James Garfield #2: Principal and Politician (1856-1861); Topics covered include: Teacher Hiram College, elevated to Principal, marries Lucretia ("Crete") Rudolph, debates William Denton, elected state legislature, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, difficulties in his marriage, birth of daughter Eliza ("Trot"), Bleeding Kansas, election of 1860, Southern secession, Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as President, bombardment of Fort Sumter, and the Civil War begins
Key people: Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield, Almeda Booth, Amos Hayden, Norman Dunshee, William Denton, Charles Darwin, Cyrus Prentiss, William Dennison, Salmon Chase, John Brown, Eliza ("Trot") Garfield, and Abraham Lincoln
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