. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . ; but he fi-nally declared, I shall never come to Washing-ton until I can come by waj of Richmond. Hewas re-elected in 1866. In 1867, Gen. Hayes was elected Governor ofOhio, over Hon. Allen G. Thurman, a popularDemocrat, and in 1869 was re-elected over GeorgeH. Pendleton. He was elected Governor for thethird term in 1875. In 1876 he was the standard-bearer of the Re-publican party in the Presidential contest, andafter a hard, long contes
. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . ; but he fi-nally declared, I shall never come to Washing-ton until I can come by waj of Richmond. Hewas re-elected in 1866. In 1867, Gen. Hayes was elected Governor ofOhio, over Hon. Allen G. Thurman, a popularDemocrat, and in 1869 was re-elected over GeorgeH. Pendleton. He was elected Governor for thethird term in 1875. In 1876 he was the standard-bearer of the Re-publican party in the Presidential contest, andafter a hard, long contest was chosen President,and was inaugurated Monday, March 5, served his full term, not, however, with satis-faction to his party, but his administration was anaverage one. The remaining years of his lifewere passed quietly in his Ohio home, where hepassed away January 17, JAMES A. GARFIELD. 3AMES A. GARFIELD, twentieth Presidentof the United States, was boni Nuveniber 19,1831, in the woods of Orange, CuyahogaCounty, Ohio. His parents were Abram andEliza (Ballouj Garfield, both of New Englandancestry, and from families well known in theearly history of that .section of our countr}-, butwho had moved to the Western Reserv^e, in Ohio,early in its settlement. The house in which James A. was born wasnot unlike the houses of poor Ohio farmers ofthat day. It was about 20 x 30 feet, built of logs,with the spaces between the logs filled with father was a hard-working farmer, and hesoon had his fields cleared, an orchard planted,and a log barn built. The household comprisedthe father and mother and their four children,Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and James. In May,1823, the father died from a cold contracted inhelping to put out a forest fire. At this timeJames was about eighteen months old, andThomas about ten years old. No one, perhaps,can tell how much Ja
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