Front matter

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MRS. JAMES A. GARFIELD. Eng^d by H B Hall & Sons New York.

MEMORIAL EDITION.

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 MANHOOD; 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.

1881.

COPYRIGHTED, 1881, BY J. T. JONES.

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