THE

LIFE AND WORK

OF

JAMES A. GARFIELD,

TWENTIETH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

EMBRACING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF HIS BOYHOOD; THE
STRUGGLES OF HIS YOUTH; THE MIGHT OF HIS EARLY MAN-
HOOD; HIS VALOR AS A SOLDIER; HIS CAREER

AS A STATESMAN; HIS ELECTION TO

THE PRESIDENCY;

AND

THE TRAGIC STORY OF HIS DEATH.

BY

JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL. D.,

AUTHOR OF A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; A GRAMMAR-SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES; AN INDUCTIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ETC.

COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED.

P. W. ZIEGLER & CO.,

PHILADELPHIA AND CHICAGO.

973.84 G231r

COPYRIGHTED, 1881, BY J. T. JONES.