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1	Title:	David G. Swaim Letters
	Creator:	Swaim, David G.
	Dates:	1861-1874
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3263
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Swaim, David G., d. 1897. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Dept. \| United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. \| Credit Mobilier of America. \| Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States. \| Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877). \| Salish Indians. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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2	Title:	James A. Garfield Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, James A.
	Dates:	1857-1936
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3049
	Extent:	4.10 linear feet (10 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination. \| Presidents -- United States. \| Presidents -- United States -- Assassination.
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3	Title:	Burke Aaron Hinsdale Papers
	Creator:	Hinsdale, Burke Aaron
	Dates:	1854-1901
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 1772
	Extent:	2.30 linear feet (6 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900. Works of James Abram Garfield, 1882-1883. \| Hiram College. \| University of Michigan. \| Cleveland Public Schools. \| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) \| College presidents -- Ohio. \| College teachers -- Michigan. \| Political conventions -- United States. \| School superintendants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
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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 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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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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