As 19 news gets ready to celebrate our country’s 250-th birthday next year. We’re profiling people and places that are the ...

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier; By C.W. Goodyear; Simon and Schuster; 624 pp., $35.00 The author breaks Garfield’s life into four parts: his childhood in Ohio, the Civil War ...

James Garfield became the 20th President of the United States on March 4, 1881. His mother Eliza, who gave him $17, her life savings, to go to school in 1848, ...

The assassination of President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington D.C., America on July 2, 1881, by Charles Julius Guiteau.

General Garfield is eminently a practical politician, and we need not fear that he will make a visionary administration, reaching out after the impossible, or trying to take ten steps at once.

Of Ohio’s several presidents, James A. Garfield used to be the one I knew the least about. But I know a lot more after reading “An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century ...

While the historical presence of James A. Garfield in Northeast Ohio, particularly Lake County, remains recognizable, the spirit of the 20th president of the United States continues to gain evolvin… ...

President James A. Garfield was not from Cincinnati. He was from Ohio, though – born in the former Orange Township in Cuyahoga County in 1831. Yet, he has a statue in Piatt Park (formerly ...

Of Ohio’s several presidents, James A. Garfield used to be the one I knew the least about. But I know a lot more after reading “An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century ...

C.W. Goodyear, who came out with a biography on James Garfield last year, is scheduled to speak at the national historic site in Mentor. Garfield was the 20th U.S. president.