Published within months of the President’s death, this life traces Garfield’s New England ancestry, his frontier Ohio boyhood, his college years at Williams, his Civil War service and his long career in Congress. It ends with his brief administration, the shooting by Charles Guiteau and the long summer of his dying, with extracts from his speeches and letters.
A memorial biography written in the first grief of 1881, revealing how the nation saw its murdered president. Download the free EPUB.