Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . it all wrong. In the prosecutionof this war, we expended twenty thousand lives andmore than a hundred million of dollars. Of thismoney fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1S49, Mr. Polk retired fromoffice, having served one term. The next day wasSunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inauguratedas his successor. Mr. Polk rode to the Capitol in thesame carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even-ing, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return toTennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of had e
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . it all wrong. In the prosecutionof this war, we expended twenty thousand lives andmore than a hundred million of dollars. Of thismoney fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1S49, Mr. Polk retired fromoffice, having served one term. The next day wasSunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inauguratedas his successor. Mr. Polk rode to the Capitol in thesame carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even-ing, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return toTennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of had ever been strictly temperate in all his habits,and his health was good. With an ample fortune,a choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic tiesof tlie dearest nature, it seemed as though long yearsof tranquility and happiness were before him. But thecholera—that fearful scourge—was then sweeping upthe Vnlley of the Mississippi. This he contracted,and died on the i5tli of June, 1849, ? C fiftv-fourthyear of his age, greatly mourned by his counuymen. ^^^^^SkP^k--.
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