. The great American book of biography . JAMES A. GARFIELD, CITIZEN, STAXESrvlAN, PRESIDENT, URING the long, sultry days of the summer of 1881, atalmost every newspaper and telegraph office stood a groupof people, which sometimes swelled into a great crowd,watching eagerly for the slips of paper which from time totime were posted in a conspicuous place on the front ofthe building. In the intervals they would gather in littleknots and talk together in low tones. To one who didnot know what had happened on July 2d, it would havebeen hard to guess what gathered these waiting crowds, dayafter day,
. The great American book of biography . JAMES A. GARFIELD, CITIZEN, STAXESrvlAN, PRESIDENT, URING the long, sultry days of the summer of 1881, atalmost every newspaper and telegraph office stood a groupof people, which sometimes swelled into a great crowd,watching eagerly for the slips of paper which from time totime were posted in a conspicuous place on the front ofthe building. In the intervals they would gather in littleknots and talk together in low tones. To one who didnot know what had happened on July 2d, it would havebeen hard to guess what gathered these waiting crowds, dayafter day, throughout the land. With intense, forebodingsuspense fifty millions of people were watching for the news fromthe bedside of the President of the United States, who had beenstricken down by the bullet of an assassin. Who that lived through that longsummer can forget those anxious days and nights ? And when at last the bravestruCTCTle for life was ended, and the silent form was borne from the seaside torest on the shores of Lake Erie, w
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