Show our presidents it 13 well lot va to recall abo jabot that pur a ur government law hi its inception in 0 c ial life washington and lie his first babinet C a binet were married moo main T alio lie lorat birst pa PreBi r ilent had two adopted children ilia successor jolin john adams bull a highly gifted wife una anil a son whom he ha lived to see in the tha presidential chilli jefferson WM a deeply bereaved widower adow ills wife died twenty years before w he reached the tha presidency they had eight childbed chil dieD dien all daughters only law two of 0 whom survived infancy tiney in Mili madison alson was marrio talmud d but 11 hal all no children ilia hla aits nits was wag the most elegant woman that ever adorned the hl mannon aukon ste survived him and was waa tor far ciany any years the tha pride of society having lived to listen to henry clays clay a farewell speech in the senate lion alan roes wife mite died early leaving him a daughter in III whose care cara lie ho died aled jackson was a widower and so eo were van buren harrlson und tylor tyler the iha latter soon boon after lis lia elevation married the helices mins Oar lardi dicer loor lid ild was the tha only president that married carnei luring rl x his hia term of polk was waa a inar rind ried man and his hig widow survives suT vives general taylor waa flaa a pierce was waa a married man but Ba bashan ollan an was our first bachelor president and ought to be ba tho the last the tha social condition of such finch men as aa lincoln johnson grant anil and their successors needs no BO reference rafe renco except to add that orant is tho the first president to lave a daughter married while in office alj a obe observed errel that WI tho the otie otio men cien who represented Christ christianity anity washington however was waa the hie only one who while in office was vas a 11 church communicant he ha was au an lian una and was wa defy regular regu lir in his hia ut at ton dance on worship john bohu adams married a daughter ab abigail agail smith bat bedad not he was inclined to unitarianism which in his hia days daya was waa becoming very prevalent in jefferson was not a believer in christianity nt at le least as t while president ile he kod during daring his in france Frai ico become skeptical and his hia election was waa opposed by some borne on tho the score of infidelity after ton tom paine had written the 11 age of reason Kena jefferson JeC Jef Tereon forson invited him to return to america Amerio it which was understood to bo be a direst recognition and nd a n of f his bia opinions infidelity at that time was so ao fashionable that is in poll alita to society it was wag rather eccentric to avow avow different opinions opi niona madison while a student at pr panco mon ton college was waa of a religious reli gioni turn but it wore off under the caret cares of 0 office his hia early religious religions connections wore were presbyterian 11 ion mouton is ia said bald to have favored episcopacy john quincy adams was inclined to unitarianism jackson was waa a methodist and died in the communion cf that church van buren WAS brought tip in the tha reformed datch church but afterwards became inclined to episcopacy harrison favored tho the methodists Metho diata tyler was episcopalian polli polk was wail baptized by a methodist preacher otter after hta his term of 0 office had expired taylor favored episcopacy billmore attended the unitarian Uni church frank pierce was waa a mem member berof of the congregationalist society in ia concord but was not a common leant buchanan was a presbyterian rim lincoln att attended clarless Onri Clar leys ays cherch as often as ai he ha could but was waa not a member t though be u gh hia big religious rel iiona convict convictions iono were deep and grants granta are well known ia A a a met very atry extensive in ia the southwest where alexander campbell campball once exer eier cigna grett influence they bra are much mach like methodists but bat practice tico immersion mer raer sion |