{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3182", "width": "2279", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "A^* V^^ r.li*y V*^^V\\n.0 ^^^-Z ^*^-\\\\aoV\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab?^ia ,w* ,-j^^o ^^o* f ^K\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i^\\n-4", "height": "3030", "width": "2305", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "o\\n%.o^^ %s^^* V..^ .v^k", "height": "3070", "width": "2279", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A\\nk-\\nT fHE PRESIDENTS\\nFROM ijj6 TO iqoo\\nAND A\\nHISTORY or THE\\nWHITE HOUS\u00c2\u00a3\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2esenied Jay ihe\\nNiLw^RK Life Insurance Comrajvy^", "height": "3055", "width": "2244", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Wtc Presideqt\\n55878\\nJL ibPkii y of Conyirrts\\n1??6 to 1966\\nI vku Copies Receive\u00c2\u00a9\\nOCT 3 1900\\nCopyright totry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nD*- \u00c2\u00bbvHr\u00c2\u00abd to\\nOHOiH DIVISION,\\nn OT 19 1900\\np|istorLJ of tqe ujh te Hou\\nse\\nCopyright, 1900, by the New-York Life INSURANCE COMPANY.", "height": "3020", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1732. DIED, 1799.\\nPRESIDENT, 1789 1797.\\n(aGor^G (/9asl7in^ton\\nXiyAS born in Westmoreland Co., Va., Feb. 22, 1732, and\\ndied at Mt. Vernon Dec. 14, 1799- He left school at\\nthe age of 16, and spent three years\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from 1748 to 1751\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in\\nsurveying. In 1751 he was appointed Adjutant of Virginia\\nTroops. In 1754 he was made Lieut. -Colonel, and commanded\\na regiment in the French War. He was Braddock s aid-de-camp\\nat the latter s defeat in 1755. He was a Delegate to the Vir-\\nginia House of Burgesses, and to the Continental Congress\\n1774-75. In 1775 he was made Commander-in-Chief of\\nthe American Army. When independence was achieved, he\\nretired to his estate at Mt. Vernon. He was President of the\\nConstitutional Convention in 1787, and President of the\\nUnited States 1789-1797. During Washington s term as\\nPresident the Constitution was ratified by North Carolina\\n(1789) and Rhode Island (1790), and the additional States of\\nVermont (1791), Kentucky (1792) and Tennessee (1796) were\\nadmitted to the Union, making sixteen States in all. At this\\ntime there were no regular life insurance companies doing\\nbusiness in the United States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1735. DIED, 1826.\\nPRESIDENT, 1797\u00e2\u0080\u00941801.\\nQolin eAdams\\nAA/ AS horn at Braintree, Mass., Oct. 30, 1735, and died July\\n4, 1826. He was educated at Harvard, studied law,\\nand in 1770 was one of the selectmen in the Boston Conven-\\ntion to protest against British imposts on tea, glass, etc. hi\\n1773 he was a member of the Council of State. In 1774 he\\nwas one of the delegates to the first Continental Congress,\\nwhich met at Philadelphia, and advocated the Declaration of\\nIndependence, and was pronounced by Jefferson the ablest\\nchampion of independence in the Congress. In 1777 he was\\nappointed Commissioner to France. In 1782 he negotiated a\\ntreaty with the Netherlands, and in 1782- 83, with others, ne-\\ngotiated the Treaty of Peace with England. In 1785 he went\\nas the first Minister from the United States to that nation.\\nFrom 1789 to 1797 he was Vice-President under Washington,\\nand was elected President in 1797. At this time there were\\nno regular life insurance companies doing business in the\\nUnited States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "l^dm^rid", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1743. DIED, 1826.\\nPRESIDENT, 1801 \u00e2\u0080\u00941809.\\n^l7omc\\\\s Jefferson\\n\\\\V/^AS born at Shadwell, Va., April 2, 1743, and died July 4,\\n1826. He studied at William and Mary College, and\\nwas a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1769-75,\\nand of the Continental Congress, 1776-78, and drafted the\\nDeclaration of Independence. He was a warm advocate of the\\nabolition of slavery. He was Governor of Virginia 1 779- 8 1\\nmember of Congress 1783- 84; Minister to France 1784- 89;\\nSecretary of State 1789- 93; Vice-President 1797-1801. hi\\n1800 there was a tie vote for President between Jefferson and\\nAaron Burr. Jefferson was elected by the House of Represent-\\natives, and was re-elected by the people in 1804. Louisiana,\\nincluJing the vast territory to the northward, from which eleven\\nStates and one Territory have since been organized, was acquired\\nby purchase from France during Jefferson s presidency, for\\n$15,000,000. By a strange coincidence, he died July 4, 1826,\\non the same day and year as Adams. During Jefferson s first\\nterm (1803) Ohio was admitted to the Union, making seventeen\\nStates in all. At this time there were no regular life insurance\\ncompanies doing business in the United States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1751. DIED, 1836.\\nPRESIDENT, 1809 1817.\\n^ames Madison\\nAir AS born in King George County, Va., March 16, 1751,\\nand died June 28, I836. He graduated at Princeton\\nCollege, N. J., in 1771, and afterwards studied law and practiced\\nat the bar, but gave up the profession for politics when the\\nstruggle for independence began. He was a member of the\\nVirginia Convention in 1776, and a member of the Federal\\nCongress 1780- 83. He was a member of the Convention\\nof 1787, which met at Philadelphia to form the Constitution;\\nmember of Congress 1789- 97; Secretary of State l801- 09;\\nand was elected President in 1808. He endeavored in vain\\nto avert the war with England, which was declared in 1812,\\nand which continued for two years. He was re-elected Pres-\\nident in 1812. During Madison s presidency Louisiana (1812)\\nand Indiana (1816) were admitted to the Union, making nine-\\nteen States in all. At this time there was only one life insur-\\nance company organized to do business in the United States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "^^i^-- y/c r r", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1758. DIED, 1831.\\nPRESIDENT, 1817\u00e2\u0080\u00941825.\\n^aiTiGS Monroe\\n\\\\17AS born in Westmoreland Co., Va., April 28, 1758, and\\ndied July 4, I83I. He entered the Revolutionary Army\\nas a volunteer at the age of eighteen, was present at several\\nbattles, and was wounded at the battle of Trenton. He was\\neducated at William and Mary College, and later studied law.\\nIn 1782 he was elected to the Assembly of Virginia, and in\\n1783 to Congress. In 1788 he was a member of the Virginia\\nConvention, where he opposed the ratification of the Consti-\\ntution, fearing the encroachments of the Federal Government.\\nHe was a Senator in Congress 1 790- 94 was Minister to\\nFrance 1794- 96; Governor of Virginia 1799-1802. In 1803\\nhe was again sent to France to aid in the purchase of Louisiana.\\nHe was Secretary of State 1811-14, and of War 1814- 15.\\nIn 1816 he was elected President, and was re-elected in 1820.\\nIn his annual message to Congress in December, I823, he an-\\nnounced that any interference by European powers in the aflfairs\\nof the South American Republics, for oppressing them or con-\\ntrolling their destiny, would be regarded as the manifestation of\\nan unfriendly disposition toward the United States. This is the\\nMonroe Doctrine. During his presidency Mississippi (1817),\\nIllinois (1818), Alabama (1819), Maine (1820) and Missouri\\n(1821) were admitted to the Union, making twenty -four States\\nin all. Up to this time only two companies for insuring life\\nwere in existence in the United States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "^^f:^ s^^^^^", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1767. DIED, 1848.\\nPRESIDENT, 1825 1829.\\n^ol7n ^uincy eAdams\\nIITAS born at Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1767, and died Feb.\\n23, 1848. He was the eldest son of the second President\\nof the United States, and enjoyed rare educational advantages,\\nstudying in Paris, Leyden and Harvard College, being graduated\\nat the latter in 1788. He was admitted to the bar in 1791, and\\nbegan practice in Boston. He was Minister to the Netherlands\\n1794- 97, and to Prussia 1797-1801; Senator in Congress\\n1803- 08; Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-lettres at Harvard\\nl806- 09; Minister to Russia 1809- 14, and to England in\\n1815- 17; Secretary of State 18l7- 25; chosen President by\\nthe House of Representatives in 182 5 was a member of Con-\\ngress 1831- 48, where he became noted for his advocacy of the\\nright of petition. He died in the Capitol. Only two com-\\npanies had up to this time been organized to write life insur-\\nance in the United States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1767. DIED, 1845.\\nPRESIDENT, 1829 1837.\\n\u00c2\u00a9Andrew ^^ackson\\nV\\\\/AS born in North Carolina, March 15, 1767, and died June\\n8, 1845. He had meagre educational advantages. He\\nserved in the Revolutionary War, and was once taken prisoner.\\nIn 1785 he began the study of the law at Salisbury, North Caro-\\nlina, and began first to practice at Nashville, Tenn., in 1788. He\\nwas a member of Congress from Tennessee 1 796- 97 Senator\\n1797- 98; Justice of Supreme Court of Tennessee 1798-1804;\\ncommanded military forces against Creek Indians 1813-14,\\nagainst British at Pensacola and New Orleans 1814- 5, and\\nagainst Seminole Indians 1817- 18; was Governor of Florida\\n1821; Senator from Tennessee \\\\82]-2S; President 1829- 37;\\nvetoed the bill re-chartering Bank of the United States, and\\nproclaimed supremacy of Federal laws in answer to nullification\\nordinance of South Carolina in I832. During his presidency\\nArkansas (I836) and Michigan (1837) were admitted to the\\nUnion, making twenty-six States in all, and Florida was pur-\\nchased from Spain for ;^5, 000,030. Up to this time only six\\ncompanies had ever conducted a life insurance business in the\\nUnited States.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1782. DIED, 1862.\\nPRESIDENT, 1837 1841.\\nMartin Van ISuren\\n\\\\A7AS born at Kinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1782, and died\\nJuly 24, 1862. He was educated at the Kinderhook\\nAcademy, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in I8O3.\\nHe was Surrogate of Columbia County in I808; State Senator\\n1812- 14; Attorney-General of New York 1815- 19; United\\nStates Senator from New York 1821- 28; Governor of the\\nState 1828- 29; Secretary of State under President Jackson\\n1829-31; Vice-President 1833 7; President 1 83 7- 41 estab-\\nlished the independent treasury system in 1840; was defeated\\nas Democratic candidate for President in 1840, and as Free-\\nSoil candidate in 1848. In 1841 nine companies had been\\norganized in the United States to conduct a regular life insur-\\nance business.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "f ^-S)\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0s^ ^li^-c\\n0^2-^^ i", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1773. DIED, 1841.\\nPRESIDENT, 1841,\\n09illic\\\\m jienry j+c\\\\rrison\\nAITAS born at Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, 1773, and died April 4,\\n1841. He was the son of Benjamin Harrison, one of the\\nsigners of the Declaration of Independence. He was educated\\nin Hampden Sidney College, and in 1791 joined the army led\\nby Wayne against the Indians in the Northwest. He was a\\ndelegate to Congress from the Northwest Territory 1799-1800;\\nGovernor of Indiana Territory ISOl- lj; defeated the Indians\\nunder Tecumseh at Tippecanoe 1811 was member of Congress\\nfrom Ohio 1816- 19; Senator l825- 28 Minister to Colombia\\nl828- 29; elected President in 1840, and died one month after\\ninauguration. In 1841 the Nautilus Insurance Company\\nfor marine, inland navigation, transportation and fire risks was\\nchartered by the Legislature of New York. This organization\\nsubsequently became the New-York Life Insurance Company.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "C ^/iS)\\n.((01^-", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1790. DIED, 1862.\\nPRESIDENT, 1841 1845.\\nQoYin fpyler\\nAITAS born at Greenway, Va., March 29, 1790, and died\\nJan. 18, 1862. He was educated at William and Mary\\nCollege; admitted to the bar in 1809; member of Virginia\\nLegislature 1811-16; member of Congress 1816- 21 member\\nof Legislature l823- 25 Governor of Virginia 1825- 27;\\nUnited States Senator 1827- 36, from which he resigned from\\nunwillingness to obey the instructions of the Legislature. He\\nwas re-elected to the Legislature in 18^8 was elected Vice-\\nPresident of the United States in 1840, and became President\\non the death of President Harrison. He vetoed a bank bill\\nin 1841 and a tarilT bill in 1842. Florida\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the twenty-seventh\\nState to enter the Union was admitted on the last day of his\\nterm of office, and the admission of Texas was agreed upon.\\nAt the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Tyler was President of a\\nPeace Congress, and afterward a member of the Confederate\\nCongress. In 1845 the Nautilus Insurance Company (after-\\nwards the New-York Life Insurance Company) commenced\\ndoing a life insurance business in New York State.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Born, 1795. died, 1849.\\nPRESIDENT, 1845 1849.\\n^ames K. polk\\nTl rAS born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, Nov. 2, 1795, and died\\nJune 15, 1849. He was educated at the University of\\nNorth Carolina; was admitted to the bar in 1820; elected to\\nthe Legislature of Tennessee in I823 was a member of Con-\\ngress from that State 1825- 39; Speaker of the House of\\nRepresentatives l835- 39; Governor of Tennessee 1839- 41\\nPresident of the United States 1845 49. During his adminis-\\ntration the annexation of Texas was consummated the war\\nwith Mexico occurred, resulting in the cession of California,\\nNevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico; England gave up,\\nunder the treaty of 1846, all claim to Oregon, Washington\\nand Idaho; and Iowa and Wisconsin were admitted to the\\nUnion, making thirty States in all. The New- YORK Life had\\nagencies in one State in 1845, in five States in 1846, in nineteen\\nStates in 1847, and in twenty-four States in 1848. In 1849 the\\nCompany had 2,834 policies in force, representing $5,552,000\\nof insurance, and assets amounting to $211,802.52.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1784. DIED, 1850.\\nPRESIDENT, 1849\u00e2\u0080\u00941850.\\n^acl^Giry fpa^lor\\nVy^AS born in Orange County, Va., Sept. 24, 1784, and died\\nJuly 9, 1850. In his early childhood he was taken to Ken-\\ntucky, where he grew up on a plantation, with very meagre\\neducational advantages. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the\\nU. S. Army in 1808; served in the war of 1812, the Black\\nHawk war of I832, and the Seminole war of I837; was\\nmade Brigadier-General in I837 and Commander-in-Chief in\\nFlorida in I838; commanded in Texas in 1845; invaded\\nMexico in 1846 and gained the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca\\nde la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista made Major-General\\nJune 29, 1846; elected President 1848, and died sixteen months\\nafter his inauguration. In 1849 the New-York Life Insur-\\nance Company established agencies in two additional States.\\nIn 1850 the Company was doing business in twenty-six States,\\nhad 3,671 policies in force, representing $7,816,000 of insur-\\nance, and assets amounting to $354,755.24.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "y.z^L^/i^^^^y/ y^:^!^--", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1800, DIED, 1874.\\nPRESIDENT, 1850 1853.\\nMillard pillmore\\n\\\\17AS born at Summer Hill, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1800, died March\\n8, 1874. He was educated at the village school learned\\nthe trade of a wool-carder studied law, and was admitted to\\nthe bar in 1823; was a member of the Legislature 1829- 31\\nmember of Congress l833- 35 and 1837-43; Comptroller of\\nthe State i847- 49; elected Vice-President in 1848 and suc-\\nceeded to the Presidency in 1850, on the death of President\\nTaylor. He signed the Clay Compromise Bill of 1850, and\\nCalifornia was admitted to the Union during his term of office,\\nmaking thirty-one States in all. He was a candidate for\\nPresident on the American ticket in 1856. In 1853 the\\nNew-York Life Insurance Company was doing business in\\ntwenty-six States, and had 3,838 policies in force, representing\\n^10,510,000 of insurance, and assets amounting to $795,910.21.\\nThe first valuation of its policies, according to modern methods,\\nwas made in 1852, and the surplus was found to be ;^25,313.90.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1804. DIED, 1869.\\nPRESIDENT, 1853 1857.\\nPranklin pierce\\nTXTAS born at Hillsborough, N. H., Nov. 23, 1804, and died\\nOct. 8, 1869. He was educated at Bowdoin College;\\nstudied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1827; practiced law\\nin his native town was elected a member of Congress in I833,\\nand to the United States Senate in 1837. He resigned in 1842\\nto take up again his legal profession at Concord, N. H. At the\\nbeginning of the Mexican War he entered the army as a private,\\nand in 1847 was made Brigadier- General. He was elected\\nPresident of the United States in 1852. During his term of\\noffice the Missouri Compromise was repealed, and the Gadsden\\nPurchase made, by which Mexico ceded to the United States\\nparts of the present Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, for\\nthe sum of ^10,000,000. In 1857 the New-York Life was\\ndoing business in twenty-six States, and had 4,259 policies\\nin force, representing $12,778,938 of insurance, and assets\\namounting to ;^1, 361,524. 88.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "^^^2/M.^SU^t^^u", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1791. DIED, 1868.\\nPRESIDENT, 1857 1861.\\nRaines Bacl^anan\\nllTAS born at Stony Batter, Franklin Co., Pa., April 22, 1791,\\nand died June 1, 1868. He was educated at Dickinson\\nCollege, and was admitted to the bar in 1812. Two years later\\nhe entered the Pennsylvania Legislature he was a member of\\nCongress 1821-31 Minister to Russia 1 83 1- 33 United States\\nSenator 1833- 45; Secretary of State under President Polk\\n1845- 49; Minister to England 1853-56; President of the\\nUnited States 1857- 6l. During his administration Minnesota\\n(1858) and Oregon (1859) were admitted to the Union, making\\nthirty-three States in all. The New-York Life established an\\nagency in Tennessee in 1858, and one in San Francisco in 1859.\\nIn 1860 it originated and introduced non-forfeiting policies.\\nIn 1861 the Company was doing business in twenty-eight\\nStates, and had 5,125 policies in force, representing ^16,411,259\\nof insurance, and assets amounting to $2,004,570.14.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1809. DIED, 1865.\\nPRESIDENT, 1861\u00e2\u0080\u00941865.\\neAbraljam bincoln\\nTl^AS born in Hardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12, 1809, and died April\\n15, 1865. His family removed to Illinois in 1816, and\\nafter following the occupations of farm laborer, salesman, mer-\\nchant, soldier and surveyor, he studied law and was admitted to\\nthe bar in I836. He was a Captain in the Black Hawk war in\\n1832; member of the Legislature 1834-42; member of Con-\\ngress 1847- 49; held joint discussions with Stephen A. Douglas\\nas candidate for United States Senator in 1848; elected Presi-\\ndent in 1860 and re-elected in 1864; assassinated April 14,\\n1865. His election brought on the Civil War of 1861 65.\\nOn Sept. 22, 1862, he issued a Proclamation declaring that the\\nUnited States would uphold the freedom of the slaves in all\\nStates or parts of States that should be in rebellion on Jan. 1,\\n1863. The constitutional amendment abolishing slavery was\\nadopted by Congress in December, 1865, and afterward ratified\\nby the States. During his administration Kansas (1861), West\\nVirginia (I863) and Nevada (1864) were admitted to the Union,\\nmaking thirty-six States in all. The New-York Life entered\\nIowa in 1861, Maine and New Hampshire in 1862, Delaware\\nand Minnesota in I863, and Kansas in 1864. In 1865 the\\nCompany was represented in thirty-three States and Territories,\\nand had 16,077 policies in force, representing M5, 485, 726 of\\ninsurance, and assets amounting to M,3 79,007.43-", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Ci^y", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1808. DIED, 1875.\\nPRESIDENT, 1865\u00e2\u0080\u00941869.\\neAndi^GW ^oljnsor^\\nWfAS born at Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 29, 1808, died July 31,\\n1875. He served ten years as an apprentice to a tailor,\\nduring which time he learned to read and write. He was made\\nAlderman of the village of Greenville, and in I830 was elected\\nMayor, serving a term of three years. He was in the Legisla-\\nture from 1835 to I837, and again from I839 to 1841. He\\nwas elected State Senator of Tennessee, and in 1843 was sent\\nto the United States Congress, where he remained for ten\\nyears. He was Governor of Tennessee 185 3- 5 7, and Military\\nGovernor 1862- 64; United States Senator l857- 62; Vice-\\nPresident 1865, and at Lincoln s death succeeded to the presi-\\ndency. He was impeached by the House of Representatives in\\nMarch, 1868, but was acquitted. During his term of office as\\nPresident, Nebraska (1867) was admitted to the Union, making\\nthirty-seven States in all, and the United States acquired Alaska\\nby purchase from Russia for $7,000,000. During this period\\nthe New-York Life re-established its business in the South,\\nand opened agencies in West Virginia and Nebraska in 1865,\\nin Colorado in 1866, North Carolina, South Dakota and\\nWyoming, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, and Ontario in\\n1868. It also purchased the ground at 346 348 Broadway\\nand began the erection of a Home Office building. In 1869\\nthe Company was doing business in forty -two States and\\ncountries, and had 33,145 policies in force, representing $102,-\\n132,513 of insurance, and assets amounting to $11,798,857.73.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": ";^?i_^\\n;?^7i_^\\nZ-^?^", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1822. DIED, 1885.\\nPRESIDENT, 1869\u00e2\u0080\u00941877.\\nOlyssGS (arat\\\\f\\nAITAS born at Point Pleasant, O., April 27, 1822, and died July\\n23, 1885- He was educated at West Point, graduating\\nin 1843; served through the Mexican War 1846- 48; resigned\\nin 1854 and settled in St. Louis; removed to Galena, 111., in\\n1860 appointed Colonel of 21st Illinois Infantry June 1 7, 1861\\nwas made Brigadier-General August 7; Major-General after\\ncapture of Fort Donaldson in February, 1862; Major-General\\nU. S. A. after capture of Vicksburg July 4, I863 Lieutenant-\\nGeneral in March, 1864; General July 26, 1866; elected Pres-\\nident 1868 and re-elected 1872; General on retired list March\\n4, 1885. During his administration the Alabama claims were\\nsettled by the Treaty of Washington, a bill for the intlation of\\nthe currency was vetoed, and Colorado (1876) was admitted to\\nthe Union, making thirty-eight States in all. The New-YORK\\nLife established agencies in Montana, Utah, Nevada and New\\nBrunswick in 1869; in Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia, Eng-\\nland and France in 1870; in Germany and Nova Scotia in\\n1871 in Scotland and the West Indies in 1873 i North Da-\\nkota and New Mexico in 1874; in Mexico, British Guiana,\\nManitoba, Belgium and Venezuela in 1876. In 1877 the New-\\nYork Life was doing business in sixty -two States and countries,\\nand had 45,605 policies in force, representing ^127,901,887 of\\ninsurance, and assets amounting to ;^33,5 73,53 7.31-", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1822. DIED, 1893.\\nPRESIDENT, 1877 1881.\\nI^utl7Grford IS. fta\\\\;es\\nVX/AS born at Delaware, O., Oct. 4, 1822; died Jan. 17, 1893-\\nHe was educated at Kenyon College and the School of\\nLaw at Harvard. In the year 1845 he began to practice in\\nLower Sandusky, Ohio, and was City Solicitor of Cincinnati\\nfrom the year 1859 to 1861. At the breaking out of the Civil\\nWar he was appointed Major 23d Ohio Infantry, and was\\nshortly afterward promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. in\\nthe campaign of West Virginia he took a prominent part, and\\nwas severely wounded at the battle of South Mountain. He\\nwas made Brigadier- General and Brevet Major-General in\\n1864; was member of Congress 1865- 67; Governor of Ohio\\n1868-72, and again in 1876. In that year he was the Repub-\\nlican candidate for the presidency, and certain electoral votes\\nbeing claimed by both parties, a Commission, appointed by\\nCongress, gave the disputed votes to Hayes. In 1879 the\\nNew- York Life adopted plans for the enlargement of its\\nHome Oflire building. It began business in Russia and Ireland\\nin 1877; in Switzerland and Italy in 1878; in Austria, Hawaii\\nand Washington in 1879; in Arizona, Algeria and Norway in\\n1880; and in British India in 1881. In the year 1881 the\\nCompany was doing business in seventy-two States and coun-\\ntries, and had 53,927 policies in force, representing $151,-\\n760,824 of insurance. Its assets amounted to $44,159,5 58.09.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1831. DIED, 1881.\\nPRESIDENT, 1881.\\n^arriGS oA. QarfiGld\\n\\\\1/AS born at Orange, O., Nov. 19, I831, and died Sept. 19,\\n1881. His early life was spent upon a farm. He was\\ngraduated at Williams College in 1856; was instructor in and\\nPresident of Hiram College 1856 61 member of Ohio Senate\\n1859-61; Lieutenant-Colonel 42d Ohio Infantry 1861; com-\\nmanded Union forces and gained a victory at battle of Middle\\nCreek, January, 1862; Brigadier-General and Major-General\\nand Chief of Staff to Gen. Rosecrans I863 member of Congress\\n1863-80; member of Electoral Commission 1877; elected\\nSenator and President 1880; assassinated July 2,1881. In the\\nyear 1881 the Company paid to its policy-holders ^5,091,820.23,\\nincluding ;^25,000 paid on the life of President Garfield.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1830. DIED, 1886.\\nPRESIDENT, 1881 \u00e2\u0080\u00941885.\\n(;l7GstGr qA. eArfl7ur\\nWAS born at Fairfield, Vt., Oct. 5, I830, and died Nov. 18,\\n1886. He was graduated at Union College in 1848;\\nstudied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851 was appoint-\\ned Inspector-General of the New York State National Guard\\nin 1861, and subsequently Quartermaster-General of the State\\ntroops; was Collector for the port of New York 1871-78;\\nelected Vice-President of the United States 1880, and on the\\ndeath of President Garfield he succeeded to the presidential\\noffice. The New-York Life began business in Indian Terri-\\ntory, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, U. S. of Colombia, Ecuador,\\nPeru, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Brazil in 1882;\\nCosta Rica, Chili, Argentina, Uruguay, New South Wales and\\nCape Colony in I883 Newfoundland, Victoria, China, Queens-\\nland and the Philippine Islands in 1884. In 1885 the Company\\nwas doing business in ninety-six States and countries, and had\\n86,418 policies in force, representing $259,674,500 of insur-\\nance, and its assets amounted to $61,623,472.67.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1837.\\nPRESIDENT, 1885 1889. 1893 1897.\\n(aro\\\\;Gt (^leOGland\\nXA/AS born at Caldwell, N. J., March 18, I837. When quite\\nyoung his parents removed to Fayetteville, N. Y. He\\nstudied at the Clinton Academy, read law in Buffalo, was ad-\\nmitted to the bar in 18S9; practiced law in Buffalo, and in\\n1863 was appointed Assistant-District- Attorney for Erie County.\\nHe was Sheriff of the county 1871-74, and in 1882 was\\nelected Mayor of Buffalo. In the same year he was elected\\nGovernor of New York, and two years later was elected\\nPresident of the United States, being the first Democratic Pres-\\nident after the Civil War. He was nominated again in 1888,\\nbut was defeated by Benjamin Harrison. He was elected Presi-\\ndent a second time in 1892, and at the conclusion of his term\\nof office he became associated with a law firm in New York.\\nUtah was admitted to the Union during his second term (I896;,\\nmaking, with the six admitted 1889-1893, forty-f]ve in all.\\nThe New-York Life began business in Sumatra, Straits Set-\\ntlements, New Zealand, Northwest Territory, Bolivia and Dutch\\nGuiana in 1885; in South Australia, Java, West Australia, Fiji,\\nHungary and French Guiana in 1886; in Celebes and Japan\\nin 1887; in Bulgaria, Servia and Siam in 1888; in Tripoli\\nin 1893; in Parajruay and Alaska in 1894; and in Borneo\\nin 1895. In 1889 the Company was doing business in II3\\nStates and countries and had 150,381 policies in force, repre-\\nsenting 5495,601,970 of insurance, and its assets amounted\\nto $97,846,079.43.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "y", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1833.\\nPRESIDENT, 1889 1893.\\nlSenJG\\\\min |^*c\\\\rrison\\nVyAS born at North Bend, O., Aug-. 20, I833. He was a\\ngreat-grandson of Benjamin Harrison, one of the signers\\nof the Declaration of hidependence, and grandson of the ninth\\nPresident of the United States. He graduated from Miami\\nUniversity in 1852; studied law in Cincinnati, and in 1854\\nremoved to Indianapolis, Ind., where he began a legal practice\\nwhich subsequently became very extensive. He joined the\\nUnion Army in 1862 and served until the close of the war,\\nretiring with the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General. He was de-\\nfeated as Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana in the\\nyear 1876. Five years later he was elected to the United States\\nSenate, where he served for six years. He was elected President\\non the Republican ticket in 1888. During his term of office as\\nPresident six new States were admitted to the Union\u00e2\u0080\u0094 North,\\nand South, Dakota, Montana and Washington in 1889, and\\nIdaho and Wyoming in 1890, making forty-four in all (1890).\\nThe New-York Life began business in Egypt in 1889; in\\nNew Caledonia in 1890; in Tunis and Oklahoma in I89I; and\\nin Roumania in 1892. In 1893 the Company was represented\\nin one hundred and twenty-two States and countries, and had\\n253,876 policies in force, representing ;^779,1 56,678.00 of insur-\\nance, and its assets amounted to $138,571,211.59.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "^V-r-7-7-^^^^", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "BORN, 1844.\\nPRESIDENT, 1897-\\n09illiam McKinley\\nAirAS born at Niles, O., Jan. 29, 1844. He served in an\\nOhio regiment during the Civil War and attained the\\nrank of Major; was attorney of Stark County, O., 1869-71;\\nmember of Congress 1877- 91 Chairman of Committee of\\nWays and Means 1889 91, and author of McKinley Tariff Law\\nof 1890; Governor of Ohio 1891 94; elected President in\\n1896. During his term of office as President the Spanish War\\nof 1898 occurred, by which Cuba was freed from the dominion\\nof Spain, and Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands and Guam\\nwere added to the United States. For the latter the United\\nStates paid $20,000,000. Mr. McKinley was re-nominated for\\nPresident by the Republican National Convention in June, 19OO.\\nSince 1896 the New- YORK Life began business in the Friendly\\nIslands, and was re-admitted to Switzerland, Austria and\\nPrussia, conforming its expenses, its securities and its reports\\nto the rigid requirements of these countries. The Company\\nnow does business in 12} States and countries, under the super-\\nvision of eighty-two governments, and there is no life insurance\\nlaw in the world that it does not comply with. On January 1,\\n1900, it had 437,776 policies in force, representing $1,061,871,-\\n985 insurance the largest number of policies and the largest\\namount of insurance of any regular life insurance company\\nin the world. Its assets at the same date were $236,450,348.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "_^oIki.\\n^c Presidential Sueeessiorj\\nT^HE Presidential succession is fixed by Chapter 4 of the Acts\\nof the Forty-ninth Congress, first session. In case of the\\nremoval, death, resignation, or inability of both the President\\nand Vice-President, then the Secretary of State shall act as\\nPresident until the disability of the President or Vice-President\\nis removed or a President is elected. If there be no Secretary\\nof State, then the Secretary of the Treasury will act and the\\nremainder of the order of succession is as follows: The Secre-\\ntary of War, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General, Secretary\\nof the Navy, and Secretary of the Interior. The acting Presi-\\ndent must, upon taking office, convene Congress, if not at the\\ntime in session, in extraordinary session, giving twenty days\\nnotice. This Act applies only to such cabinet officers as shall\\nhave been appointed by the advice and consent of the Senate,\\nand are eligible under the Constitution to the presidency.\\nK7", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "0r|e yuqared aears\\niq ]|c ^l^ite [sjou\\nBy RENE BACHE.\\n\\\\_Repr mted from The Ladies Home Jo/inial, by permission.\\nse.\\nWHEN Abigail Adams, the first mistress of the White House, jour-\\nneyed from Philadelphia to Washington, in the autumn of 1800,\\nshe found the trip discouraging. The roads were abominable, and the\\ngreater part of a week was required to cover the distance, the lady s\\ncarriage bumping over ruts and the horses floundering through mud-\\nholes until her patience was well-nigh exhausted. Her first impression\\nof the National capital, on reaching it, was decidedly unfavorable, as\\nmay be judged from a letter of about that date, in which she refers to\\nit as only a city in name here and there a small cot without a glass\\nwindow interspersed among the forests.\\nWith the President s dwelling, however, then newly built, she was\\nmuch pleased, and in writing to her daughter, she said The house is\\nupon a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to at-\\ntend and keep the apartments in proper order an establishment very\\nwell proportioned to the President s salary. She adds no comment\\nupon the fact that the lower floor was wholly unfinished, so that she\\nwas obliged to use for reception purposes the large oval room on the", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "second floor, over the Blue Parlor, which is now the library. Indeed,\\nthe first floor was not completed for many years, and in the great East\\nRoom Mistress Abigail used to hang the clothes to dry. She spent\\nonly a few months in Washington.\\nJ\\nTHE White House having first become the residence of the Chief\\nEx^utive in November, 1800, the present year marks the lapse\\nof its first century of occupancy as such. Though the seat of gov-\\nernment was not transferred to Washington until the above date, the\\nmovement was decided upon ten years earlier, and as far back as 1792\\na prize of five hundred dollars was ofi ered for the best plan for a\\nPresidential mansion. It was awarded James Hoban, a young Irish\\narchitect, who had established himself in Charleston, South Carolina,\\nand who was building the large, substantial and picturesque houses\\nwhich still remain characteristic features of that city.\\nHoban s plan was not original, as he took for his model the finest\\ndwelling he had seen up to that time, which happened to be the palace\\nof the Duke of Leinster, at Dublin. His first plan was for a three-\\nstory structure, but this aroused a public outcry on the ground of its\\nextravagance, and the design chosen was reduced to two stories and\\na basement, with a frontage of one hundred and seventy feet. The\\nfunds were supplied by the States of Virginia and Maryland, the for-\\nmer contributing $120,000 and the latter $72,000. On October 18,\\n1792, the corner-stone was laid in a bare field sloping to the Potomac,\\nWashington himself being present on the occasion. So great was\\nWashington s interest in the enterprise that he used his influence to\\npersuade Congress to finish it, and by 1799 the edifice was ready for par-\\ntial occupancy. In 1800 Congress appropriated $15,000 to furnish it.\\nUp to 1828 the East Room was used by the wives of the Presi-\\ndents as a laundry and nursery, for both of which purposes it was\\namply spacious, being eighty feet long by forty feet in width. During\\nPresident Cleveland s first administration he received a visit from a\\nvivacious old lady of seventy, a niece of John Quincy Adams, who was\\neager to take a look at the mansion in which she had spent her child-", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "hood. After some cordial hand-shaking she asked to be conducted to\\nthe East Room, and there, looking around her in bewilderment, she\\nexclaimed Laws-a-massy Is this really the same old room Why,\\na meal barrel used to stand in yonder spot, and over there the\\nwash-tubs! From there to there pointing with her parasol a\\nclothes-line was stretched, and in this corner of the room we kept our\\nplaythings.\\nAS THE FIRST MISTRESS SAW IT\\nn^HE White House, when Abigail Adams first saw it, had neither\\nyard nor fence. Up to 1818 the grounds surrounding it remained\\nan unsightly waste, without grass or shrubbery. Until quite recent\\nyears, indeed, the land about the President s dwelling was a sort of\\nfarm, cultivated patches extending over the greater part of the area\\nnow occupied by the buildings of the Treasury, the War and the\\nNavy Departments. Where the Treasury now stands was a vegetable\\ngarden, and the site of the present gigantic structure on the west\\nwas a fruit orchard.\\nIn those days the lot back of the Executive Mansion, where the\\nchildren roll eggs on Easter Monday, was utilized as a cow-pasture,\\nfour or five cows being attached usually to the White House farm.\\nBeneath the front portico was a dairy, to which water was brought\\nby an inch pipe from a spring in Franklin Square, several blocks\\naway, there being no Potomac water on tap at that time. This dairy,\\nas may well be imagined, was a great source of pleasure to the wives\\nof some of the earlier Presidents. When Andrew Johnson was Chief\\nMagistrate the duties of mistress of the mansion were performed by\\nhis daughter, Martha Patterson, wife of Senator Patterson, of Ten-\\nnessee, who rose every morning soon after daybreak and, with her\\nown fair hands, skimmed the new milk.\\nThose were times of delightful simplicity in domestic affairs.\\nWilliam Henry Harrison actually did his own marketing, whereas\\nnowadays the provisions for the White House are all purchased by a", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "steward, whom the Government pays. No longer does the President s\\nwife get fresh vegetables from her own garden and fresh milk from\\nher own cows.\\nIt was on a fateful day in the year 1814 that Dolly Madison was\\nobliged to play the part of Miss Muffet to the British spider, the\\nlatter being represented by a regiment of red-coated soldiers. The\\nenemy, under General Ross and Admiral Cockburn, had taken posses-\\nsion of Washington and burned the Capitol, and, before departing,\\nthey thought it would be a good idea to destroy the White House\\nalso. The flames started by the British in the White House were\\nextinguished by rain, but next day were rekindled, and the mansion\\nsuffered great damage. After the enemy s departure the Madisons\\ntook up their residence in the famous Octagon House, so called from\\nits peculiar shape, on the north-east corner of Eighteenth Street and\\nNew York Avenue. It was called the Annex Executive Mansion\\nduring its occupancy by President Madison, which lasted until the\\nclose of his administration, March 4, 1817. President Monroe lived\\nin it through the first year of his term, and then moved into the\\nWhite House, which meantime had been reconstructed and repaired\\nunder the direction of its original architect, James Hoban. The\\ntreaty of peace with Great Britain was signed in the Octagon House.\\nHOW THE WHITE HOUSE GOT ITS NAME\\nTHE blackened sandstone walls of the President s dwelling were\\ncoated with white paint, covering up all traces of the mischief\\nthat had been done, and it was from this that the name White\\nHouse was derived. It is not true that the term came, as has been\\nfrequently alleged, from the residence of Martha Custis, Washington s\\nwife, which was similarly designated. Furthermore, it is worth say-\\ning here that, officially speaking, there is no such building as the\\nWhite House, the edifice being always referred to in State documents\\nas the Executive Mansion, or the President s house. At first it was\\nknown as the President s palace, but this gave offense and was dropped.", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "The steady growth of the nation has made necessary a great\\nexpansion of the Capitol at Washington, but nothing has been done\\nto increase the size of the White House, which remains to-day as it\\nwas when first occupied by John Adams and his wife Abigail, at the\\nbeginning of the century. It is entirely adequate as a residence for\\nthe Chief Executive, but unfortunately nearly one-half of it is given\\nup to official purposes, and the result is that the President finds his\\nliving quarters abominably cramped. Of a certainty there is no other\\ncountry in the world where the ruler-in-chief would be penned with\\nhis family in a corner of an office building, with a corps of newspaper\\ncorrespondents in the entry-way, and a horde of people continually\\nwandering all over the place.\\nMrs. Cleveland, when a young bride, complained that the accommo-\\ndations of the Executive Mansion were so restricted as to render it\\nout of the question for her to entertain more than two guests at a\\ntime, and the late Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, at her husband s inaugura-\\ntion, remarked that she was suffering a come-down in the world, in-\\nasmuch as she was moving out of a house with twelve bedrooms into\\none with five. But the most memorable and mortifying exposure of\\nthe inadequacy of the President s home was made in 1860, during the\\nvisit of the Prince of Whales to this country. President Buchanan\\nfelt -obliged to invite him to the White House for five days, and al-\\nthough the President s own family was one of the smallest that ever\\noccupied the official residence, consisting only of himself and his niece,\\nHarriet Lane, he was compelled to stow the Heir Apparent in the\\nroom over the Red Parlor, while giving up his own apartment to the\\nDuke of Newcastle, who accompanied the Prince, and extemporizing\\na shake-down bed for himself in one of the public ante-rooms.\\nINTERIOR OF THE PRESIDENT S HOUSE\\n/^^N the ground floor of the Executive Mansion are four beautiful par-\\nlors the East Room, Blue Room, Green Room and Red Room\\nbut only the last of these is used for family purposes. True, there", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "is nothing in the Constitution or in the statutes to prevent Mrs.\\nMcKinley from doing her sewing in the East Room, if she happen to\\nbe so disposed; and, if it suited his fancy. President McKinley might\\nlounge and smoke in the Blue Room. But the unwritten law of cus-\\ntom forbids such use of the official drawing-rooms, though President\\nMcKinley and his wife frequently receive company in a private way\\nin the Green Room, or even in the Blue Room on occasions. The Blue\\nRoom is the handsomest of the suite of parlors. Corresponding in\\nshape and size to the library just above, it is oval, its walls covered\\nwith blue silk, the ceiling done in blue and gold, and the carpet and\\nfurniture carrying out the same scheme of decoration.\\nThe whole east end of the building on the second floor is given up\\nto public purposes the offices of the President, his secretaries and\\nthe executive clerks, the Cabinet Room and the Telegraph Room. For\\nconvenience, the room last named adjoins President McKinley s own\\noffice, and the electric apparatus which it contains places him in com-\\nmunication by telegraph with all parts of the world, and by telephone\\nwith all points reached by the long-distance system. A special kind\\nof telephone, which has no central, enables him to converse pri-\\nvately with the heads of the Departments. The Cabinet Room is\\nabout one-third as big as it should be, and the library next to it con-\\ntains an inferior collection of books, consisting mainly of out-of-date\\neditions of historical and classical works. A glass door across the\\nmain corridor which runs lengthwise through the White House shuts\\noff the offices described from the sleeping quarters of the family.\\nAN ARMY OFFICER THE HOUSEKEEPER\\nT HE White House is under the charge of an engineer officer of the\\nArmy, who sees that it is run properly, handles the money which\\nCongress provides for the maintenance of the establishment, and acts\\nas Master of Ceremonies at receptions, introducing all comers to the\\nPresident. At present this important office is held by Colonel Theodore\\nA. Bingham. The amount furnished for the maintenance of the White", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "House averages about $20,000 per annum. Congress also gives at\\nintervals considerable sums for refurnishing and repairs.\\nEach winter three State dinners are given at the White House\\nthe first to the Cabinet, the second to the Diplomatic Corps and the\\nthird to the Judiciary. These banquets are exceedingly solemn affairs,\\nand, if it must be confessed, somewhat dull. There is no speech-\\nmaking, and general conversation is out of the question.\\nDuring the present administration the dinners of ceremony at the\\nWhite House have been given customarily in the great corridor which\\nruns through the middle of the building, simply because the State\\ndining-room is not large enough. In the latter apartment it is hardly\\npossible to seat more than fifty guests, and usually it is desirable to\\nentertain as many as eighty on such occasions. This, in fact, is one\\nof the arguments in favor of enlarging the Executive Mansion a\\nstep which is now being advocated. President McKinley is a very\\nhospitable man, and, in addition to the regulation banquets of State,\\nhe has given an unusual number of extra entertainments of the kind.\\nTHE PRESIDENT S ENTERTAINMENTS ARE COSTLY\\nI^RFi dinners given by the President are a serious draft on his purse,\\ninasmuch as, though distinctly official in character, they have to\\nbe paid for out of his private funds. So far as possible, the Propa-\\ngating Gardens of Washington, which always furnish the plants for\\ndecorating the East Room, are drawn upon for roses and other flowers,\\nbut the supply of flowers thus obtainable is nearly always insuificient,\\neven when supplemented by the output of the White House conserva-\\ntories. Commonly it is necessary to buy two hundred dollars worth\\nor so of blossoms to help out. It is probable that the total cost of\\none of these banquets does not fall far short of one thousand dollars.\\nDuring the progress of the dinner the Marine Band, which is\\nreally the President s own musical organization, being always at his\\ndisposal free of charge when he wants it, discourses sweet strains in", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "the adjoining conservatory. Into this conservatory open the windows\\nof the State dining-room, where the men smoke after the conclusion of\\nthe repast. Under previous administrations the President s wife\\ngenerally has sat directly opposite him at these formal banquets, but\\nPresident McKinley always places Mrs. McKinley next to himself, on\\nhis right.\\nPresident Madison revived much of the formal ceremony which\\nThomas Jefferson had discarded, and under his administration great\\nattention was given to the State banquets, no expense being spared\\nin making them as fine as possible. President Jackson disliked cere-\\nmony even more than did President Jefferson, and, preferring a steel\\nfork himself, he always provided each guest with one silver fork and\\none of steel. After dinner he smoked a long-stemmed corncob pipe.\\nHe wished to throw the doors of the White House wide open to the\\npublic, but this idea he was forced to relinquish after the experience\\nof one occasion on which he extended an ill-judged hospitality to all\\ncomers. The carpet in the East Room was ruined by punch which the\\nmob spilt in its eagerness to get at the buckets containing the bev-\\nerage the gowns of many ladies were spoiled and the furniture was\\nbroken. At his farewell reception President Jackson introduced a\\ncurious novelty in the shape of a gigantic cheese, which was cut into\\npieces and distributed among the guests.\\nDICKENS AND IRVING PRESENT AT\\nONE RECEPTION\\nIN President Van Buren s administration the custom of serving eat-\\nables at public receptions came to an end. It had been so abused\\nthat, just prior to the election of 1840, hungry crowds besieged the\\nEast Room, clamoring to be fed and threatening to vote against Mr.\\nVan Buren if they were not supplied with food. Since that time the\\nonly Chief Executive who has provided refreshments on such occa-\\nsions was President Hayes. Although President Hayes offered no wine", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "to his guests, he spent a large part of his salary in entertaining. A\\nsingle entertainment cost him six thousand dollars. President Arthur\\nhad the reputation of giving the most costly dinners of any President.\\nThe White House has been the scene of so many great festivities,\\nand so frequently crowded to its utmost capacity with assemblages of\\nnotable people, that it is hardly possible to pick out any special func-\\ntion as the greatest social occasion in its history. One of the largest\\nthrongs ever gathered there was at President Tyler s last reception,\\nMarch 15, 1842. Charles Dickens, then visiting this country, and\\nWashington Irving, who happened to be at the capital for the purpose\\nof receiving his credentials as Envoy to Spain, were both present.\\nDAYS OF SORROW IN THE EXECUTIVE MANSION\\nnPHE first death in the White House was that of President William\\nHenry Harrison, just one month after his inauguration. Funeral\\nservices were held in the East Room. In September, 1842, the wife\\nof President Tyler died there. The third death was that of President\\nZachary Taylor, July 9, 1850, and the fourth was that of Willie Lin-\\ncoln, who passed away in February, 1862. Frederick F. Dent, father\\nof Mrs. U. S. Grant, died in the Executive Mansion in December, 1873.\\nOn the first day of January, 1883, at the New Years reception in the\\nWhite House, the Minister from Hawaii, who at that time was Dean\\nof the Diplomatic Corps, died of heart disease while making his way\\ntoward President Arthur.\\nPresident Garfield, it will be remembered, though much of his last\\nillness was endured at the Executive Mansion, did not die there, but\\npassed the closing hours of his life at Elberon, New Jersey.\\nColonel Ellsworth, the hero of early war days, lay in State in the\\nBlue Room on the morning of May 25, 1861, and services were held\\nthere in the presence of one of the most distinguished gatherings ever\\nassembled in the apartment. A more notable funeral in the same his-", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "toric parlor was that of the victims of the explosion of the big gun on\\nboard the Princeton, near Alexandria, Virginia, February 28, 1844.\\nThese included Secretary Upshur and the Hon. David Gardiner, of New\\nYork. President Tyler himself only escaped through the circumstance\\nthat, being then much attached to Mr. Gardiner s daughter, he had\\nstopped to listen to her singing in the cabin. He married the young\\nlady on June 26 of the same year. The ceremony was performed in\\nNew York.\\nDuring President Benjamin Harrison s administration the house of\\nMr. Tracy, his Secretary of the Navy, was burned, and Mrs. Tracy and\\nMi3s Tracy lost their lives. The funeral services were held in the\\nEast Room of the White House, an apartment which later was the\\nscene of the last ceremonies for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison.\\nBUT ONE PRESIDENT MARRIED THERE\\nPHE most notable wedding celebrated at the White House was that\\nJ- of Nellie Grant, who was married May 21, 1874, to a young\\nEnglishman, Algernon Charles Frederic Sartoris. She had met him\\non a steamer coming back from England, and it was understood that\\nPresident Grant did not approve of the match at first, partly because\\nhis daughter was only nineteen years old. The ceremony was per-\\nformed at 11 A. M. in the East Room.\\nA breakfast was served in the State dining-room. Fewer than\\ntwo hundred guests were invited, the list comprising chiefly members\\nof the family, distinguished civil officials, officers of high rank in the\\nArmy and Navy, and a dozen or so of the diplomats. The value of\\nthe wedding gifts was estimated at sixty thousand dollars.\\nThe only White House wedding in which the Chief Executive has\\ntaken the bridegroom s part was celebrated June 2, 1886, when Presi-\\ndent Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom, the daughter of his\\nformer law partner. Only a few relatives and notable personages", "height": "3025", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "were asked. There was a singular absence of pomp and display,\\nthough a presidential salute was fired at the Washington Arsenal.\\nThe State apartments were adorned with flowers and tropical plants.\\nThe marriage ceremony was performed in the Blue Room.\\nThe first wedding at the White House was that of Miss Maria\\nMonroe, the President s daughter, in 1820. She married Samuel L.\\nGouverneur. During the Hayes regime Miss Lucy Piatt, a niece of\\nMrs. Hayes, was married at the Executive Mansion to General Russell\\nHastings, a veteran of the Civil War. General Hastings is an intimate\\nfriend of President McKinley, and during the present administration\\nhas been a guest at the White House.\\nTHE BIRTHPLACE OF TEN CHILDREN\\nTHE only child born in the White House to a President of the United\\nStates during his term of office is Esther Cleveland, who was born\\nSeptember 9, 1893.\\nNine other children have been born in the White House Julia\\nDent Grant, born in the closing days of her grandfather s second\\nterm two grandchildren of President Tyler four children of Col.\\nAndrew Jackson Donelson, born during the Jackson administration\\nMary Louise Adams, granddaughter of John Quincy Adams, born in\\n1829 James Madison Randolph, born during the second term of his\\nmaternal grandfather.\\nIt is related that when the corner-stone of the Treasury building\\nwas laid, Andrew Jackson was asked to supply some special memento,\\nand he complied by clipping a lock from the head of baby Mary Don-\\nelson. When little Mary was christened, both Houses of Congress\\nwere invited and the ceremony took place in the East Room, the\\nPresident holding her in his arms Van Buren stood godfather, while\\nCvTa Livingston, daughter of the Secretary of State and the belle and\\nbeauty of the administration, officiated as godmother. A few years", "height": "3055", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "presidentsfrom1700newy_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "ago this same child came, a widowed and saddened woman, to Wash-\\nington, and was glad to accept a clerkship in the great Department\\nwhose corner-stone holds her sunny baby curl.\\nThe salary of the President is, as every one knows, fifty thousand\\ndollars a year. The Government provides him with nearly everything\\nhe requires, barring food, clothing and equipages. It supplies him\\nwith a furnished house, a butler and a housekeeper a stable and one\\ngroom; conservatories filled with flowers, and gardeners to take care\\nof them. Lights, fuel, repairs and a thousand and one incidentals\\nwhich eat up an ordinary man s income are paid for by Uncle Sam.\\nThe President s footman is on the Government pay-roll as a skilled\\nlaborer, and the services of skilled stenographers cost him nothing.\\nHis carriages and horses he purchases himself at the beginning of his\\nadministration. 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