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James A. Garfield NHS interprets the home of the 20th President of the United States, including the Memorial Library added to the house by his wife, Lucretia.

Mentor, Ohio
Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2010.
Rođen/a 28. prosinca

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  1. Presidents' Day is less than 2 weeks away! As you might imagine, it's one of our favorite days here! James A. Garfield NHS will be open & FREE from 11 am-3 pm on Presidents' Day (Monday, Feb. 17). Tour the Garfield home, play presidential trivia, maybe even meet some presidents!

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  2. "At 4 P.M. I went to the college, and made a short address to the students, and bade them & Hiram good-bye. It seems more final than any leave taking I have yet had."~Pres.-elect on his last visit to Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (now ), 2/4/1881.

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  3. of all those public chartered privileges granted under State laws to the citizens of the several States. For this act of plain justice we are told that ruin is again staring us in the face! If ruin comes from this, I welcome ruin."~Garfield on Civil Rights Act, 2/4/1875. 7/7

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  4. an individual man to dare to do right, and let the consequences take care of themselves, for he that loseth his life for the truth's sake shall find it. What is this bill? It is a declaration that every citizen of the United States shall be entitled to the equal enjoyment 6/7

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  5. elevate the Negro to citizenship, to give him the ballot as his weapon of self-defense, we were told the cup of destruction was filled to its brim. But, sir, I have lived long enough to learn that in the long run it is safest for a nation, a political party, or 5/7

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  6. the thirteenth amendment we were again warned that we were bring measurable calamity upon the Republic. Did it come?...Again when the fourteenth amendment was passed the same wail was heard, the wail of the fearful and unbelieving. Again when it was proposed to 4/7

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  7. and abandon our cause if we dared to make the Negro a soldier. Nevertheless the men whose love of country was greater than their prejudice against color stood firm and fought side by side with the Negro to save the Union. When we were abolishing slavery by adopting 3/7

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  8. I remember well when it was proposed to put arms in the hands of the black man to help us in the field. I remember in the Army of the Cumberland where there were twenty thousand Union men from Kentucky and Missouri and we were told that those men would throw down their arms 2/7

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  9. "The warnings uttered today are not new. During the last twelve years it has often been rung in our ears that by doing justice to the Negro we shall pull down the pillars of our political temple and bury ourselves in its ruins. 1/7

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  10. Fifteenth Amendment to US Constitution was ratified 150 years ago: Feb. 3, 1870. This last of 3 Reconstruction Amendments prohibits voting discrimination based on race. When House of Representatives voted to pass it, Rep. James A. Garfield voted in favor.

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  11. Happy ! We tip our Ranger flat hats today to Dr. Susan Edson, 1854 graduate of Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. She was Mrs. Lucretia Garfield's personal doctor and tried to assist after Pres. Garfield's shooting in 1881 but was brushed aside.

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  12. "A day nearly wasted by callers. I slept better last night [than] any night for four weeks. But nearly 20 people came."~President-elect James A. Garfield, 2/3/1881.

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  13. MUSEUM MONDAY: this is James Garfield’s favorite reading chair, designed with a high back on one side for user to lean back and put feet out on the floor or over lower side of chair. See this in Garfield’s study when you visit us & tour Garfield home!

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  14. The incredible documentary “Murder of a President” (based on ’s bestseller “Destiny of the Republic”) premiered 4 years ago: 2/2/2016. Book & film have created many new fans of President Garfield!

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  15. proslijedio/la je Tweet

    the last person to see Abraham Lincoln's body died 2/1/1963. After a 1901 tomb reconstruction Lincoln's coffin was reinterred & workers opened the lid to view his remains. 13yr old Fleetwood Lindley saw Lincoln's body as his father pulled him from school to witness the event

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  16. Who’s it gonna be tonight: San Fran or KC? There are Garfield connections to both! Photos show Garfield statue in San Fran’s Golden Gate park & city hall of Garfield, KS (a few hours west of KC, Mo). We think Garfield would pull for a 20-20 tie. (He was 20th POTUS.)

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  17. the Lincolns & Garfields both endured pain of losing young boys named Edward? “Eddie” Lincoln (photo) died 170 yrs ago yesterday on 2/1/1850. Young Edward “Neddie” Garfield died Oct. 25, 1876, just before his 2nd birthday.

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  18. February is Black History Month! This photo shows a group of African American Civil War veterans visiting James A. Garfield’s Mentor, OH home (now James A. Garfield NHS) during his 1880 “front porch” presidential campaign.

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  19. "I will never...rest satisfied until the way is opened by which these colored citizens...shall be lifted to the full rights of citizenship....so long as I have any voice or vote here, it shall aid in giving the suffrage to every citizen qualified...to exercise it."~JAG, 2/1/1866

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  20. So January 2020 is over already. That was fast! But just confirming... James A. Garfield is, like, the COOLEST. Right?

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