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abram garfield was born december 28, 1799. he worked as a farmer and canal constructor he died on may 8, 1833 shortly after his james was born
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eliza ballou garfield was born on september 21, 1801 in richmond, NH. she died at the age of 86 on jan 21, 1888
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james garfield was the youngest of 5 siblings, 2 sisters mehitabel and mary garfield and 2 brothers thomas and james garfield
his brother james ballou garfield died 2 years before james abram garfield was born. his oldest sibling mehitabel was 10 years older then him -
chester alan aurthor garfields vice president was born
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orange, ohio
mother- eliza garfield
father- abram garfield -
Year died: march 14, 1918
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in chester ohio
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he graduated form williams college in williamstown mass. he went to learn teaching
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he taught latin, greek, higher mathmatics, history, philosophy, english literature, and english rhetoric
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hiram, ohio, he was married for almost 23 years before dying and widowing his wife, lucretia garfield
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he had his first child eliza arabella garfield who was born on july 3 1860 but sadly died 3 years later on december 3 1863
his wife and him later went on to have 6 more hids 5 boys and 1 girl -
first child was born, died: dec. 3, 1863
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he was commissioned lieutenant colonel
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2nd child born died: dec. 12, 1942
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he resigned from the army to take a seat in the house of representatives
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3rd child born died: mar. 24, 1950
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4th child born died: dec. 40, 1947
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5th child born died july 18, 1951
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6th child born died: oct. 16, 1958
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last child born died: oct. 25, 1876
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james only had 10,000 more votes the his opponent, winfield scott hancock
he recieved 57.99% of the electoral votes (214 out of 369) -
alexander grahm bell invented the metal detector to try and find the bullet the was in james garfields abdomen but was unsucessful and james garfield died
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he ran against winfield scott hancock and won by about only 10,000 votes he had 58% of the electoral votes
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Clara burton founded the American red cross to help people in the armed forces and their families and to help with disaster relief in the united states
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shot while at a train station. he was shot 2 time once in the leg and once in the abdomen
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he wrote his last letter to his mother explaining the condition he was in and telling her he will be better soon and asking her to give his love to all of his relative especially sisters Hetty and Mary.
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shot by charles julius guiteau at potomac railway depot, washington dc on july 2, 1881
he died 80 days later of an infection that spread to his blood -
chester alan arthur james garfields vice president becomes president after he dies
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lucretia Rudolph Garfield died at the age of 85
