Monthly Archives: August 2019

August 1, 2019 (Tuesday) Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt, (10/27/1858 – 01/06/1919), died at 60 years of age. He had served as President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He was vice president under William McKinley as McKinley served 6 months of a second term, but became president when McKinley was assassinated. He was 42 […]

August 1, 2019 (Monday) The materials in this blog are copied directly from a web site operating as “The Library of Congress Reading Room.” William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio on January 29, 1843. He enlisted as a private during the Civil War and distinguished himself in […]

Benjamin Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio; he grew up on a farm located near the Ohio River below Cincinnati. His father, John Harrison, was a farmer, and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was elected as the ninth president of the United States in 1840, but died of pneumonia only […]

Chester A. Arthur, the twenty-first president of the United States, was the fifth child of a Baptist minister. He was born on October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont. His Baptist minister father, William Arthur, hailed from Ireland, and his mother, Malvina Stone Arthur, was from Vermont. During Chester Arthur’s childhood, his family moved around Vermont […]

The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association. Synopsis James Garfield was not the first president to die while in office, and he was the second of four presidents to be assassinated.* It was […]