Finding aid for the James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III
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James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III |
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Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
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Garfield, James A. Family |
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1859-1990 |
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3.10 linear feet (3 containers and 10 oversize folders) |
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James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams
College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ
Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel
of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives,
where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted
from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow,
Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry
Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and member
of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, election tallies,
essays, book inscriptions, legal papers, corporate records, scholarly and political notes, a minute book, scrapbooks, receipts,
invitations, sympathy cards, calling cards, newspaper clippings, notebooks, pamphlets, phrenology charts, a eulogy, a presentation
album, a resolution, a lock of hair, broadsides, programs, poems, sheet music, drawings, lithographs, and paintings.
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MS 4790 |
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closed stacks |
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The records are in English |
History of the James A. Garfield Family
Members of the James A. Garfield family lived for several generations at the family homestead known as Lawnfield, located
in Mentor, Ohio. Garfield's presidential campaign in 1880 was often conducted from the front porch of his home at Lawnfield,
a name given the property by members of the press covering the presidential campaign. Over the span of 50 years (1876-1936),
family members left private and public papers and family memorabilia that documented events in their lives.
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield, twentieth president of the United States, was born in Orange Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on November
19, 1831, the youngest son of Abram and Elizabeth Ballou Garfield. The death of Abram Garfield when James was four years
old resulted in a life of hardship for the Garfield family. Despite their reduced circumstances, young James was able to
attend Geauga Seminary in Chester, Ohio, and Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, now Hiram College, from 1851-1854, before
attending Williams College in Williams, Massachusetts. After graduating from Williams College in 1856, Garfield returned
to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute as an instructor in Greek and Latin. He went on to serve as president of the Institute
from 1857-1861. Garfield was also a lay minister in the Disciples of Christ Church, a practicing attorney after he was admitted
to the Ohio bar in 1859, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 1859-1861.
At the start of the Civil War Garfield volunteered for duty in the Union Army and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in
the Forty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served with distinction in the Western campaigns, particularly during the battles
at Shiloh and Chickamaugua. When Garfield was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1863, he resigned
his commission as major general. As a Republican he represented Ohio for seventeen years, sitting as a member on the Military
Affairs, Ways and Means, Appropriations, and Banking and Finance Committees.
Although he was elected to the United States Senate in 1880, Garfield never took his seat. Instead, at the Republican National
Convention, held in Chicago, Illinois, in June of 1880, Garfield became a compromise candidate for the presidency, with Chester
A. Arthur of New York as the vice-presidential nominee. The Garfield-Arthur slate was elected by a narrow margin. Garfield's
new administration was besieged by patronage disputes, despite his pledge to reform the Civil Service. On July 2, 1881, while
waiting to board a train at Washington's Baltimore and Potomac Station, Garfield was shot by Charles Julius Guiteau. He lay
gravely wounded for more than two months. At his request he was moved to the seaside town of Elberon, New Jersey, where he
died of his wounds on September 19, 1881. Garfield was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 26,
1881. His remains were later interred in the Garfield monument erected on the grounds of Lake View, dedicated in May 1890.
James A. Garfield was married to Lucretia Rudolph in 1858. They had seven children; Eliza Arabella, 1860-1863; Harry Augustus,
1863-1942; Mary (Mollie), 1867-1947; Irwin McDowell, 1870-1951; Abram, 1871-1958; James Rudolph, 1865-1950; and Edward (Ned),
1874-1876.
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, wife of James A. Garfield and daughter of Zebulon Rudolph and Arabella Green Mason, was born April
19, 1832, in Hiram, Ohio, or possibly Garrettsville, Ohio. She attended Geauga Academy in Chester, Ohio, at the same time
as her future husband, and pursued her education at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute where Garfield was an instructor in
Latin and Greek. Her father was a trustee of the Institute and a leading elder in the Disciples of Christ Church in Hiram.
Lucretia Rudolph and James A. Garfield were married on November 11, 1858, in a ceremony at her father's home in Hiram. The
family home remained in Hiram until Garfield was elected to Congress. He then built a home in Washington, D. C., for his
family. After Garfield's death in 1881, Mrs. Garfield remained at Lawnfield, but spent her winters in warmer climates, finally
building a home in Pasadena, California, in 1903. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield died in Pasadena, California, March 13, 1918.
She was buried next to her husband in Lake View Cemetery.
Lawnfield
Originally know as the Dickey farm in Mentor, Ohio, the property which the Garfield family purchased in 1876 became know as
Lawnfield during James A. Garfield's presidential campaign in 1880. By that time renovations and improvements had been made
to the original property, including a story and a half addition to the main house. After Garfield's death in 1881, the main
house was again enlarged with the addition of a memorial library and vault in 1885-1886. Lawnfield hosted many family affairs,
including the double marriage ceremony of Mollie Garfield to Joseph Stanley-Brown, her father's personal secretary, and of
Harry Augustus Garfield to Belle Hartford Mason on June 18, 1888. The property remained in the Garfield family until 1936
when portions of it were deeded to the Western Reserve Historical Society and it became a museum under the stewardship of
Ivan and Veda Sutliff. Additional acreage was deeded to the society in 1944. In 1964 Lawnfield was dedicated as a National
Historic Landmark, and in 1966 went on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1975 the remainder of the property held
by the Garfield family was sold to the Lake County Historical Society. In December 1980 the United States Congress authorized
the Lawnfield property as the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, a unit of the National Park System. The act included
a cooperative agreement between the Park Service and the Western Reserve Historical Society that gave the Society authority
for the day-to-day operations, interpretation, and site maintenance. Between 1984 and 1988 the National Park Service acquired
the portion of land still owned by the Lake County Historical Society, and the remainder of land held by the Western Reserve
Historical Society was donated to the Park Service. After an extensive restoration of the property by the National Park Service,
Lawnfield was reopened to the public in June 1998.
Garfield and Garfield Attorneys Three of James A. Garfield's sons became lawyers. In 1888 James Rudolph and his brother Harry Augustus established
the firm of Garfield and Garfield in Cleveland. Harry Augustus eventually left the practice, but James Rudolph remained a
senior partner in the succeeding firm, Garfield, Baldwin, Jameson, Hope and Ulrich for more than sixty years. The law firm
specialized in corporate law, and property and investment management.
Click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for James A. Garfield
Scope and Content
The James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III, 1859-1990, consist of correspondence, election tallies, essays, book inscriptions,
legal papers, corporate records, scholarly and political notes, a minute book, scrapbooks, receipts, invitations, sympathy
cards, calling cards, newspaper clippings, notebooks, pamphlets, phrenology charts, a eulogy, a presentation album, a resolution,
a lock of hair, broadsides, programs, poems, sheet music, drawings, lithographs, and paintings.
This collection is of interest to students of the Garfield family, education, the Disciples of Christ Church, United States
electioneering practices between 1870 and 1880, alterations to the property at Lawnfield and changes in the administration
of the site, the Republican Party, and Victorian mourning customs. Case files in from the firm of Garfield & Garfield in
Series V, will be of interest to historians of technology as well as urban and legal scholars, providing a glimpse of building
construction, litigation, real estate, manufacturing, modernization, and the growth of infrastructure in Cleveland and other
municipalities in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Statement of Arrangement
The collection is arranged in eight series.
Series I: James Abram Garfield is arranged alphabetically by document type.
Series II: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield is arranged alphabetically by document type.
Series III: Garfield Family is arranged alphabetically by the name of family member.
Series IV: Lawnfield is arranged alphabetically by document type.
Series V: Garfield & Garfield Attorneys at Law, Cleveland, Ohio is arranged alphabetically by client or litigant's surname.
Series VI: Miscellany is arranged alphabetically by document type.
Series VII: Artwork is arranged alphabetically by image type.
Series VII: Oversize Materials contains materials described elsewhere in the collection.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Related Material: Related Material
The researcher should also consult MS 4575 James A. Garfield Family Papers, Microfilm Edition, and MS 4579 James A. Garfield
Family Papers, Series II. Those studying James A. Garfield should consult MS 3049 James Abram Garfield Collection and MS
3263 James A. Garfield Collection of Letters. Garfield family members are also represented in MS 3160 Henry B. Boynton Papers,
MS 3254 James Mason Family Papers, MS 3314 James R. Garfield Family Papers, MS 3353 Adelaide Rudolph Papers, MS 3695 Abram
Garfield Papers, MS 4571 Mary (Mollie) Garfield Stanley-Brown Papers, MS 4572 Helen Newell Garfield Papers, MS 4573 James
Rudolph Garfield Papers, and MS 4580 James A. Garfield II Family Papers. Researchers interested in Lawnfield should consult
MS 3049 James A. Garfield Collection and MS 4574 Lawnfield Farm Papers.
Separated Material: Separated Material
All photographs have been removed to PG 497 James A. Garfield Family Photographs.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects:
Garfield & Garfield (Cleveland, Ohio).
Garfield family.
Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942.
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950.
Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918.
James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio)
Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Mourning customs -- United States.
Political campaigns -- United States.
Presidents -- United States -- Family.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Rudolph family.
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941.
Preferred Citation
[Folder ____, Container ____ ] MS 4790 James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland,
Ohio
Acquisition Information
Lawnfield, James A. Garfield National Historic Site, 1998.
Processing Information
Processed by Patricia J. Stahley and Christopher P. Grasso in 2001.
Detailed Description of The Collection
Series I: James Abram Garfield, 1859-1919
Box 1 / Folder 1
Broadside, James Abram Garfield funeral, "The Lake Shore and Michigan South. Railway. Special Time Card to afford an opportunity
to view the remains and witness the Funeral Ceremonies of our Late President," (original housed in Oversize Folder 9, Folder
144), 1881
Box 1 / Folder 2
Calling cards, 1860-1880
Box 1 / Folder 3
Charts, phrenology, photocopies, James Abram Garfield, marked by A. Sizer; and L. R. Wells, marked by James Abram Garfield, 1864
Box 1 / Folder 4
Essays, typed, "Dr. John Peter Robison and James Abram Garfield," (backing from a photograph of two portraits of Robison and
Garfield); "News of the Election of Gen James A. Garfield," photocopy; and "Biographical Sketch of Dr. John Peter Robison,"
photocopy, undated
Box 1 / Folder 5
Eulogy, handwritten, James G. Blaine for James Abram Garfield, last page only, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 6
Handbill, "Earnest Work Needed" to circulate "pamphlets on the subject of Indian wrongs," The Committee on Indian Petition, undated
Box 1 / Folder 7
Handbill, "General Order, Navy Department," following the death of President Garfield, issued by William H. Hunt, Secretary
of the Navy, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 8
Inscription, James Abram Garfield to himself, photocopy, undated
Box 1 / Folder 9
Inscription, James Abram Garfield to James Rudolph Garfield, 1876
Box 1 / Folder 10
Inscriptions, to James Abram Garfield, 1850-1880
Box 1 / Folder 11
Invitation, "Inaugural Reception and Promenade Concert", 1881
Box 1 / Folder 12
Invitation, "Memorial Service of James Abram Garfield . . . Eulogy by Hon. James G. Blaine, House of Representatives", 1882
Box 1 / Folder 13
Minute book, "The Quintinkle" memorial volume, includes the following entries: "Origin of the Quintinkle," lists five founding
members who entered into a pledge of mutual assistance in August 1861 and subsequent members; minutes, meeting at the home
of John P. Robison, Mentor, Ohio; memorial, "In Memoriam. James Abram Garfield," by Isaac Errett; minutes, meeting at the
home of W. S. Streator, Cleveland, Ohio; minutes, meeting at the home of Lucretia R. Garfield, Cleveland, Ohio; minutes, meeting
at the home of John P. Robison, Mentor, Ohio; minutes, meeting at the home of John P. Robison, Mentor, Ohio; memorial, "The
passing of Henry M. Turner", 1873-1919
Box 1 / Folder 14
Newspaper, "Requiescat: The Last Rites at Cleveland," The San Francisco Chronicle (original housed in Oversize Folder 4, Folder
137), 1881
Box 1 / Folder 15
Newspaper clippings, "A Church which Garfield Dedicated," [Disciple Church at Wellington, Ohio, dedicated in 1859], unidentified
newspaper, undated; and "First Anniversary of the Cedar Avenue Disciple Church," Cleveland Herald (photocopy), 1884
Box 1 / Folder 16
Newspaper supplement, "EXTRA-Attempted Assassination," Geauga Republican, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 17
Notes, election returns, 1875
Box 1 / Folder 18
Notes, United States House of Representatives, 1863-1880
Box 1 / Folder 19
Notes, "Sounds of the Hebrew Consonants", undated
Box 1 / Folder 20
Notes and printed remarks, Ohio Senate, 1861
Box 1 / Folder 21
Pamphlet, "To the Honorable the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States of America," communicating attitudes
of U. S. manufacturers regarding "The Eaton Tariff Commission Bill", 1881
Box 1 / Folder 22
Pamphlets, newspaper clippings, newspaper supplements, United States Navy rank reform, 1869-1870
Box 1 / Folder 23
Poems, "Assassination of Garfield," "Garfield," and "Garfield," handwritten by C. H. M., 1881
Box 1 / Folder 24
Program, "The Olive Branch," Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Ohio, 1859
Box 1 / Folder 25
Resolution, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, Orient of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 26
Scrapbook, M. O. Garritt, compiler, "Speeches of Eminent Men"; [book formerly used as a ledger; contains newspaper clippings
of political addresses including several from James Abram Garfield], 1880-1885
Box 1 / Folder 27
Sheet music, James Abram Garfield inaugural march and funeral marches (originals housed in Container 3, Folder 130, Oversize
Materials), 1880-1881
Box 1 / Folder 28
Songbook of German Hymns, inscribed with Garfield's name; song sheet, "With Garfield We'll Conquer Again", 1879-1880
Box 1 / Folder 29
Stationery, "Executive Mansion, Washington," with note: "Official mourning paper-JA Garfield, September 19, 1881, to March
19, 1882", 1881
Series II: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1881-1919
Box 1 / Folder 30
Cards, sympathy, including handwritten note of condolence from Victoria, Queen of England, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 31
Check register, Pasadena, California house, 1909
Box 1 / Folder 32
Envelope, note written by L[ucretia] R[udolph] G[arfield]: "Hat worn by President on the morning of July 2nd 1881. . . .", 1881
Box 1 / Folder 33
Inscriptions, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 34
Inscriptions, 1881-1919
Box 1 / Folder 35
Invitation, "Mrs. Tracy, 502 Euclid Avenue," (Cleveland, Ohio), for a series of three lectures, 1893
Box 1 / Folder 36
Letter, George H. Hollister to Lucretia Rudolph Garfield in which he claims to have found James Abram Garfield's pocketknife;
includes sketch of knife, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 37
Letter, Wm. R. Staats Co., Investment Bankers, to Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield, 1902
Box 1 / Folder 38
Letter, unidentified sender to Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, accompanied a gift of two small pillows for James Abram Garfield, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 39
Letter, unidentified sender and recipient: mentions "Mrs. Garfield is ill", undated
Box 1 / Folder 40
Letters, Jane Garfield to Lucretia Rudolph Garfield; and Rowe Rudolph to Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1882
Box 1 / Folder 41
Notes, homework, classics, and algebra, undated
Box 1 / Folder 42
Notes, psychology, 1909
Box 1 / Folder 43
Notes, "Lincoln's Message of 1864," from Twenty Years of Congress: Lincoln to Garfield, by James G. Blaine; includes photocopy
of inscription from Blaine to Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, undated
Box 1 / Folder 44
Proceedings, City of Charleston, South Carolina, on the death of James A. Garfield, presented to Mrs. Garfield (original housed
in Container 3, Folder 129 Oversize Materials), 1882
Series III: Garfield Family, 1876-1930
Box 1 / Folder 45
Garfield, Edward, lock of hair, in envelope with note: "Neddie's Hair-October 25th 1876.", 1876
Box 1 / Folder 46
Garfield, Edward, Eliza Ballou, obituary, newspaper clipping from the Cleveland Herald, 1888
Box 1 / Folder 47
Garfield, Edward, Harry Augustus, compositions, "The Centennial," and "Steam"; and notes, penmanship and Greek homework, 1876
Box 1 / Folder 48
Garfield, Edward, Harry Augustus and Mollie, announcements, double wedding: Harry Augustus Garfield to Belle Hartford Mason;
Mollie Garfield to Joseph Stanley-Brown; and ticket for special train to Mentor, 1888
Box 1 / Folder 49
Garfield, Edward, Irvin?, notes, algebra homework, undated
Box 1 / Folder 50
Garfield, Edward, James Rudolph, notebook, bound, "James Rudolph Garfield, Mentor, Ohio, 1895," contains alphabetical index
to United States Senate bills and notes on views of contributors, also includes photocopy of clipping, "Secretary Lane's Message,"
which appeared in the Washington Times, December 25, 1913, and praises James Rudolph Garfield; and sheet music, "A Christmas
Hymn," privately printed, 1895
Box 1 / Folder 51
Garfield, Edward, James Rudolph, postcard, "Garfield's Old Home-Hiram, Ohio," from Stella M. Atwood, 1930
Box 1 / Folder 52
Garfield, Edward, Mason, book, poems and sheet music, handwritten, undated
Box 1 / Folder 53
Garfield, Edward, Mollie?, notes, algebra, undated
Box 1 / Folder 54
Garfield, Edward, Rudolph, Edward, notes, algebra, arithmetic, Latin, and trigonometry, 1893
Box 1 / Folder 55
Garfield, Edward, Edward, P., notebook, "Notes in Surveying", 1895
Box 1 / Folder 56
Garfield, Edward, Joseph, letter from John N. Yallis, 1900
Box 1 / Folder 57
Garfield, Edward, Max J., notes, algebra, physical geography, Greek, and Latin homework, 1889
Box 1 / Folder 58
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, notes, German homework, 1884-1885
Box 1 / Folder 59
Unidentified family member(s), drawings, notes, and pressing book, undated
Box 1 / Folder 60
Unidentified Garfield son, letter to parent(s), on St. Paul's (New Hampshire) School Stationery, undated
Series IV: Lawnfield, 1881-1953
Box 1 / Folder 61
Clipping, "The Garfield Farm," and "The Garfield Mansion," articles and diagrams, New York Herald, 1881
Box 1 / Folder 62
Letter, Don Smith to Ivan Sutliff, Lawnfield co-director, 1937
Box 1 / Folder 63
List, items purchased for Garfield Home by Ivan Sutliff, 1936
Box 1 / Folder 64
Receipts, renovation, 1904
Box 1 / Folder 65
Scrapbook, compiled by Veda Sutliff, Lawnfield co-director, cards, including greetings from the Garfield family; correspondence,
including letter from Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton; and newspaper clippings and pamphlets, 1936-1953
Box 1 / Folder 66
Specifications, masonry, 1885
Series V: Garfield & Garfield Attorneys at Law, Cleveland, Ohio, 1881-1897
Box 1 / Folder 67
Adams, William M., vs. Harry De. C. Richards, The Lorain County Light & Power Co., The State Trust Company; correspondence,
including letters, petition, answers, counter-claim, in Adams's suit seeking payment for work performed in the construction
of an electric plant and lines in Elyria, Ohio; also included copy of the construction contract, correspondence with other
suppliers and contractors, and Adams's itemized lists of costs he incurred during the project; and Lorain County Court of
Common Pleas, Case # 3359, 1891
Box 1 / Folder 68
Boynton, Anna T. vs. Charles E. French, Mary French, Martha French, Horace E. Sanborn, and R. S. Hubbard, petition, precipe,
and cross-petitions, for personal judgment and foreclosure, 1896-1897
Box 1 / Folder 69
Bratenahl, George Carl F., and Gustav W. Bratenahl, unexecuted lease agreements with Edgar G. Day and Mary B. Day, 1891
Box 1 / Folder 70
Bratenahl, George Carl F., and Gustav W. Bratenahl, correspondence, Garfield & Garfield administered leases on many properties
owned by the Bratenahls, especially to concerns located in the Bratenahl Building; among these were the Reliance Oil and Grease
Company, tenants, 1891-1892
Box 1 / Folder 71
Bratenahl, George Carl F., and Gustav W. Bratenahl, correspondence, principally between the Bratenahls and the J. H. McLain
Co., tenants, Canton, Ohio, makers of brass and iron goods, 1892
Box 1 / Folder 72
Bratenahl, George Carl F., and Gustav W. Bratenahl, records pertaining to the Edgewood Poultry Company, in which the Bratenahls
held stock including bills receivable, correspondence, legal notes, list of precedents, trustee resolution, and sales statement, 1892
Box 1 / Folder 73
Bratenahl, G[eorge] C[arl] F., and G[ustav] W. Bratenahl vs. P. L. Swad and C. D. Swad, tenants, bill of particulars, for
unpaid store rent in the Bratenahl Building, 1893
Box 1 / Folder 74
Bratenahl, George Carl F., correspondence, record of a long distance phone conversation between Garfield & Garfield on stock
and incorporation matters pertaining to the Bronson Supply Company and the Avery Stamping Company, 1893-1895
Box 2 / Folder 75
Bratenahl, George Carl F., financial records, from the Bronson Supply Company, cash statement, financial statement, ledgers,
loss statement, receipts, and sales reports, 1895
Box 2 / Folder 76
Bryant, Thomas J., vs. Charles B. Mack and Fred[erick] H. Mack, correspondence, between Bryant and Garfield & Garfield in
the collection of money due Bryant's Art and Business College, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1892
Box 2 / Folder 77
Chase, Daniel E., legal notes, affidavits, reports, regarding the settlement of the estate of the deceased, Probate Court,
Docket 26, State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County #5170, 1891-1897
Box 2 / Folder 78
Cleveland Building Company, correspondence, regarding construction of the Garfield Building, including extensive correspondence
with Charles Lathrop Pack, a prominent Clevelander and co-financier of the venture, 1894
Box 2 / Folder 79
Cleveland Building Company, correspondence, regarding construction of the Garfield Building, 1894
Box 2 / Folder 80
Coon, Clyde E. and Winfield S. Coon [C. E. Coon & Co.] vs. Bloomington Water Works Co., the City of Bloomington, Indiana,
The Addyston Pipe and Steel Company, John T. Clark, Carl A. Erlund, cross-bills, court receipts, petitions, for recovery of
funds owed pursuant to the construction of a water works for the City of Bloomington, United States Circuit Court, District
of Indiana, No. 8902, 1894-1896
Box 2 / Folder 81
De. C. Richards, Henry, vs. George M. McPeck and John F. Zwerner, bill for court fees, correspondence, legal briefs and notes,
list of precedents, petition and answer; Henry De. C. Richards sued the defendants to recoup an investment in a water works
for the Village of Marysville, Union County, Ohio; United States Circuit Court, Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, 1890-1892
Box 2 / Folder 82
De. C. Richards, Henry, vs. George M. McPeck, Walter C. Fullington Zwerner, and Jerome S. Davis, petition and precipe, regarding
an alleged "false and malicious accusation of blackmail," Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Case #42418, 1892
Box 2 / Folder 83
Earl W. Card Co. vs. F. B. Brown, correspondence, the plaintiff acting on behalf of A. J. McCormick for an amount due him, 1893-1894
Box 2 / Folder 84
Fairbanks, Frank, vs. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, legal correspondence, lawsuit sought compensation for fire damage
to trees on Fairbanks' property, 1894
Box 2 / Folder 85
Fidelity Mutual Life Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, correspondence, handwritten, telegram between Garfield & Garfield
and W. S. Campbell, secretary for the Fidelity Mutual Life Association, regarding the claim of F. W. Trumper, 89 Euclid, Cleveland,
Ohio, 1892
Box 2 / Folder 86
Fink, Simon, and Henry Bodenheimer, "doing business as" Fink, Bodenheimer & Co.," vs. E. R. Kant, Mrs. Carrie Baumann, Mrs.
Wm. Ingram, and Mrs. F. S. Graf, newspaper clipping; receipts; petition [to set aside conveyances]. State of Ohio, Cuyahoga
County Court of Common Pleas #39342; petition [to set aside conveyances in the matter of] Samuel H. Fink, Simon Fink, and
Henry Bodenheimer, doing business as Fink, Bodenheimer & Co.," vs. E. R. Kant, Elizabeth Kant, W. H. Kees as administrator
of the estate of W. R. Kant, deceased, Julius King Optical Company, Sigler Brothers, Hamilton Roosa, Carrie Baumann, Mrs.
William Ingram, and Mrs. F. S. Graf; Court of Common Pleas #39525, 1891
Box 2 / Folder 87
Freeman, T. E., correspondence with Garfield and Garfield; Freeman, a wholesale produce and commission merchant from Sandusky,
Ohio, sought to collect on a past due account with Messrs. Charles Green and Co. or Green Brothers & Co.; possibly later adjudicated
as T. E. Freeman vs. Green Brothers & Co., 1894
Box 2 / Folder 88
Gray, Jenks and Company vs. Harpin A. Botsford, correspondence, regarding the defendant's embezzlement of funds from Gray,
Jenks and Company; including extradition efforts, subsequent letters to Thomas L. Thompson, ambassador to Brazil, sought to
arrange payment for Botsford's transport between Brazil and the United States, 1892
Box 2 / Folder 89
Gray, Jenks and Company vs. Harpin A. Botsford, correspondence, 1893
Box 2 / Folder 90
Gray National Telautograph Company, brochures, correspondence, financial statement, lease and license agreement, list of officers
and directors, list of stockholders, newspaper clippings (photocopies), stock prospectus, and Telautograph samples; [Garfield
& Garfield was involved in the effort to establish a Cleveland distributor for the product], 1893-1894
Box 2 / Folder 91
Gridley, Marinda E., vs. Jonathan G. Reardon, legal correspondence, regarding an unpaid mortgage, 1889-1894
Box 2 / Folder 92
Gwathmey, L. T., vs. The Cleveland Ohio Livestock Insurance Association, correspondence, petitions, affidavits, bill of particulars,
receipt, and premium, regarding Gwathmey's claim on the gelding "Tobacco Boy," Justice of the Peace L. T. Bauder, State of
Ohio, County of Cuyahoga, Court of Common Pleas #41452, 1891-1894
Box 2 / Folder 93
Herron, John W., vs. Anna Conley, replies, three drafts, bill, construction specifications, correspondence, handwritten petition,
list of precedents, motion for continuance, notes for witness examinations and cross examination, receipts, and reply (two
drafts), pertaining to alleged fraud in the construction of a burial vault; Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas #57685, 1895-1900
Box 2 / Folder 94
Jones, E. E. vs. The North Shore Export Brewing Company, William Kruger, George Schwan, Ernest C. Schwan, et al., petition,
two answers & cross-petition, mechanic's lien, motion, receipts; "petition to subject stockholders liability and for other
and equitable relief" for masonry work performed, 1896
Box 2 / Folder 95
Mason, Mrs. Caroline R., ledgers, documenting her finances, 1883-1887
Box 2 / Folder 96
Mason, Mrs. Caroline R., fire insurance premium, house leases, land contracts, and notices to leave premises, 1881-1892
Box 2 / Folder 97
Mason, Mrs. Caroline R., correspondence, house specifications, and receipts, 1890-1891
Box 2 / Folder 98
Mason, Mrs. Caroline R., building permits and receipts for houses built on Belden Street, Cleveland, Ohio, 1890
Box 2 / Folder 99
"National Bank of Commerce vs. Pacific Refining Co.," file cover only, undated
Box 2 / Folder 100
National Loan and Investment Company, Detroit, Michigan; legal correspondence, financial reports, business brochures, newspaper
clipping, between Garfield & Garfield and George H. Paine, secretary of the National Loan and Investment Company, 1890-1892
Box 2 / Folder 101
Neff, Peter, handwritten correspondence and notes of James Rudolph Garfield and Harry Augustus Garfield, regarding a real
estate deal with Neff, who was introduced to the Garfields in a letter by Mr. A. St. J. Newberry; telegram, J[oseph] Stanley-Brown
to Garfield & Garfield, "Foster speaks Dayton tonight Chicago twenty and twenty first,", 1892-1893
Box 2 / Folder 102
Parsons, Frederick M. vs. The Parsons Co., [manufacturers of homeopathic supplies and medications] answer, bond, contract,
court orders, ledger, legal notices, letters, petition, specifications; regarding the appointment of a receiver to insure
the distribution of payments due for construction of the Parsons Building, 276 Erie Street, Cleveland, Ohio; and the answer
of the Hunkin Brothers [Samuel and William] [the firm of Gregg & LaChance were the architects of the building; J. A. Reaugh
& Son, served as general contractors]; State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Court of Common Pleas #57642, 1896-1897
Box 2 / Folder 103
Radcliff & Holt vs. T. W. Swetland, correspondence, [Radcliff & Holt, "Manufacturers and Dealers in Fine Parlor Furniture
and Mattresses," Grand Rapids, Michigan, sued to collect money due], 1892-1893
Box 2 / Folder 104
Stanton, H. A., vs. General Electric Railway Co., legal notes, pertaining to Ms. Stanton's alleged injury while exiting a
streetcar onto Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1893
Box 2 / Folder 105
Wetmore, Edward, vs. Newark and Granville Electric Street Railway, Newark, Ohio; legal correspondence, records of incorporation,
and proposed route maps, regarding Wetmore's efforts to recoup his investment in the company, 1892
Series VI: Miscellany, 1888-1937; undated
Box 2 / Folder 106
Correspondence, Emma A. Taft to unidentified recipient; and Elizabeth N. P. to Mrs. Howe, 1888
Box 2 / Folder 107
Correspondence, undated
Box 2 / Folder 108
Exams, Doris A. Jackman; secretarial test and rapid calculation test, undated
Box 2 / Folder 109
Form letter, Spanish language, 1920
Box 2 / Folder 110
Letter, D(urwood) A. Bowers to Miss Doris Jackman; and typed list of names including Mr. Durwood Bowers, 1932
Box 2 / Folder 111
Newspaper clippings, "The War Canker in Preparedness," letter to the editor of the New York Times, by Washington Gladden,
reprinted in an unidentified source; "Lincoln's Reliance on Prayer," by Albert F. Gallatin; assorted poems, photocopies, 1915
Box 2 / Folder 112
Notes, medicinal remedies, undated; handwritten lines in dialect (from a play?), undated
Box 2 / Folder 113
Notice, Law Offices of E. Dean Fuller, Mexico City, Mexico, undated
Series VII: Artwork, 1870-1930
Box 2 / Folder 114
Drawing, pastel, portrait, individual, James Abram Garfield, by W. H. Robinson (original stored in Oversize Folder 3, Folder
136), 1880
Box 2 / Folder 115
Drawing, pen and ink, birds and a feather, George W. Tuttle, Cleveland (original stored in Oversize Folder 5, Folder 138), 1880
Box 2 / Folder 116
Drawing, pen and ink, political cartoon, 1870 election, "The General from Illinois on his celebrated Charger 'Greenback'", 1870
Box 2 / Folder 117
Lithograph, black & white, political cartoon, typed caption: "Even as President-elect, Garfield was Overwhelmed by Petitioners", 1880-1881
Box 2 / Folder 118
Lithograph, color, birthday, James A. Garfield, "Ohio-Birthday reception by students of the Lake Erie Seminary at Painesville
to President-Elect Garfield", 1880
Box 2 / Folder 119
Lithograph, color, Lawnfield, "Mentor: Home of Garfield" (original stored in Oversize Folder 7, Folder 142, 1880
Box 2 / Folder 120
Lithograph, color, portrait, group, "President Garfield and Cabinet", 1881
Box 2 / Folder 121
Lithograph, color, portrait, individual, "Garfield: Patriot, Statesman, Martyr" (original housed in Oversize Folder 10, Folder
145), 1881
Box 2 / Folder 122
Lithograph, four color, funeral train, James Abram Garfield, "C. & P. R. R. Station, Euclid and Wilson Avenues, Cleveland,
Ohio. September 26th, 1881. Delegation attending the arrival of the remains of President Garfield" (original stored in Oversize
Folder 8, Folder 143), 1881
Box 2 / Folder 123
Lithographs, black & white, assassination, James Abram Garfield, three photostats from Harper's Weekly, 1881
Box 2 / Folder 124
Lithographs, black & white, portrait, individual, "James A. Garfield. Republican Candidate for Twentieth President of the
United States. Presented by the Toledo Blade" (original stored in Oversize Folder 1, Folder 134); and "General James Abram
Garfield K[nights] T[emplar] 14? A[ncient] & A[ccepted] S[cottish] R[ite] Late President U. S. A." (original stored in Oversize
Folder 2, Folder 135), 1880
Box 2 / Folder 125
Lithographs, black & white, portrait, group, [Garfield family]; "J. A. Garfield and Family"; "J. A. Garfield and Family"
(originals stored in Oversize Folder 6, Folder 141), 1881-1882
Box 2 / Folder 126
Lithographs, color, "Ohio-Homelife of the Republican Candidate for President"; "Ohio-The Busy Life of A President-Elect";
"Home of James A. Garfield, Mentor, O."; "Lawnfield, Mentor, Ohio. The Home of Garfield" (originals housed in Oversize Folder
7, Folder 142), 1880-1881
Box 2 / Folder 127
Lithographs, color, political cartoons, 1880 presidential election, from Puck, "A Weak Ticket in the Field-And a Weaker Expected"
(original housed in Container 3, Folder 131); "Where Both Platforms Agree-No Vote-No Use to Either Party" (original housed
in Container 3, Folder 132; "The Republican Presidential Candidate Now on View"; "It Makes Him Sick," (originals housed in
Container 3, Folder 133, Oversize Materials); "The Political Handicap-Who will Ride the Democratic Entry?"; "The Appomattox
of the Third Termers-Unconditional Surrender" (originals housed in Oversize Folder 5, Folder 139); "Forbidding the Banns";
"Just the Difference"; and "The Army-Worm" (originals stored in Oversize Folder 5, Folder 140), 1880
Box 2 / Folder 128
Paintings, watercolors, seascape, "3 White, 1 Red, All's Well At Gay Head"; landscape, "The House of The Crab"; landscape,
"Nice"; and, landscape, unidentified, 1930
Series VIII: Oversize Materials, 1859-1990