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[b] Garfield's ancestor Edward Garfield migrated from Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England, to Massachusetts around 1630. James's father Abram was born in Worcester, New York, and came to Ohio to woo his childhood sweetheart, Mehitabel Ballou, only to find her married. He instead wed her sister Eliza, who was born in New Hampshire.
Abram Garfield was born in Washington D.C. [2] In 1876 the family moved to what is now the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio.Garfield received a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1893 and a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts three years later.
Garfield was born in Hiram, Ohio, on October 17 1865, the third of seven children born to James Abram and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. In 1876 the family moved to what is now the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio. For a year prior to his father's presidency, he studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
Charles Julius Guiteau (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ t oʊ / ghih-TOH; September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American man who assassinated James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, in 1881. Guiteau believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship.
The cat's name is a tribute to Davis’s beloved grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis—"a large gruff man with very kind eyes, so the personality fits Garfield," the cartoonist told The Today ...
James A. Garfield. On July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., resulting in his death in Elberon, New Jersey, two and a half months later on September 19, 1881.
Writing a book about James Garfield is no easy task. The 20th president who served the second shortest amount of time in the White House is popularly known more for his assassination than what he ...
The president was moved to the Petersen House after the shooting, where Robert attended his father's deathbed. [68] Lincoln was an eyewitness when Charles J. Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Lincoln was serving as Garfield's Secretary of War at the time.