A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . acle ceasetl to be when the JIusieHall was built. In the same spirit, Mr. Doan also built the Arnuirythat stood at the corner of ICuclid Avenue and Doan (East OneHundred and Fifth) Street. W. 11. Doan was tiu snii i)f Job in a preceding cluipter. A. G.\ On the second of .July, 18S1, came news of tlie shouting of IrcsideulGarticld at Washington; on the ninettentli of S<ptemliii-. came w(Ud 1881] DEATH OF IKKSIDHXT GARFIELD 273 that the president was dead. James A. Car
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . acle ceasetl to be when the JIusieHall was built. In the same spirit, Mr. Doan also built the Arnuirythat stood at the corner of ICuclid Avenue and Doan (East OneHundred and Fifth) Street. W. 11. Doan was tiu snii i)f Job in a preceding cluipter. A. G.\ On the second of .July, 18S1, came news of tlie shouting of IrcsideulGarticld at Washington; on the ninettentli of S<ptemliii-. came w(Ud 1881] DEATH OF IKKSIDHXT GARFIELD 273 that the president was dead. James A. Carfield was really a Cleve-lander. Born in Cuyahoga County, student and eollege president atIlirani, and later livinf; at Mentor, ho was always in close touch withthe Heart of the Western lieserve and now that great heart he dii-d, the Cleveland hells tullecl the sad news and, at half-hour intervals, the artillery struck the deep diajjason of the grief-laden dirge. The body was brought home on the twenty-fourth ofSeptember and for two days lay in state in a |)aviliiin liuilt in the. Interior of Garfield Monument Public Square while thousands passed by in procession. After solemnservices on the twenty-sixth, with an escort of honor and a pro-cession five miles long, the body borne out Euclid Avenue toLakeview Cemetery and placed in a vault, there to remain underconstant military guard until a more stately tomb could be June, 1882, the Garfield National Monument Association was in-corporated. More than fifty designs for the memorial were sub-mitted and, in July, 188:}. that of George Keller of Hartford wasaccepted. On the highest ridge in tlie cemetery the beautifulmemorial, largely a tower fifty feet in diameter, was built. On the Vol. 1—18 274 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS fChap. XVIII thirtieth of May. 1890, it was formally dedicated in the presence ofPresident Harrison, Vice-president ]Morton, General Sherman, sev-eral members of the presidents cabinet
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