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Farmers As Presidents

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Day
3
Month
October
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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In thoee halcyon days ol agriculture 10 pres'dents of ilie United Stutcs were called trom i'ai-nis. 1. Washington, the land surveyor, anti 'armer, from Mouat Yernon. 2. John Atlams, of Quincy, who, during the last year of his presidency, said : "I ara weary, worn and disgusted to leath. I had rather chop wood, dig ditches and make fences upon ray poor Jittle farm. Alas ! poor fa,rm and poorer farally, what have you lost ithat your country might be free !" 3. Jefferson, farmer, plii'.osopher and stntesman, from .Monticello. 4. Madison, farmer and lawyer, of Montpclier, Va. 5. Manroe, farmer, from Oak Hill, Va. 6. John Quincy Adams, from the Quincy farm of 100 acres, near Boston. (It is said that most of the trees wen ralsed by Jolin Quincy Adams from -the seeds which he was in the habit of picking up in his wanderings. The most peculiar interest attaches to a shellbark hickory which he plantod more than 50 years previous to his death. In this tree he took a peculiar satisfaction, but he was an eiithusiast In regard to all trees of the forest, differing in this respect from his father, who was an agik-uHuralist of the Cato stamp - was more inelined to lay an ax to them than to propágate them.) 7. Andrew Jackson, of the "Hermitage," in Tennessee, who, as a farmer, soklier and lawyer, was a most excellent type of the best AmerIcaniem. 8. Van Buren, of Ivinderhook, X. Y., was called to the presidency from his gheep and wool fai-m, although he was tl lawyer of far above average acquirements and nbility. 9. "Wüliam Henry Hairison, from his farm at Xorth Bend, 0. 10. Tyler, of Sherwood Forest farm, Virginia, where ho subsequently died. 11. James K. Polk, of Duck River, Tenn., also came from the farm to the presidency. This selection of presidents from rural homes- from amoixg the farms of the country- illustrates the fact that in tho.se days there was io profcssioai or calling which held :i more pxalted position in public estimation

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