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James Garfield

James Abram Garfield was born to Abram and El

iza Ballou Garfield on November 19, 1831 in Orange Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In 1833 his father died, and he was left in poverty, and had minute education. He was a tall man with a heavy beard. In 1848, he left home to search for work. He soon found a job working on a canal boat, but had to return home six weeks later due to illness.

After Garfield became well again, he taught in school district schools until he finally got into the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, presently Hiram College. There he studied and also taught. From there he attended Williams Collage. In 1856 he graduated with honors, and, two years later, became the principle and taught there.

Garfield also talked and lectured at funerals and wedding services. He was a very religious man. He was very much against slavery, which was one of the reasons that he turned to politics.

In1859 he was elected to serve on the Ohio senate until 1861. There he denounced slavery and would apply force if needed to maintain the union. He was then admitted to the bar.

On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph, a former classmate. He then studied law, but soon after joined the Army of Cumberland. He helped draft t


In 1865, James R. Garfield was born (died in 1950). In 1867, Mary Garfield was born (died in 1947). In 1870, Irvin R. Garfield was born (died in 1951). Abram Garfield was born in 1872 (died in 1958). The last Chile, Edward Garfield, was born in 1874 (died in 1876).

Dr. Willard Bliss, who stuck his un-sanitary finger in Garfield’s body, examined him. They, which is the crew of doctors, also inserted several non-sterile instruments inside his body. They dug a false passage where they thought the bullet was. The Navy Surgeon stuck his finger inside the wound, and confirmed that the bullet had hit the liver. That was actually the Surgeon’s finger that had hit the liver. Garfield’s fever rose, and he was put on a strict milk with brandy diet. They still continued to search for the bullet. Alexander then came in with a metal detector to try to detect the bullet. They picked up the signal of the metal spring in the mattress, which they thought was the bullet. They dug a deep wound, but found no bullet. Garfield got blood poisoning from the bullet, which caused his heart to weaken. He then had a heart attack, which the doctors called a rupturing blood vessel in his stomach. Garfield died minuets later on September 19th 1881 in Elberon New Jersey. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland Ohio.

In 1880, he was elected to the Ohio senate to succeed John Sherman, and later became his campaign manager in the race for Republican presidential nomine

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