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tember 23 and 23. It was then taken to Cleve- land, Ohio, where it found sepulture in Lake View cemetery and where a grateful nation erected over the spot an imposing mommient built by popular subscription aggregating over §1.55,000. His public utterances have become a part of the standard literature of the world and his historic speech pronounced from the balcony of the New York custom house, when the news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln stirred the nation to its depths, lifted the pall and com- forted a stricken people as they listened to the faith-inspiring words; " God reigns and the gov- ernment at Washington lives." He was a trus- tee of Williams college, 1880-81; a trustee of Bethany and Hiram colleges, Ohio; and a regent of the Smithsonian institution. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Williams in 1873 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1881. His speeches to congress were published, as were his oration on the life of Gen. George H. Thomas and his New York custom house oration on the death of Lincoln. William R. Balch also col- lected brief selections entitled Garfield's Words (1881). See llie Early Life and Public Career of James A. (rarfield by James S. Brisbin (1880); TIte Life of James A. Garfield by Charles Carleton Coffin (1880); Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield by Major J. M. Bundy (1880); Life, Speeches and Public Services of James A Garfield by Russell H. Crowell (1881); Life and Public Services of James A Garfield by Frank H. Mason (1881); A Fall History of Gen. James A. Garfield's Public Life and other Political Information by B. A. Hinsdale, president of Hiram college (2 vols., 1883); and Garfield the Ideal Man by J. O. Converse (1883). He died at Elberon, N.J.. Sept. 19, 1881. GARFIELD, Lucretia (Rudolph), wife of the 20th President of the United States, was born in Hiram, Portage county, Oliio. April 19, 1832; daughter of Zebulon Rudolph. While a pupil at Geauga sem- inary, Chester. Ohio, she first met James A. Garfield who was also a pupil there. They were married, Nov. 11, 1858. and made their home in Hiram, where Mr. Garfield was president of Hi- ram college. After he had served as rep- resentative in con- gress two terms they purchased a modest cottage facing on the green. They made their winter home in Washington, B.C.. in apartments until 1868, when they built

a hoase on Thirteenth and I streets. In 1877 they purchased a farm of 160 acres at Men- tor, Lake countj', Ohio, which they gradually improved and beautified. The place was named " Lawufield " and here the mother of the Presi-

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dent made her home aftcrr the death of her son, and died there, Jan. 21, 1888, in the eighty -eighth year of her age. Here also Mrs. Garfield's father died on Oct. 20, 1897, m the ninety-fifth year of his age. Congress provided for the widow of the martyred President by voting her the Presi- dent's salary for one year, §50,000, and by granting her a pension of SoOOO per annum dur- ing her lifetime. The citizens of the United States through a popular subscription contributed the sum of S363.000, the income to be paid to the widow during her lifetime and the sum at lier death to be divided among the children. Seven children were born to James A. and Lucretia Garfield. The eldest. JIary, died while her father was in the army, and the youngest. Ed- ward, died in Washingtf>n in 1876. Harry Au- gustus and James Rudolph were graduated at Williams in 1885 and settled to the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio. James R. was an Ohio state senator, 1895-96; was married to a daughter of John Newall of Cleveland, resided with his mother at Mentor, and in 1898 was named as an available candidate for representative in congress from his father's old district. On June 14, 1888, Harry A. was married to Belle, daughter of James Mason of Cleveland, and on the same date, Mollie, the only daughter, was married to J. Stanley Brown, who was her father's private secretary during his time of service as Presi- dent of the United States. The two younger sons, Irvin McDowell and Abram, were gradu- ated at Williams college, and Irvin McDowell was admitted to the bar and became a lawyer in Boston. Mass.

GARLAND, Augustus Hill, statesman, was born in Tipton county. Tenn.. June 11. 1832; son of Rufus K. and Barbara (Hill) Garland. He was taken by his jmrents to Hempstead county,