The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ictive of liealth and happiness, because inthat way I have ruined myself, but in that way Ishall live no more. There was no temperance senti-ment or movement as that now exists, at
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ictive of liealth and happiness, because inthat way I have ruined myself, but in that way Ishall live no more. There was no temperance senti-ment or movement as that now exists, at the time,and the assumption of this position by a public mancalled for far more than ordinary devotion to moralprinciple. About this time he became cleik of theCincinnati court of common pleas. In 1888 he re-ceived 73 electoral votes for president of the UnitedStates to 170 cast for Martin Van Buren; but thewhig national convention at Harrisburg, Pa., , 1839, gave him the preference over all othercompetitors as its candidate for that office, and afterthe log cabin canvass which followed, he received240 electoral votes to 60 cast for Van Buren. March4, 1841, he was inaugurated as president at Wash-ington, but died of pneumonia, following a chill, justone month from that day (April 4th), his life, as isnow generally thought, literally worn away and de-stroyed by the hordes of applicants for public office. to whose persecution he was subjected. His bodywas buried in the congressional cemetery at Wash-ington, but a few years later was removed to NorthBend, O. The state of Ohio afterward took a deedof the land in which it reposes, and in 1887 voted toraise money by taxation for a suitable monument tohis memory. Various lives of this greatest andbest of Indian commissioners, pioneer, governor ofIndian Territory and president, have been by W. 0. Stoddard, already noted, has beenf in the preparation of this sketch. PresidentPlarrison died April 4, 1841. HAR
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