Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . terature and the-ology. He was a profound student and an exhaustive reader. Hefairly devoured books, and wherever he was, at home or on the wingof travel, he was seldom seen without a book in his hand. Hislibrary of about eighteen thousand volumes is regarded as one of themost valuable private collections of books in the English language inour country. By his unceasing mental labor a robust physical con-stitution was undermined, and he died of asth
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . terature and the-ology. He was a profound student and an exhaustive reader. Hefairly devoured books, and wherever he was, at home or on the wingof travel, he was seldom seen without a book in his hand. Hislibrary of about eighteen thousand volumes is regarded as one of themost valuable private collections of books in the English language inour country. By his unceasing mental labor a robust physical con-stitution was undermined, and he died of asthenia. For two yearshe declined in strength of mind and body, and finally died Chapin received the honorary degree of from HarvardCollege, and of from Tuffts College. The list of his publicworks is long, for he was an able and ready writer as well as a greatpreacher. His writings are chiefly on religious and benevolent sub-jects. Many ministers of other denominations were present at Dr. Cha-pins funeral, and addresses were delivered by Rev. Her\ry WaidBeecher, Dr. Armitage, and Robert Collyer. JAMES ABRAM GAKFIELD. 489. JAMES ABEAM GARFIELD. PROBABLY oiir country has never produced a more perfectlyrounded character — ph3-sically, morally,— thanthat of James A. Garfield, who fell by the hand of an assassin, in was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 19, 1831, and wasleft fatherless when he was a small child. His mother (living in 1886)molded the character of this her youngest boy; and when Ihat boy,nearly fifty years of age,was inaugurated President of the United States,in 1881, he acknowledged his indebtedness to her, by kissing her vener-able cheeks when he had taken the oath of office in the presence ofthousands of his fellow-citizens assembled at the National Capital. Garfields early 3^ears were spent in alternate manual labor in the warmseason, and in attendance at school in winter. For a while he was thedriver of a
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