Self-control—Her characteristics—Before her marriage—General
Garfield’s early life—Elected to the Senate—Death of a
child—Letter to her husband—Her husband’s tribute—The family at
Mentor—Description of her home—Mrs. Garfield at home—Personal
appearance—“Mother Garfield”—A scene at the inauguration—The
President’s family at Washington—Early life of Mother
Garfield—Mother and son—Inauguration scenes—A brilliant scene—The
inauguration ball—The ladies of the Cabinet—The children of the
President—Mrs. Garfield’s illness—At Long Branch—Saturday, July
2d, “The President shot”—Incidents of the assassination—Removal
to the White House—Heroic suffering—Letter to Mother Garfield—Not
a politician—Sympathy of the people—The relapse—Removal to Long
Branch—A little boy’s sympathy—Anxious waiting—Died September
19th, 1881—The death-bed scene—Alone with her dead—Mother
Garfield—Leaving Elberon—Tributes by the way—The last look—The
Queen’s floral tribute—The start for Cleveland—Scenes by the
way—At Cleveland—The funeral procession—At the cemetery—The last
scene—The Queen’s sympathy 665
“THE WHITE HOUSE.”
Corner-stone laid—How constructed—Where situated—Trees planted by
John Quincy Adams—Green-House—Why so called 731
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