. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. who thought 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, 1849, Mr. Polk retired fromoffice, having served one term. The next day wasSunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inauguratedas his successo
. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. who thought 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, 1849, 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 the dearest nature, it seemed as though long yearsof tranquility and happiness were before him. But thecholera—that fearful scourge—was then sweeping upthe Valley of the Mississippi. This he contracted,and died on the 15th of June, 1849, in the fiftv-fourthyear of his age, greatly mourned by his 7ct^^^...^-y^ y^yt^ TWELFTH PRESIDENT. 63
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