Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . others who thought it all wrong. Inthe prosecution of this war we expended twentythousand lives and more than $100,000,000. Ofthis money $15,000,000 were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retiredfrom office, having served one term. The nextday was Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor wasinaugurated as his successor. Mr. Polk rode tothe Capitol in the same car
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . others who thought it all wrong. Inthe prosecution of this war we expended twentythousand lives and more than $100,000,000. Ofthis money $15,000,000 were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retiredfrom office, having served one term. The nextday was Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor wasinaugurated as his successor. Mr. Polk rode tothe Capitol in the same carriage with Gen. Tay-lor, and the same evening, with Mrs. Polk, hecommenced his return to Tennessee. He wasthen but fifty-four years of age. He had alwaysbeen strictly temperate in all his habits, and hishealth was good. With an ample fortune, achoice library, a cultivated mind, and domesticties of the dearest nature, it .seemed as thoughlong years of tranquillity and happiness were be-fore him. But the cholera—that fearful scourge—was then sweeping up the Valley of the , and he contracted the disease, dying on the15th of June, 1849, in the fifty-fourth year of hisage, greatly mourned by his
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