James Abram Garfield
(1831 - 1881)
Orange, Ohio 78665 - 78665, in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio United States 78665
Orange, Ohio 78865 - 78665, in Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia United States 30635
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In 1831, in the year that James Abram Garfield was born, on January 1st, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston Massachusetts. Published until 1865, the paper was strongly abolitionist and advocated the "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves".
In 1842, when he was merely 11 years old, Sir Richard Owen, an English paleontologist, created the name "Dinosauria", which meant "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile". It has since been Anglicized to "dinosaur".
In 1867, at the age of 36 years old, James was alive when on August 7th through September 20th, the new nation of Canada held its first Federal election. John A. Macdonald's Conservatives won the election.
In 1877, at the age of 46 years old, James was alive when on January 8th, the Battle of Wolf Mountain occurred in southern Montana Territory. Crazy Horse, Two Moon, and their warriors fought the United States Cavalry. The battle was a tactical draw and by May, Crazy Horse and his followers had surrendered at Camp Robinson.
In 1881, in the year of James Abram Garfield's passing, on March 4th, James A. Garfield became the 20th President of the United States. On July 2nd, he was shot by Charles Guiteau, a lawyer, in Washington, D.C. The wound became infected and Garfield died on September 19. Vice President Chester A. Arthur immediately became the 21st President.
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