Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, 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 . ARTIN VAN BUREN, theeighth President of theUnited States, was born atKinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5,1782. He died at the sameLice, July 24, 1862. Hisjody rests in the cemeteryat Kinderhook. Above it isa plain granite shaft fifteen feethigh, bearing a simple inscriptionabout hall way up on one lot is unfenced, unborderedor unbounded by shrub or flower. T
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, 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 . ARTIN VAN BUREN, theeighth President of theUnited States, was born atKinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5,1782. He died at the sameLice, July 24, 1862. Hisjody rests in the cemeteryat Kinderhook. Above it isa plain granite shaft fifteen feethigh, bearing a simple inscriptionabout hall way up on one lot is unfenced, unborderedor unbounded by shrub or flower. There is but little in the life of Martin Van Burenof romantic interest. He fought no battles, engagedin no wild adventures. Though liis life was stormy inpolitical and intellectual conflicts, and he gained manysignal victories, liis days passed uneventful in thoseincidents which give zest to biography. His an-cestors, as his name indicates, were of Dutch origin,and were among tiie earliest emigrants from Hollandto the banks of the Hudson. His father was a farmer,residing in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother,also of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intel-ligence and exemplary piety. .le was decidedly a precocious boy, deve
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