Garfield, James Abram. Born in Orange Township, Cuyahoga County, OH, 1831. Twentieth president of the United States. Garfield was elected president in 1880, and was inaugurated in March following; but on July 2nd he was shot by an assassin (Guiteau) while at the Washington station of the Baltimore & Potomac Railway, and died at Elberon, NJ, September 19, 1881, after lingering for nearly three months. His early poverty, his independence, his hard-won attainments, and his incorruptible integrity had all caused his career to be watched as that of a man of exceptional powers and of brilliant promise.

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