James Abraham Garfield
...as an illegal alien from France. Before Garfield was born, his parents moved to Ohio in the wilderness. Garfield’s Father died before he could’ve turned two. When Garfield was three, he started to go to school along with his sister. It was difficult to go to the school since it was a six-mile walk to it. The only way he could go to school and close to home was that he had to offer some land to build a new school. As soon as he turned ten, he started to work with his mother in the fields of his neighbors. Most kids would think that child labor was torture but James however, thought that it was fun and full of laughter. Most of his school years were when he was a teenager. His mother convinced him to go to Geauga Academy in Chester. After he finished that school. He went to the Hiram Eclectic Institute. Garfield was a real schoolboy. As soon as he graduated from the Institute, he became a professor and teacher of both Greek and Latin. One of his talents when he was a teacher was that he could write in Greek and Latin at the same time with both hands. Before becoming a teacher, he was a carpenter to pay for the college. James was such a hard worker, he taught at about three different 2 schools in three different states. On the way, he met Chester A. Arthur. When he went back to his old school, he worked for Hiram College again and became the president of the whole school. When the Civil War came, he wanted to join and he was accepted. After the battle, he was made General of the Army. Most of his time as a general was protecting President Abraham Lincoln. He was a great general so Lincoln made him a brigadier general. Garfield had many jobs. He was a farmer as a child, a carpenter as a teen, and a teacher, lawyer, a preacher, and a legislator as an adult before he became the United States’ president. Garfield’s personal life also involved his school life. He met Lucretia Rudolph when he was at the Institute. Lucretia Rudolph was Garfield’s future wife. They got married on November 11, 1858; eight days before his twenty-seventh birthday. They had seven children together but sadly, two of them died. The names were Trot, the firstborn who died before of age three and another son, Edward, Garfield’s lastborn died of whooping cough. They lived in a log cabin in Ohio. When James got elected as the president, he had to move around without ever seeing his family. In order to be with his family, he moved and bought a new house in Washington. Instead of letting someone buy his old house, he instead chose to keep it and live in it 3 whenever he wanted to go back. Being a president wasn’t the only job that Garfield had that involved the government. Before being a president, Garfield was a state senator, a major general in the National Army, and a representative elect to the National Congress. The state that elected Garfield to be a U.S. senator was his birth country: Ohio in 1880. He was elected for Congress ...