William Henry Harrison: Certificate of the Death of President Harrison

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Certificate of the Death of President Harrison
April 4, 1841

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WASHINGTON, April 4, A. D. 1841 .

William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, departed this life at the President's house, in this city, this morning, being Sunday, the 4th day of April, A. D. 1841, at thirty minutes before 1 o'clock in the morning; we whose names are hereunto subscribed being in the house, and some of us in his immediate presence, at the time of his decease.

W. W. SEATON,

Mayor of Washington .

THOMAS MILLER, M.D.,

Attending Physician .

ASHTON ALEXANDER, M.D.,

Consulting Physician.

WM. HAWLEY,

Rector of St. John's Church.

A. HUNTER,

Marshal of the District of Columbia.

WM. THOS. CARROLL,

Clerk of Supreme Court U. S.

FLETCHER WEBSTER,

Chief Clerk in the State Dept.

DANL. WEBSTER,

Secretary of State .

THOMAS EWING,

Secretary of the Treasury.

JNO. BELL,

Secretary of War.

J. J. CRITTENDEN,

Attorney-General.

FR. GRANGER,

Postmaster-General.

JOHN CHAMBERS,

C. S. TODD,

DAVID O. COUPLAND,

Of the President's Family.

Let this be duly recorded and placed among the rolls.

DANL. WEBSTER,

Secretary of State .

Recorded in Domestic Letter Book by--

A.T. MCCORMICK.

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67341.

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