http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f14-subject%3DGarfield,%20James%20A.%20(James%20Abram),%201831-1881. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f14-subject=Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3160.xml Henry B. Boynton (b. 1829) was a farmer, of Orange, Ohio. The collection consists of letters to Boynton from his cousin, President James A. Garfield, clippings relating to Garfield's death, and journal (1854-1856) kept by Boynton and his brother, William A. Boynton, student at Hiram Eclectic Institute and bookseller. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3160.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3049.xml James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) was born in Orange Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, United States Congressman and Senator, and was the twentieth President of the United States who was assassinated in 1881. The collection consists of correspondence, diary (1873), and newspaper clippings, relating to Garfield's career and assassination, Garfield Monument in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, and the establishment of Lawnfield, his home in Mentor, Ohio, as a memorial museum. Includes correspondence (1874-1900) of his wife, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. Correspondents include N.L. Chaffee, Burke A. Hinsdale, Frederick Kinsman, and Charles Whittlesey. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3049.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1827.xml Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902) was an author, lawyer, State representative, United States Representative from Ohio (1861-1863), and U.S. Consul to Cuba. the collection consists of correspondence, a manuscript of autobiographical writings, romances, historical novels, accounts of life in Cuba, personal papers and certificates, files of law cases, newspaper clippings, souvenirs of official occasions in Washington, D.C., and other miscellaneous papers. Consists chiefly of letters from well-known politicians, lawyers, and prominent Ohioans, referring to matters of legal and political importance and to Riddle's books. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1827.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3263.xml David G. Swaim (d. 1897) was a captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as assistant adjutant general and chief of the secret service during the Chickamauga Campaign under Brigadier General James A. Garfield. He reentered the army in 1867 as a second lieutenant, serving as acting judge advocate for the fourth military district in Vicksburg, Miss. From 1868-1869, he supervised the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. As a Major, he presided as judge advocate at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was appointed Judge Advocate General of the United States Army in 1880, holding this position until 1895. Swaim maintained a close personal friendship with Garfield and was at his side in 1881 at the President's death. The collection consists of two bound letterbooks, the first 1861-1874, and the second 1865-1870. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3263.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4574.xml Lawnfield Farm, in Mentor, Ohio, was purchased by James A. Garfield in 1876, and was his family's home, as well as his headquarters for the 1880 presidential campaign. His widow, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, lived there until her death in 1918. Her brother, Joseph Rudolph, and his wife Elizabeth joined her there, and he managed the farm. The house was modified in 1885, and the library furnished as a memorial to the late president and as a repository for his papers. It was a working farm until 1939, when the heirs donated the farm, homestead, buildings, and remaining property to the Western Reserve Historical Society. The property, now known as the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, is owned by the National Park Service. The collection consists of farm accounts, cash books, journals, receipts, planting inventory, and check stubs, 1880-1911 for Lawnfield Farm, as well as check stubs and bank statements for the Hollycroft Transportation Company, 1929-1931. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4574.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1772.xml Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1837-1900) was an educator who served as President of Hiram College, Superintendent of the Cleveland Public Schools, and professor at the University of Michigan. The collection consists of correspondence, student essays, notes, receipts, articles, clippings, biographical material, and other papers concerning Hinsdale's student days, his positions at Hiram College, the Cleveland Public Schools, and the University of Michigan, his association with James A. Garfield, and his writing of The Works of James Abram Garfield (1882-83), containing information on Garfield's early life and the Republican convention of 1880. Includes letters of condolence to Mrs. Hinsdale on her husband's death. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1772.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4575.xml James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and membe... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4575.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4579.xml James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and membe... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4579.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4580.xml James A. Garfield II was the son of James Rudolph and Helen Newell Garfield, and grandson of United States President James A. Garfield. He was raised with his brothers at Hollycroft, the family home in Mentor, Ohio, next to Lawnfield, residence of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, the president's widow. He graduated from Williams College in 1916 and served in World War I. He married Edwina Forbes Glenn in 1917. They lived in Cleveland and Mentor, Ohio, while James pursued various business ventures. Edwina moved to Florida with her daughters, Helen Louise and Elizabeth, after the couple divorced in the 1930s. The collection consists of correspondence, an autograph book, scrapbooks, speech reading lessons, drawings, newspaper clippings, and notebooks of President James A. Garfield, James Rudolph and Helen Newell Garfield, and James A. and Edwina Glenn Garfield. The papers relating to President Garfield include a scrapbook compiled in 1874 containing documents which refute charges regarding improprieties in military c... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4580.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4790.xml James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and membe... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4790.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4571.xml Mary (Mollie) Garfield Stanley-Brown was the daughter of President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. She married Joseph Stanley-Brown in 1888 and had three children; Rudolph, Ruth, and Margaret. Joseph Stanley-Brown had served as Garfield's private secretary in Washington, and organized the papers and books in the memorial library dedicated to the late president at the family home, Lawnfield, Mentor, Ohio. Stanley-Brown worked for the United States Geologic Survey, the National Geographic Society, in the railroad industry, and as a banker. The Stanley-Brown family lived first in Washington, and then in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. Rudolph Stanley-Brown was a partner in Abram Garfield's architectural firm in Cleveland, Ohio, and married Katherine Oliver in 1922. Margaret Stanley-Brown was a surgeon. Ruth Stanley-Brown attended Vassar College, worked in publishing for several years in New York, and married Herbert Feis in 1922. In 1962, Ruth published a children's book, Mollie Garfi... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4571.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT