Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . f histerm he gave his whole influence to the .supportof Mr. Polk, the Democratic candidate for hissuccessor. On the 4th of March, 1845, President Tyler re-tired from the harassments of office, to the regretof neither party, and probably to his own unspeak-able relief The remainder of his days werepassed mainly in the retirement of his beautifulhome—Sherwood Forest, Charl
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . f histerm he gave his whole influence to the .supportof Mr. Polk, the Democratic candidate for hissuccessor. On the 4th of March, 1845, President Tyler re-tired from the harassments of office, to the regretof neither party, and probably to his own unspeak-able relief The remainder of his days werepassed mainly in the retirement of his beautifulhome—Sherwood Forest, Charles City County,Va. His first wife, Miss Letitia Christian, diedin Washington in 1842; and in June, 1S44,he was again married, at New York, to Miss JuliaGardiner, a young lady of many personal andintellectual accomplishments. When the great Rebellion rose, which theState Rights and nullifying doctrines of John had inaugurated. President Tyler re-nounced his allegiance to the United States, andjoined the Confederates. He was chosen a mem-ber of their Congress, and while engaged inactive measures to destroy, by force of arms, theGovernment over which he had once presided, hewas taken sick and soon died. i i^wM. .j^:^ JAMES K. POLK. (I AMES K. POLK, the eleventh President ofI the United States, was boni in MecklenburghC2/ County, N. C, November 2, 1795. Hisparents were Samuel and Jane (Knoxj Polk, theformer a son of Col. Thomas Polk, who locatedat the above place, as one of the pioneers, in1735. In 1806, with his wife and children, andsoon after followed b>- most of tlie members of the ,Polk family, Samuel Polk emigrated some two orthree hundred miles farther west, to the rich val-ley of the Duck River. Here, in the midst of thewilderness, in a region whicli was Maur>- County, they erected their log hutsand establishetl their homes. In the hard toil ofa new fann in the wilderness, James K. the early years of his childhood and
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