On this President’s Day we share certain aspects in the life of President James Garfield
OnJuly 2nd 1881 James Ephraim Garfield was shot in a Washington train station by would-be assassin. The lead bullet that tore through the president's back on that summer morning, did not kill him. Instead, it plunged Garfield, his family, and the entire nation into a nightmare that seemed impossible to believe it was tragically real.
Although born into abject poverty, Garfield's life was marked from the start with astonishing achievement. Named a professor of literature and ancient languages as a college sophomore, he was a college president by age 26. While in Congress, he wrote an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem. A fierce abolitionist Garfield was hailed a hero during the Civil War and after was a passionate advocate for the rights of freed slaves.
