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 HEHRINGSHAWS LIBRAKT OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. book form with the title Autumn Leaves. Died July 14, 1864, in White Mountain, N.J. Gardner, Thomas, soldier, was born in 1724 in Cambridge, Mass. In 1775 he raised a regiment according to the instructions of the provincial congress; and was commissioned its colonel. He died June 18, 1775, in Boston, Mass. soldier, lawyer, Gardner, Washington, congressman, was born in Morrow county, Ohio. He served in the ranks of tbe sixtyfifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in 1861-65. He served twelve years in the ministry of the methodist episcopal church. In 1888 he was commander of the department of Michigan, grand army of the republic; and was made professor in and public lecturer for Albion college in 1899. For sevIn eral years he was secretary of state. 1899-1903 he was a, representative to the fifty- sixth and fifty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Gardner, William Henry, physician, surgeon, author, was born April 7, 1837, in In 1861 he entered the Payetteville, N.C. United States army; became surgeon in 1882; was made lieutenant -colonel and deputy surgeon-general in 1896; and was retired in 1898. He is the author of The Curious Case of General Delaney Smythe.

Gardner, William Henry, litterateur, author, was born in 1865 in Massachusetts. He is the author of- Work and Play Songs.

Montgomery, soldier, He was a vetthe Mexican and civil wars; and in

Gardner,

was born

William

in 1833 in Georgia.

eran of 1865 was brigadier-general of the confederate states army. He died June 16, 1901, in Memphis, Tenn. Garesche, Julius Peter, soldier, was born In 1841-46 he served on in 1821 in Cuba. frontier and garrison duty; and afterward with distinction in the Mexican war. He had declined the commission of brigadiergeneral of volunteers; and remained a lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. He died Dec. 31, 1862, near Stone River, Tenn. Garfield, dent of the

James Abram, twentieth

presi-

United States, congressman, was

born Nov. 19, 1831, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He learned the carpenter's trade a t the age of fourteen; attended Geauga seminary,

Hiram

college,

and graduated at Williams college, Massachusetts, in 185'6, and earned

money

the necessary at his trade

and He

teaching school. then became proin

Hiram

col-

and

in 1857

was

fessor lege,

made tia

its president.

Rudolph

in 1858.

He married Miss In 1859 he

was

Luereelect-

ed state senator. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He enlisted Aug. 16, 1861; and Sept. 5 was commissioned colonel of the forty-second Ohio infantry. On Jan. 10, 1863, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and afterward to that of major-general. In 1863-81 he was a representative in the thirty-eighth to the forty-sixth congresses. In January, 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him United States senator for six years from March The republican national conven4, 1881. tion met at Chicago June 3, 1880. General Garfield headed the Ohio delegation, and presented the name of John Sherman as a The first ballot candidate for president.

was taken June 7, and stood: U. S. Grant, 304; James G. Blaine, 384; John Sherman, 93; George F. Edmunds, 34; Elihu B. Washburne, 30, and William Windom, 10 votes.

On the third ballot Garfield received one vote, and from one to two on each succeeding ballot up to the thirty-third, except five The ballotballots, when he received none. ing continued until June 8. On the thirtyThe fourth ballot Garfield got 17 votes. Grant, 213; Blaine, 357; thirty-fifth stood: Sherman, 99; Edmunds, 11; Washburne, 23; Windom, 3, and Garfield, 50. The thirtysixth and last vote gave Garfield, 399; Grant, 307; Blaine, 43; Washburne, 5, and Sherman, 3. After an adjournment, Chester A. Arthur, who was also a delegate to the convention, was nominated for vicepresident. They were elected Nov. 4. Garfield was then representative in congress, United States senator-elect and presidentelect. Nov. 8 he resigned his seat in congress, declined the office of senator, and remained at his home at Mentor, Ohio, until his inauguration, March 4, 1881. On July 2 he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau in a railroad depot in Washington. He was removed to Long Branch, N.J., Sept. 6, where he died from the effects of the wound Sept. He held political offices about 19, 1881. twenty-one years, and died poor. Garfield, Mrs. Lucretia Rudolph, was bom April 19, 1833, in Hiram, Ohio. She first met her husband, President James A. Garfield,

when both were

students at Hiram, Ohio; and was married Nov. 11, 1858, in Hudson, Ohio, soon after his accession to the presidency of the college. After President Garfield was as-

sassinated a popular subscription for his children and w-idow realized three hundred

thousand dollars, the income to go to Mrs. Garfield during her life, after which the principal is to be divided among her four sons and one daughter.