The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . MRS. LUCRETIA GARFIELD. Bom near Ilirani, Ohio, 18;^7. Married .Tames A. Oar-field, then a professor in llie colletie where she wasBtudying, lS5fi. She was well suited hy nature and edu-cation to be the helpmate of her husband. Through hiscourse in the Civil War and in tongress, she was oon-Btantly assisting and euenuraging him It was to herpick couch, thaf her husband intended to hasten on thatfatal morning of July •..*. IKSI, and she was his tenderBurec duriug the eighty days of siiflering. MRS


The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . MRS. LUCRETIA GARFIELD. Bom near Ilirani, Ohio, 18;^7. Married .Tames A. Oar-field, then a professor in llie colletie where she wasBtudying, lS5fi. She was well suited hy nature and edu-cation to be the helpmate of her husband. Through hiscourse in the Civil War and in tongress, she was oon-Btantly assisting and euenuraging him It was to herpick couch, thaf her husband intended to hasten on thatfatal morning of July •..*. IKSI, and she was his tenderBurec duriug the eighty days of siiflering. MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Jiorii in Lexington. Kv., in 1S,>1. Married to AbrahamLincoln, Nov. i. iwa. Accompanied the President tothe White House, March 4, IKtil. Was with him whenshot by Wilkes Booth, in Fords Theatre, April 14, gave her a pension of $3,(XXI per year, subse-i|ueritly increasing it to $.j,i)O0, and made a special giltof $15,000. Died, July 10, IWS.


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