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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ass of facts never beforecollected into the same relationship ; and MissCaroline Hazard contributes, two short poems.There is also an editorial department, with notes,notices and other matters of moment, not leastamong which may be found a chapter of intelli-gence from the Sixth International Congress ofOrientalists, held at Leyden, September 10-15,1883, that brought together more than two hun-dred scholars from various parts of the world. Theeditors of the Andover Review are ProfessorsEgbert C. Smyth, William J. Tucker, J. W.Churchill, George Harris, and Edward Y.Hincks. We cordially commend this new en-terprise to the careful attention of our readers. ANNOUNCEMENT-^The Griswold Familyof Connecticut—in three parts, the first of whichappears in our current issue—a most agreeableas well as scholarly chapter of history, biogra-phy, and genealogy combined, by Professor Ed-ward E. Salisbury, of New Haven, will be con-tinued through the March and April numbers ofthe Magazine.—Editor.
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^it^/u/en, dey. den. v^eraJcrn. nOuMe\ MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. XI MARCH 1884 No. o OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTSII. THE LAST ELEVEN. IN the paper on the first ten presidents which was printed in the Febru-ary number of this Magazine it was shown that the average length of presidential service has considerably decreased as the years of theRepublic have grown in number. A not less interesting fact is that theage at which men are called to the presidency has also decreased to a sur-prising extent, the decrease beginning with the second division of the list.Taking only the years of their ages, and omitting the months, we find thatthe average age of the first ten presidents, at the time of entering uponthe office, was fifty-eight and eight-tenths years ; while that of the lasteleven has been only fifty-three and nine-elevenths years. Indeed onlytwo of the eleven had reached the average age of the first ten at the timeof their inauguration. These two were Taylor and Buchanan. When we

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