Excerpt from Garfield's Career: From the Tow-Path to the White House, His Seventy-Nine Days' Struggle for Life, and the Public ObsequiesThe father worked hard. Early and late, to clear his land, and plant and gather his crops. No man in all the region around could wield an axe like him. Fenced fields soon took the place of the forest, an orchard was planted. A barn built, and the family was full of hope for the future, when death removed its strong support. One day in May, 1833, a fire broke out in the woods, and Abram Garfield, after heating his blonl and exerting his strength to keep the ¿ames from his fences and fields, sat down 1 l rcsl where a Cold wind blew, and was seized with a violent sore throat. A country doctor put a blis ter on his neck, which seemed only to hasten his death. Just before he died, pointing to his children, he said to his wife: Eliza. L have planted four saplings in these woods. I leave them to your care. He was buried in a corner of a wheat-held on his farm. James, the baby, was eighteen months old at the time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.