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1	Title:	Wade Family Papers
	Creator:	Wade Family
	Dates:	1862-1891
	Abstract:	Benjamin F. Wade, an Ashtabula County, Ohio, lawyer and zealous abolitionist, was one of the foremost Radical Republican United States Senators of the American Civil War. Wade demanded that Lincoln make the war a crusade to free the slaves, and he led the charge to keep control of Reconstruction in the hands of Congress. His family, descended from Jonathan Wade, a 1632 immigrant to Massachusetts, was one of the most prominent families of Ashtabula County during the 19th century. The first of the family to settle in Ashtabula County was James Wade, father of Benjamin, who arrived there in the 1820s. The collection consists of correspondence, wedding invitations, genealogy notes, newspaper clippings, and a freight receipt. The collection pertains to the views of Radical Republicans during the early stages of the Civil War. Caroline Wade's letter strongly expresses her (and probably her husband's) negative views of President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan. The genealogical material is also useful for information on the Wade family of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the families of Dudley, Newhall, Hills, Upham, Wigglesworth, and Leonard.
	Call #:	MS 4181
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wade family -- Periodicals. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. \| McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885. \| Dudley family. \| Newell family. \| Hill family. \| Upham family. \| Wigglesworth family. \| Leonard family. \| Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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2	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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