. Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York . oat, produced inflamma-tion, and terminated fatally on the night of the14th. On the i8th his body was borne with mili-tarj- honors to its final resting-place, and interredin the family vault at Mt. Vernon. Of the character of Washington it is impossibleto speak but in terms of the highest respect andadmiration. The more we see of the operationsof our government, and the more deeply we feelthe difficulty of uniting all opinions in a commonInterest, the more highly we must estimate theforce of his talent and character
. Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York . oat, produced inflamma-tion, and terminated fatally on the night of the14th. On the i8th his body was borne with mili-tarj- honors to its final resting-place, and interredin the family vault at Mt. Vernon. Of the character of Washington it is impossibleto speak but in terms of the highest respect andadmiration. The more we see of the operationsof our government, and the more deeply we feelthe difficulty of uniting all opinions in a commonInterest, the more highly we must estimate theforce of his talent and character, which have beenable U> challenge the reverence of all parties,and principles, and nations, and to win a fame asextended as the Hmits of the globe, and which wecannot but believe will be as lasting as the exist-ence of man. In person, Washington was unusually tall, erectand well proportioned, and his muscular strengthwas great. His features were of a beausiful sym-metry. He commanded respect without any ap-pearance of haughtiness, and was ever seriouswithout being dull,. JOHN ADAMS. JOHN ADAMS. (TOHX ADAMS, the second President and theI first \ice-President of the United vStates, wasV2/ Iorn in Braintree (now Quincj) Mass., andabout ten miles from Boston, October 19, great-grandfather, Henn,- Adams, emigratedfrom England about 1640, with a family of eightsons, and settled at Braintree. The parents ofJohn were John and vSusannah (Bo\lstonJAdams. His father, who was a farmer of limitedmeans, also engaged in the business of .shoe-making. He gave his eldest son, John, a classicaleducation at Harvard College. John graduatedin 1755, and at once took charge of the .school atWorcester, Mass. This he found but a schoolof affliction, from which he endeavored to gainrelief by devoting himself in addition, tc thestud)- of law. For this purpose he placed himself junder the tuition of the only lawyer in the had thought seriously of the clerical profes-sion, but seems to
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