A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . hogaCounty, Ohio, JSTovember19, 1831. While he wasan infant his father diedand he was left to the careof his noble mother, towhom he was devotedlyattached. Garfield spent his boy-hood in the backwoods, andat one time was the driverof a canal-boat. He becamestrong, rugged, and a fineathlete, and at the sametime obtained the rudimentsof an English the age of seventeen heattended the high scho
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . hogaCounty, Ohio, JSTovember19, 1831. While he wasan infant his father diedand he was left to the careof his noble mother, towhom he was devotedlyattached. Garfield spent his boy-hood in the backwoods, andat one time was the driverof a canal-boat. He becamestrong, rugged, and a fineathlete, and at the sametime obtained the rudimentsof an English the age of seventeen heattended the high schoolat Cliester, and by hard study acquired an excellent knowledge of Latin, Greek,and algebra. He was a student at Hiram College, and became an instructorin 1854. The same year he entered Williams College, from which he wasgraduated with honor in 1856. He returned to Ohio, and Avas appointed aprofessor in Hiram College. He indulged his taste for politics and law, andserved for a time in the State Senate, but was president of the college whenthe war broke out. He at once volunteered, and was appointed lieutenant-coloneland afterward colonel of the Forty-second Regiment of Ohio THE BOY JAMES GARFIELD BRINGING HIS FIRSTDAYS EARNINGS TO HIS MOTHER CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. 435 Garfield displayed remarkable ability in the military service, and had heremained would have won high distinction. As a brigadier-general he did finework in Kentucky and Tennessee He was chief-of-staff to General Rosecrans,and showed great gallantry in the tremendous battle of Chickamauga. He wasin the field when elected to Congress in 1862. His desire was to remain, but, atthe personal request of President Lincoln, he entered Congress, where it was felthis help was needed in the important legislation before the country. The estimatein which he was held by his fellow-citizens is shown by tlie fact that he servedas a member of Congress for seventeen years. In 1879 he was chosen UnitedStates senator, bu
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