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Subject | • | Garfield family. |
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| | • | Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. | [X] | | • | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. |
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| | • | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) | [X] | | • | Newell family. |
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| | • | Rudolph family. |
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| | • | Ballou family. |
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| | • | Cabinet officers -- United States. |
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| | • | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. |
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| | • | Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. |
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| | • | Hill family. |
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| | • | Newell, John. |
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| | • | Poor family. |
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| | • | Presidents -- United States -- Family. |
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| | • | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. |
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| | • | Rudolph, Joseph. |
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| | • | United States. Dept. of the Interior. |
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| | • | Western Reserve Historical Society |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 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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