice to
Europe, the first time in 1778 when in the
18th year of his age
He attended a university abroad and gradu-
ated from Harvard in 1887; studied law and
commenced practice in Boston in 1791 At the
early age of q he appointed by President
Washington Minister to The Hague, and on
account of his youth, was generally referred
to as Gen Washingtons Boy Minister Later
he filled a similar post in Portugal. He took
his seat in the United States Senate in 1903
resigned in 1903 From 1909 to 1914 he was
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