Excerpt from The Poets' Tributes to Garfield: The Collection of Poems Written for the Boston Daily Globe, and Many Selections; With Portrait and Biography James Abram Garfield, the deceased President of the United States, was born in the little town of Orange, Ohio, Nov. 19, 1831, and came from New-England stock. On the paternal side his ancestry runs back to Edward Garfield, who in 1635 was recorded as one of the proprietors of what is now the town of Watertown, Mass. His mother was a descendant of one of those Huguenots whom the famous "Edict of Nantes" drove from their beloved France to seek religions freedom in the New World. From the Garfields he inherited physical and moral strength; while from his mother he received that intellectual vigor and those fine mental qualities which have marked in many generations the descendants of Maturin Ballou. President Garfield's birthplace was a log-cabin, in a wilderness some fifteen miles from that modest home which he left in order to take up his residence at the white House. He was the youngest of four children, who were left fatherless eighteen months after his birth. The widowed mother held her homestead farm, and her children together upon it. Thomas, the oldest, and the only other buy, was a manly little fellow, and did what he could to help, while the sisters also made themselves useful n the household. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.