Lucretia Garfield was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
28 Facts About Lucretia Garfield
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Highly educated and intellectually curious, Lucretia Garfield was well attuned to the internal machinations of the Republican Party, which proved to be of great aid to her husband's political career.
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Lucretia Garfield was well regarded during her brief period in the White House, but after only a few months contracted malaria and went to Long Branch, New Jersey, to recuperate.
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In July 1881, James Lucretia Garfield was shot and mortally wounded by Charles Guiteau.
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Lucretia Garfield lingered for two and a half months before dying, during which his wife stayed at his bedside and received much public sympathy.
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Lucretia Garfield returned to her former residence in Ohio after being widowed, living in what is the James A Garfield National Historic Site.
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Lucretia Garfield spent much of the rest of her life preserving her husband's papers and other materials, establishing what was effectively the first presidential library.
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Lucretia Garfield "Crete" Rudolph was a devout member of the Churches of Christ.
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Lucretia Garfield's ancestry includes German, Welsh, English and Irish; Lucretia Garfield's paternal great-grandfather immigrated to Pennsylvania from Wurttemberg, Germany.
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The Institute believed in the education of women and because of this Lucretia Garfield became an educated woman of her time.
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Lucretia Garfield studied all of the classics, and learned to speak Greek, Latin, French, and German.
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Lucretia Garfield graduated from Hiram College and then became a teacher.
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Lucretia Garfield first met James Garfield in 1849 while she was attending school at Hiram College where James was her teacher in Chester, Ohio.
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Lucretia Garfield then went to Williams College while she stayed behind to begin teaching in Cleveland, Ohio and Bryan, Ohio.
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Lucretia Garfield was attracted to her keen intellect and appetite for knowledge.
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Lucretia Garfield kept up her studies and her teaching, determined to have something to fall back on if ever she found herself unmarried.
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Lucretia Garfield didn't want to have to depend on her father to support her, so she earned her own salary.
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Lucretia Garfield went to the Library of Congress to research the history of the White House.
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Lucretia Garfield's intent was not to restore the White House, but to "[bring] a sense of history" to it.
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Lucretia Garfield feels as if there are ghosts in the White House because of all of the history it had seen in the eighty years it had been standing.
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Lucretia Garfield was thrown from her seat, but not injured.
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One of the doctors hired to take care of President Lucretia Garfield was a woman, Dr Susan Edson.
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Lucretia Garfield created a wing to the home that became a presidential library of his papers.
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Lucretia Garfield lived comfortably on a $350,000 trust fund raised for her and the Garfield children by financier Cyrus W Field.
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Lucretia Garfield spent winters in South Pasadena, California, where she built a home she helped design with the celebrated architects Greene and Greene, to whom she was distantly related.
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Lucretia Garfield went to events Theodore Roosevelt held in support of him.
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Lucretia Garfield died at her South Pasadena home on March 14,1918, at the age of 85.
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Lucretia Garfield's casket was placed above ground beside the coffin of her husband in the lower level crypt of the James A Garfield Memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.