Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . hing-ton for a tour in New England, he was shot by a cowardly assassin onJuly 2, 1881. His physical vigor and skillful medical attendance sus-tained liim in great suffering,which he bore with mighty fortitude, foreighty days. He had been taken tenderly to the seashore at LongBranch, N. J., and there he died on September 19, 1881. During his long suffering. President Garfields condition excited thedeep sympathy of the civilized world. At his death,
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . hing-ton for a tour in New England, he was shot by a cowardly assassin onJuly 2, 1881. His physical vigor and skillful medical attendance sus-tained liim in great suffering,which he bore with mighty fortitude, foreighty days. He had been taken tenderly to the seashore at LongBranch, N. J., and there he died on September 19, 1881. During his long suffering. President Garfields condition excited thedeep sympathy of the civilized world. At his death, the monarchs of Eng-land, Belgium, and Spain, ordered their respective courts to wearmourning for a week; and the day of his funeral was solemnly observed,with tokens of grief, in every city, village, and hamlet, in our Republic. In his early manhood Garfield married Lucretia Rudolph, a charmingand fitting companion in his journey of life; and the people of the UnitedStates testified their love and reverence for him and respect for hiswidow, by creating a fund of more than $300,000 for her sole use andbenefit. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 491. HENEY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. LIKE Emerson, Longfellow possessed a gentle, loving nature. Hewas conscientious in all his relations to his kind. His heart wastender, his industry was untiring, and all through life he was faitlifulin the use of the talents God had given him. His childhood was spentin a delightful home, and all the surroundings of his youth were pro-pitious, liis father was Stephen Longfellow,an eminent lawyer of Port-land, Maine, and their dwelling-place was in a spacious mansion; butat the time of the poets birth, iiis parents were sojourning at the houseof Captain Samuel Stephenson, overlooking the harbor, and now stand-ing at the corner of Fore and Hancock Streets. Mr. Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807. He was preparedfor college at the Portland Academy, and when between fourteen andfifteen years of age, he and his e
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