. Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis counties, Missouri ; containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . hroat, produced inflamma-tion, and terminated fatally on the night of the14th. On the 18th his body was borne with mili-tary 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
. Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis counties, Missouri ; containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . hroat, produced inflamma-tion, and terminated fatally on the night of the14th. On the 18th his body was borne with mili-tary 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 to challenge the reverence of all parties,and principles, and nations, and to win a fame asextended as the Umits 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 .sym-metry. He commanded respect without any ap-pearance of haughtiness, and was ever seriouswithout being JOHN ADAMS. JOHN ADAMS. nOHN ADAMS, the second President and theI first Vice-President of the United States, wasv2? born in Braintree (now Quincy) Mass., andabout ten miles from Boston, October 19, great-grandfather, Henry Adams, emigratedfrom England about 1640, with a family of eightsons, and settled at Braintree. The parents ofJohn were John and Susannah (Boylston)Adams. 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
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