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Source:
Genealogical & Biographical Record

of Miami Co., Ohio

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
1900

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LYMAN GAGE
 

Source: Genealogical & Biographical Record of Miami Co., Ohio - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company - 1900 - Page

  JAMES A. GARFIELD, the twentieth president of the United States, was born Nov. 19, 1831, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and was the son of Abram and Eliza (Baliou) Garfield.  In 1833 the father, an industrious pioneer farmer, died, and the care of the family devolved upon Thomas, to whom James became deeply indebted for educational and other advantages. As James grew up he was industrious and worked on the farm, at carpentering, at chopping wood, or anything else he found to do, and in the meantime made the most of his books.
     Until he was about sixteen, James' highest ambition was to become a sea captain.  On attaining that age he walked to Cleveland, and, not being able to find work, he engaged as a driver on the Ohio & Pennsylvania canal, but quit this after a short time.  He attended the seminary at Chester for about three years, after which he entered Hiram Institute, a school started by the Disciples of Christ in 1850.  In order to pay his way he assumed the duties of janitor and at times taught school.   After completing his course at the last named educational institution he entered Williams College, from which he graduated in 1856.  He afterward returned to Hiram College as its president.  He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859.  Nov. 11, 1858, Mr. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph were married.
     In 1859 Mr. Garfield made his first political speeches, at Hiram and in the neighborhood.  The same year he was elected to the state senate.
     On the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he became lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-second Ohio Infantry, and, while but a new soldier, was given command of four regiments of infantry and eight companies of cavalry, with which he drove the Confederates under Humphrey Marshall out of Kentucky.  Jan. 11, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general.  He participated with General Buell in the battle of Shiloh and the operations around Corinth, and was then detailed as a member of the Fitz John Porter court-martial.  Reporting to General Rosecrans, he was assigned to the position of chief of staff, and resigned his position, with the rank of major-general, when his immediate superior was superseded.  In the fall of 1862 Mr. Garfield was elected to congress and remained in that body, either in the house or senate, until 1880.
     June 8, 1880, at the national Republican convention, held in Chicago, General Garfield was nominated for the presidency, and was elected.  He was inaugurated Mar. 4, 1881, but, July 2, following, he was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Guiteau for some fancied political slight, and died Sept. 19, 1881.
Source: Genealogical & Biographical Record of Miami Co., Ohio - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company - 1900 - Page 163
 
HENRY GEORGE
 

Source: Genealogical & Biographical Record of Miami Co., Ohio - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company - 1900 - Page

 
JAY GOULD
 

Source: Genealogical & Biographical Record of Miami Co., Ohio - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company - 1900 - Page


FRANCIS GRAY
 

Source: Genealogical & Biographical Record of Miami Co., Ohio - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company - 1900 - Page 308

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