. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. GARFIELDS ADMINISTRATION, 1881-1885. JAMES A. GARFIELD, twentieth President of the United States,was born at Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, November 19th, the death of his father he was left in infancy to the sole careof his mother and to the rude surroundings of a backwoods home. Blest with greatnative energyand an abundanceof physical vigor,the boy gatheredfrom country toila sound constitu-tion, and fromcountry schoolsthe rudimentsof boyhood hisservices were infrequent dema
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. GARFIELDS ADMINISTRATION, 1881-1885. JAMES A. GARFIELD, twentieth President of the United States,was born at Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, November 19th, the death of his father he was left in infancy to the sole careof his mother and to the rude surroundings of a backwoods home. Blest with greatnative energyand an abundanceof physical vigor,the boy gatheredfrom country toila sound constitu-tion, and fromcountry schoolsthe rudimentsof boyhood hisservices were infrequent demandby the farmersof the neighbor-hood — for he de-veloped unusualskill as a me-chanic. After-wards he servedas a driver andpilot of a canalboat plying the Ohio and Pennsylvania canal. At the age of seventeen he attendedthe High School in Chester, where he applied himself with great dili-gence, extending his studies to algebra, Latin, and Greek. In the fallof 1851, he entered Hiram College, in Portage county, Ohio, where heremained as student and instructor until 1854. In that year he entered. JAMES A. GARFIELD. 648 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Williams College, from which, in August of 1856, he was graduatedwith honor. He then returned to Ohio, and was made first a professorand afterwards president of Hiram College. This position he helduntil the outbreak of the civil war when he left his post to enter thearmy. Meanwhile he had studied law, imbibed a love for politics, andbeen elected to the Ohio State Senate. As a soldier Garfield was first made lieutenant-colonel and after-wards colonel of the Forty-second regiment of Ohio volunteers. Ad-vancing with his men to the front he was soon promoted to a brigadiergeneralship, and did good service in Kentucky and Tennessee. Hewas made chief of staff to General Rosecrans, and bore a distinguishedpart in the battle of Chickamauga. Soon afterwards, while still in thefield, he was, in 1862, elected by the people of his district to the l
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