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1	Title:	Helen Newell Garfield Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, Helen Newell
	Dates:	1882-1930
	Abstract:	Helen Newell Garfield was the daughter of John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and Julia Poore Hills. She married James Rudolph Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, in 1890, and had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph H., and Newell. Helen was an advocate for the education and treatment of deaf children. She herself had become deaf around 1918. She ran the Lake Erie School of Speech Reading, and was an officer of the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing and the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. Helen Newell Garfield died in 1930. The collection consists of speeches, notebooks, reprints, programs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. One of the scrapbooks was compiled by Helen Newell Garfield on her father, John Newell, detailing his career as president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad and containing many family photographs. The other scrapbook provides a picture of the social life of Helen Newell Garfield as an upper class Chicago, Illinois school girl and debutante. Also included is material detailing her work with the American Federation of Organizations for Hard of Hearing, and her personal notebook on speech lessons.
	Call #:	MS 4572
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Newell, John. \| Garfield family. \| Newell family. \| American Hearing Society. \| Lake Erie School of Speech Reading. \| Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing. \| Hearing impaired -- United States. \| Hearing impaired -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hearing impaired children -- United States. \| Hearing impaired children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Deaf -- Means of communication. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	James Rudolph Garfield Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, James Rudolph
	Dates:	1879-1909
	Abstract:	James Rudolph Garfield was the son of United States President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. He graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother, Harry Augustus Garfield. James married Helen Newell in 1890. They had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph, and Newell. He served in the Ohio Senate 1896-1900, and was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1902, and to the Department of Commerce and Labor, as the first commissioner of Corporations, 1903-1907. He then served as Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior from 1907-1909. He backed Roosevelt's New Progressive Party in 1912, and was defeated as the reform candidate for Ohio governor in 1914. He resumed his Cleveland law practice, became prominent in local Republican politics, and was a member of several civic organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing, and the Cleveland Foundation. The collection consists of three scrapbooks of photographs, mementos, invitations, programs, reprints, family history, correspondence, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, and cards from his college years, early married life, and life in Washington. The scrapbooks also cover the career of Garfield's father-in-law, John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and contain reprints, memorials, and photographs of Poore, Hills, Garfield, Rudolph, and Ballou family members, and of Lawnfield, the Garfield family home in Mentor, Ohio. The scrapbooks provide a picture of Garfield's college life and early career, and of Washington social life during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as cartoon and newspaper commentary of Garfield's activities.
	Call #:	MS 4573
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Newell, John. \| Garfield family. \| Newell family. \| Poor family. \| Hill family. \| Rudolph family. \| Ballou family. \| Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| United States. Dept. of the Interior. \| Cabinet officers -- United States.
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3	Title:	James A. Garfield Family Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, James A. Family
	Dates:	1849-1938
	Abstract:	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 member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, deeds, herbariums, receipts, architectural plans, and probate documents. The correspondence represents Garfield's Civil War and political careers, and commentary by Garfield and other family members on politics, the Republican Party, Garfield's assassination, as well as family relationships and management of Lawnfield as a family property. Lucretia R. Garfield's letters and papers cover travel and include details of farm life, remodeling, and management at Lawnfield. Joseph Rudolph, brother of Lucretia, managed the farm at Lawnfield, and also administered the estate of James A. Garfield. Some estate documents are included. Rev. Mark Hopkins, president of Williams College, received almost daily telegrams on the President's medical condition during the weeks after the assassination, which are included in the collection. The diaries of the president's mother, Eliza Ballou Garfield, are also included, and cover such topics as travels, household details, life in the White House, births, deaths, and illness, as well as the war and Garfield's political career. Correspondence and other documents written by Garfield's sons; James Rudolph, Harry Augustus and Irvin Garfield, and by his daughter and son-in-law, Joseph and Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown, are included. Other correspondents include Salmon P. Chase, Sara Williams Garfield, L.W. Whitney, John Newell, Rutherford B. Hayes, W. S. Rosecrans, Carl Schurz, and A. H. Smith.
	Call #:	MS 4575
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers and 2 rolls of microfilm)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination. \| Garfield family. \| Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. \| Garfield, Eliza Ballou, 1801-1887. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. \| Garfield, Irvin McDowell. \| Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. \| Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield, 1867-1947. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| Presidents -- United States -- Family.
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4	Title:	James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Garfield, James A. Family
	Dates:	1871-1937
	Abstract:	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 member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, a quit claim deed, memoirs, certificates of appointments, stock certificates, and genealogical charts. The collection is of interest to students of the Garfield, Rudolph, and Newell families. Certificates of appointment of James Rudolph Garfield signed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover are included. Helen Newell Garfield, daughter of John and Julia Poore Hills Newell and wife of James Rudolph Garfield, compiled her family's genealogy. Her mother's recollections of the Chicago Fire of 1871 are also included. An unsigned copy of a 1937 quit claim deed transferring Lawnfield to the Western Reserve Historical Society is included. Of interest is a tally sheet made at the telephone of "Uncle Joe" Davidson's general store, Burlington, Ohio, during the 1880 Republican National Convention. Other correspondents include Phillip Holland and W.H. Clapp. A letter of recommendation for Joseph Rudolph, brother-in-law of President Garfield, for service in the Spanish-American War is included, as is a letter signed in 1880 by President Garfield regarding a life insurance policy.
	Call #:	MS 4579
	Extent:	0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. \| Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Garfield family. \| Newell family. \| Rudolph family. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Rudolph, Joseph. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| Western Reserve Historical Society \| Presidents -- United States -- Family.
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5	Title:	James A. Garfield II Family Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, James A. II
	Dates:	1869-1965
	Abstract:	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 contract awards, a political tract annotated by President Garfield, and a collection of Garfield "Maxims," as well as commemorative publications and a scrapbook of condolences sent to the family after his death. The collection also contains correspondence and other documents related to James Rudolph and Helen Newell Garfield, including teaching materials for speech reading used by Helen Newell Garfield, and letters of Edwina Glenn Garfield to her husband James A. Garfield II discussing concerns of a young, upper class wife of the 1920s.
	Call #:	MS 4580
	Extent:	1.80 linear feet (6 containers)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), II, 1894- \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, Edwina Glenn, 1895- \| Garfield family. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center. \| Presidents -- United States -- Family. \| Hearing impaired -- United States. \| Hearing impaired -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Deaf -- Means of communication. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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6	Title:	James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III
	Creator:	Garfield, James A. Family
	Dates:	1859-1990
	Abstract:	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 member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, election tallies, essays, book inscriptions, legal papers, corporate records, scholarly and political notes, a minute book, scrapbooks, receipts, invitations, sympathy cards, calling cards, newspaper clippings, notebooks, pamphlets, phrenology charts, a eulogy, a presentation album, a resolution, a lock of hair, broadsides, programs, poems, sheet music, drawings, lithographs, and paintings.
	Call #:	MS 4790
	Extent:	3.10 linear feet (3 containers and 10 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. \| Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. \| Garfield family. \| Rudolph family. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| Garfield & Garfield (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Presidents -- United States -- Family. \| Political campaigns -- United States. \| Mourning customs -- United States.
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7	Title:	Mary (Mollie) Garfield Stanley-Brown Papers
	Creator:	Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield
	Dates:	1881-1967
	Abstract:	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 Garfield in the White House, based on her mother's diaries. The collection consists of correspondence between Mary Stanley-Brown and her daughter, Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis and other Garfield, Stanley-Brown, and Feis family correspondence, including that between Helen Newell and James Rudolph Garfield during their courtship and first year of marriage. Other family correspondents include Joseph Stanley-Brown, Rudolph Stanley-Brown, Margaret Stanley-Brown, and Abram Garfield. The collection also includes manuscripts, verses, plays, stories, memoirs, diaries, lectures, scrapbooks, illustrations, and notebooks of Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown and other family members; genealogical data for the Ballou, Rudolph, Garfield, and Stanley-Brown families; and notes, drafts, and correspondence relating to Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis' children's book, Mollie Garfield in the White House, published in 1962. Also of interest are the travel observations and lectures of Joseph Stanley-Brown, who was widely traveled in the American West, having accompanied John Wesley Powell and the U.S. Geological Survey on several trips. Several family members produced stories, verses, plays, illustrations, and memoirs, which are included. Abram and Rae (Sara) Garfield's illustrated manuscript "Two Portage County Legends" and Joseph Rudolph's memoir of his Civil War service are included.
	Call #:	MS 4571
	Extent:	6.80 linear feet (17 containers)
	Subjects:	Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield, 1867-1947. \| Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield family. \| Stanley-Brown family. \| Ballou family. \| Rudolph family. \| Feis family. \| Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. \| Garfield, Eliza Ballou, 1801-1887. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. \| Garfield, Irvin McDowell. \| Rudolph, Joseph. \| Feis, Ruth Stanley-Brown. \| Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972. \| Stanley-Brown, Margaret. \| Stanley-Brown, R. (Rudolph), 1889-1944. \| Garfield, Abram, 1872-1958. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| Presidents -- United States -- Family. \| Women -- United States. \| Women authors.
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