Produced by Chris Curnow, C. St. Charleskindt, Michael and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note This ebook retains the hyphenation and punctuation variations of the original text. A few typographical corrections have been made. Details of these changes can be found in a second Transcriber's Note at the end of this text. [Illustration: THE WHITE HOUSE--HOME OF THE PRESIDENTS.] LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS. TOLD IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. BY JEAN S. REMY. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS._ A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK Copyright, 1900, by A. L. BURT. LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS. BY JEAN S. REMY. CONTENTS. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1 JOHN ADAMS. 16 THOMAS JEFFERSON. 20 JAMES MADISON. 25 JAMES MONROE. 29 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 33 ANDREW JACKSON. 38 MARTIN VAN BUREN. 43 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 45 JOHN TYLER. 47 JAMES KNOX POLK. 49 ZACHARY TAYLOR. 52 MILLARD FILLMORE. 54 FRANKLIN PIERCE. 56 JAMES BUCHANAN. 58 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 60 ANDREW JOHNSON. 66 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT. 68 RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 73 JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD. 75 CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR. 78 STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. 80 BENJAMIN HARRISON. 83 WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 86 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS. [Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON.] GEORGE WASH-ING-TON. Way down in Vir-gin-i-a, near a small creek, called Bridg-es Creek, there is a shaft of white stone;--on it is the name of George Wash-ing-ton and the date of his birth: Feb-ru-ar-y 22d, 1732. On this spot once stood the big brick house in which George Wash-ing-ton was born; it was built in 1657 by John Wash-ing-ton; his grand-son, Au-gus-tine, was the fa-ther of the lit-tle boy who be-came our first pres-i-dent. The moth-er of George Wash-ing-ton was Ma-ry Ball; so sweet and fair was she, when she was a young girl, that she was known as "Sweet Mol-ly."