Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — What the Presidents Died Of. [ARTICLE]

What the Presidents Died Of.

Rutherford B. llayes was the only mau who ever held the position of President to die of heart disease. .Washington expired of pneumonia, John Adams of natural decline, Thomas Jefferson of chronic diarrhoea, James Madison and James Monroe of natuial decline, John Quincy Adams of paralysis, Andrew Jackson oi consumption, Martin Van Buren of asthmatic catarrh, William 11. Harrison of pleurisy, John Tyler of a bilious attack, James K. Polk of chronic diarrhoea, Zacharay Taylor of bilious fever, Millard Fillmore of natural decline, Franklin Pierce of inflammation of stomach, James Buchanan of rheumatic gout, Abraham Lincoln assassinated, Andrew Johnson paralysis, U. 8. Grant cancer, James A. Garfield assassinated, Chester A. Arthur Bright’s disease. He was one of threa Methodists to become President, Johnson and Grant being the other two. —[Columbus Journal.