Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . to the pioneer homethat is deprived of the strong arm of the husband and father. The mother of Garfield proved equal to the task. She was of thatnoble strain of blood inherited from a Huguenot ancestry—the fugitives ofFrance, under the Edict of Nantes. In her own religious faith, was a disciple of the humble Campbellite school, but from suchancestry she drew the poetry that softened into loveliness her religion, andthe spirit that
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . to the pioneer homethat is deprived of the strong arm of the husband and father. The mother of Garfield proved equal to the task. She was of thatnoble strain of blood inherited from a Huguenot ancestry—the fugitives ofFrance, under the Edict of Nantes. In her own religious faith, was a disciple of the humble Campbellite school, but from suchancestry she drew the poetry that softened into loveliness her religion, andthe spirit that enabled her to face poverty with a serene faith in herselfand in God. From his fathers family James A. Garfield inherited physical andmoral strength, and from his mother he received that intellectual vigorand those fine mental qualities which have marked the generationsdescended from Maturin Ballon. At three years of age he began toattend school in the little log hut where his older brother and sisters weretaught. At the end of the first term lie received the prize ot a NewTestament as the best reader in his class of little ones. At tea he was. 344 PRESIDENTS. SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. still a student in the same school, seeking in all direction for books toread. By the time he was fourteen he had reached higher arithmetic,grammar, declamation; out jf school was a strong, athletic boy, doinghis share of farm work, and getting the name of a fighting boy by hi3successful contests of fist and foot with his schoolmates. At sixteen heworked at haying, receiving full mens rates, a dollar a day. A yearlater came his canal boat experience, when he drove the horses of a canalboat along the Ohio river until an attack of fever ended this part of hiscareer, and sent him home to his mother to be nursed to bodily health,while her wisdom and love gave the right turning to hi3 untrained mind. In March, 1849, young Garfield entered Geauga Seminary, a Free WillBaptist institution of learning at Che
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