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Washington, first President.�� 1789 and 1793

John Adams�� 1797

Thomas Jefferson�� 1801 and 1805

James Madison�� 1809 and 1813

James Monroe�� 1817 and 1821

John Quincy Adams�� 1825

General Andrew Jackson�� 1829 and 1833

Martin Van Buren�� 1837

General William Henry Harrison (died 4th April)� 1841

John Tyler (elected as Vice-President).�� 1841

James Knox Polk�� 1845

General Zachary Taylor (died 9th July, 1850)�� 1849

Millard Fillmore (elected as Vice-President)� 1850

General Franklin Pierce�� 1853

James Buchanan�� 1857

Abraham Lincoln (assassinated 14th April, 1865)�� 1861 and 1865

Andrew Johnson (elected as Vice-President)�� 1865

General Ulysses S. Grant� 1869 and 1873

Rutherford B. Hayes�� 1877

General J. Abram Garfield (died 19th September, 1881)�� 1881

General Chester A. Arthur (elected as V. Pres.)�� 1881

Grover Cleveland�� 1885

Benjamin H. Harrison�� 1889

Grover Cleveland�� 1893

William McKinley (elected)�� 1897

(Re-elected)� 1901

(Assassinated September 14, 1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (elected Vice-President)� 1901

(Became President September 14)� 1901

Theodore Roosevelt (elected)�� 1905

Wm. H. Taft�� 1909

FACTS ABOUT THE LIBERTY BELL.

Cast by Thomas Lester, Whitechapel, London.

Arrived in Philadelphia in August, 1752.

First used in statehouse, Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 1752.

Twice recast by Pass & Snow, Philadelphia, to repair crack, September,
1752.

Muffled and tolled Oct. 5, 1765, on arrival of ship Royal Charlotte with
stamps.

Muffled and tolled Oct. 31, 1765, when stamp act was put in operation.

Summoned meeting to prevent landing of cargo of tea from the ship Polly
Dec. 27, 1774.

Summoned meeting of patriots April 25, 1775, after battle of Lexington.

Proclaimed declaration of independence and the birth of a new nation at
great ratification meeting July 8, 1776.

First journey from Philadelphia made in September, 1777, to Allentown,
Pa., to escape capture by the British; returned June 27, 1778.

Proclaimed treaty of peace April 16, 1783.

Tolled for the death of Washington Dec. 26, 1799.

Rung on the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of independence July
4, 1826.

Last used in tolling for the death of John Marshall July 8, 1835,

Principal tours: To New Orleans in 1885; Chicago, 1893; Atlanta, 1895;
Boston, 1902; St Louis, 1904.

HOW THE PRESIDENTS DIED.

George Washington's death was the result of a severe cold contracted
while riding around his farm in a rain and sleet storm on Dec. 10, 1799.
The cold increased and was followed by a chill, which brought on acute
laryngitis. He died at the age of 68, on Dec. 14, 1799.

John Adams died from old age, having reached his ninety-first milestone.
Though active mentally, he was nearly blind and unable to hold a pen
steadily enough to write. He passed away without pain on July 4, 1826.

Thomas Jefferson died at the age of eighty-three, a few hours before
Adams, on July 4, 1826. His disease was chronic diarrhoea, superinduced
by old age, and his physician said the too free use of the waters of the
white sulphur springs.

James Madison also died of old age, and peacefully, on June 28, 1836.
His faculties were undimmed to the last. He was eighty-five.

James Monroe's demise, which occurred in the seventy-third year of his
age, on July 4, 1831, was assigned to enfeebled health.

John Quincy Adams was stricken with paralysis on Feb. 21, 1848, while
addressing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, being at the
time a member of Congress. He died in the rotunda of the Capitol. He was
eighty-one years of age.

Andrew Jackson died on June 8, 1845, seventy-eight years old. He
suffered from consumption and finally dropsy, which made its appearance
about six months before his death.

Martin Van Buren died on July 24, 1862, from a violent attack of asthma,
followed by catarrhal affections of the throat and lungs. He was eighty
years of age.

William Henry Harrison's death was caused by pleurisy, the result of a
cold, which he caught on the day of his inauguration. This was
accompanied with severe diarrhoea, which would not yield to medical
treatment. He died on April 4, 1841, a month after his inauguration. He
was sixty-eight years of age.

John

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