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Subject | • | Ballou family. |
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| | • | Feis family. |
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| | • | Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972. |
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| | • | Feis, Ruth Stanley-Brown. |
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| | • | Garfield & Garfield (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Garfield family. |
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| | • | Garfield, Abram, 1872-1958. |
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| | • | Garfield, Eliza Ballou, 1801-1887. |
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| | • | Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. |
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| | • | Garfield, Irvin McDowell. |
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| | • | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination. |
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| | • | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. |
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| | • | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. |
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| | • | Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. |
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| | • | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) |
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| | • | Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Mourning customs -- United States. |
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| | • | Political campaigns -- United States. |
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| | • | Presidents -- United States -- Family. |
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| | • | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
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| | • | Rudolph family. |
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| | • | Rudolph, Joseph. |
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| | • | Stanley-Brown family. |
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| | • | Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. | [X] | | • | Stanley-Brown, Margaret. |
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| | • | Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield, 1867-1947. |
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| | • | Stanley-Brown, R. (Rudolph), 1889-1944. |
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| | • | Women -- United States. |
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| | • | Women authors. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Joseph Stanley-Brown Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stanley-Brown, Joseph | | | | Dates: | 1874-1930 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Stanley-Brown (1858-1941) was the secretary to President James A. Garfield who married the president's daughter, Mollie, in 1888. He also served as stenographer to Major John W. Powell on a geologic survey of the Rocky Mountains, and as a member of the Bering Sea Arbitration Commission. The collection consists of letters to Stanley-Brown, "Reminiscences" by him, letters to the James A. Garfield family, and a Christmas card from Ida Tarbell. | | | | Call #: | MS 3722 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. | Garfield family.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | 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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