Description: James A. Garfield (1831-1881) was president of the United States from March 4, 1881 to September 19, 1881. First Family shown, from the top, are: Eliza Arabella "Trot" Garfield (top center), First lady Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (upper left), the president's mother, Eliza Ballou Garfield (upper right), and sons Harry Augustus Garfield and James R. Garfield (bottom). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08428
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918; Families--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The Garfield Monument, a 180-ft tall cylindrical building, was designed by George Keller. It was built in 1890, two years after the President's death. It sits on a hill over looking Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The exterior is decorated with five bas-relief panels depicting scenes from Garfield's life. The interior is decorated with elaborate mosaic tiles, marble columns and colorful leaded glass windows. In the center of the main level is a larger than life statute of President Garfield. James A Garfield, the 20th President, was born on November 19, 1831 in a log cabin in what is now Moreland Hills, Ohio. He was educated at what is now Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Randolph. They had seven children, five sons and two daughters. Garfield was elected President in 1880 and served only four months. He was assassinated on July 2, 1881 and died September 19, 1881. He served a mere 200 days as president. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_055
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Monuments.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Garfield Monument, a 180-foot tall cylindrical building, was designed by architect George Keller. It was dedicated in 1890, two years after the President's death. It sits on a hillside overlooking Lakeview Cemetery near Cleveland, Ohio. The interior features a larger-than-life statue of Garfield, stained glass, bas relief, and various historical relics of Garfield's life and presidency. James A Garfield was born November 18, 1831 in a log cabin in what is now Moreland, Ohio. He was educated at what is nor Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Randolph. They were the parents of seven children, five boys and 2 girls. Garfield became the President of the United States on March 4, 1881 and on July 2, 1881, he was assassinated. He died on September 19, 1881. He served a mere 200 days as president. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_058
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Monuments.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caricature of James A. Garfield titled "From the Tow-Path to the White House." This piece of political memorabilia features one of Garfield's campaign slogans from the 1880 presidential campaign. Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States, and was born on November 19, 1831, in Orange, Ohio. His father died in 1833, and James spent most of his youth working on a farm to care for his widowed mother. At the age of seventeen, Garfield took a job steering boats on the Ohio and Erie Canal--the origin of the campaign slogan. After winning election to the Ohio Senate as a member of the Republican Party in 1859, Garfield joined the Union army at the outset of the Civil War and attained the rank of major general before resigning in 1863 to serve nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives. He was elected president in 1880, but served only four months before being assassinated. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04239
Subjects: Cartoonists; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Political cartoons; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
Places: Ohio; Washington D.C.
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, wife of United State President James A. Garfield, ca. 1881-1885. She became First Lady of the United States in 1881. Born in Hiram, Ohio, in 1832, she met the future president Garfield while they were students at Geauga Seminary in Chester, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07884
Subjects: Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents' spouses--United States
Places: Hiram (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lithograph portrait of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, wife of United State President James A. Garfield. She became First Lady of the United States in 1881. Born in Hiram, Ohio, in 1832, she met the future president Garfield while they were students at Geauga Seminary in Chester, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07885
Subjects: Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents' spouses--United States
Places: Hiram (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the James Garfield House in Mentor, Ohio. James Abram Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States. Garfield purchased the home in 1876 to accommodate his growing family. The home, named Lawnfield by onlookers, was the site of the first successful front porch campaign in 1880. That same year, Garfield had 11 more rooms added to the building to accommodate his large family. James A. Garfield was President from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881. Four years after his assassination, the Memorial Library wing was added by Mrs. Garfield and her family - setting the precedent for presidential libraries. In 1859, Garfield began a political career, winning election to the Ohio Senate as a member of the Republican Party. During the Civil War, Garfield resigned his position as president of Hiram College and joined the Union Army. He began as lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry and fought in the Battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. He resigned from the army on December 5, 1863, with the rank of major general. Garfield resigned his commission because Ohio voters had elected him to the United States House of Representatives. He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in 1880. In Congress, Garfield was a supporter of the Radical Republicans. He opposed President Andrew Johnson's lenient policy toward the conquered Southern states and demanded the enfranchisement of African-American men. Garfield served for only four months before he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The president lived for two more months, before dying on September 19, 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06509
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; National parks & reserves; Historic houses
Places: Mentor (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of an engraved portrait of President James A. Garfield. In 1881, Garfield became the twentieth president of the United States. He was assassinated after only six months in office. Born on November 19, 1831 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Garfield was the youngest of five children. Garfield's father died when he was two, and his family was left poverty-stricken. As a teenager, Garfield worked on a canal boat. He enrolled in the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (now Hiram College), then went to Williams College to complete his education. After graduating, he returned to Hiram to serve as teacher of ancient languages (1853, 1856-1861), principal (1857-1863), and trustee (1864-1881). Garfield married Lucretia Rudolph (1832-1918) in 1858. Lucretia was the daughter of Zeb Rudolph, a devoted member of the Disciples of Christ and one of the founders of the institute. Garfield served as a lieutenant colonel in the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) during the Civil War, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880. He supported the Radical Republican plan for African American suffrage, as well as the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. In 1880, Garfield was elected to the U.S. Senate. His plans changed, however, when he was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention later that year. The election was close, but Garfield emerged the winner. Less than six months into his administration, Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a Washington attorney who was upset that he did not receive a federal appointment. The president died three months later on September 19, 1881 at Elberon, New Jersey. The James A. Garfield Collection at Hiram College focuses on Garfield's connection to Hiram and includes a broad range of personal and professional material, much of it in Garfield's own hand. The collection also includes a virtually complete set of Garfield's speeches in pamphlet form and works about Garfield written after his death and up to the present. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00575
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The James A. Garfield House in Mentor. Garfield purchased this home in 1876 to accommodate his large family. At this house, he held the first presidential front porch campaign. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06564
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents--United States; Lake County (Ohio)
Places: Mentor Hills (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pro-Garfield illustration depicts presidential candidate James Garfield as a farmer cutting down grass and snakes with a scythe on his way towards the White House. The scythe is labeled "Honesty, Ability and Patriotism," while the evils he is cutting down are symbolized as snakes labeled "Malice," "Defamation," "Hatred," "Venom" and "Fraud." Beneath his feet are two snakes named "Calumny" and "Falsehood." The cartoon is captioned "Farmer Garfield Cutting a Swath to the White House," and was published by Currier and Ives in 1880. Born in Orange, Ohio, Garfield spent time teaching at Hiram College and attained the rank of major general in the Civil War. He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in 1880, but served for only four months before he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau while waiting for a train in Washington, DC. Garfield lived for two more months, before dying on September 19, 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04094
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Assassinations
 

Description: Photograph of the pond and fountain in Cleveland Square (now called Public Square) with the caption, "Decorations during Garfield Obsequies," from the collection of Louis Baus. President James A. Garfield, an Ohio native, was only in office for four months before he was shot by assassin Charles Guiteau on July 1, 1881. Garfield survived another two and a half months, but succumbed to complications from the wound on September 19, 1881. His body was transferred by funeral train to Cleveland, where he is buried in Lake View Cemetery. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A01_049
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cities and towns--Ohio; Sculptures; squares (open spaces); Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents--Death and burial;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Political cartoon from "Puck Magazine" featuring James A. Garfield as a bride marrying Uncle Sam. The caption reads, "Forbidding the Banns. The Bride (Garfield):- `But it was such a little one!'" A man labelled "Democratic N.C." (National Convention) is rushing to the altar with an infant labelled "Credit Mobilier." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_0566
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Political primaries; Presidential elections--United States--1880; Crédit Mobilier scandal; Political cartoons
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);