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Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $6.95
Original Price: $14.95

Stock #:370622
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Mentor
State: Ohio (OH)
County: Lake
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Orange Township, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, Nov. 19th, 1831. He was graduated from Williams College in 1856. In 1858 he married Lucretia Randolph. Mentor was their home except when his official duties called him elsewhere. On July 2nd, 1881, he was shot in the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Depot at Washington, by Charles Guiteau. He lingered until Sept. 19th, when he died at Elberon, N.J., where he had been removed on Sept. 6th. Garfield's remains rest in a beautiful monument in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland

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