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James A. Garfield: Williams College
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After completing his studies at the local school in Orange, Garfield enrolled at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College), at Hiram, Ohio. He eventually went on to Williams College, in Massachusetts. After graduating from Williams with the class of 1856, he returned to the institute at Hiram and assumed the duties of teacher and later principal. On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph, his childhood friend, fellow student, and pupil.
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Garfield's writings were edited in 2 vols. by his friend Burke A. Hinsdale as The Works of James Abram Garfield (1883; reprint, Bks. for Libs. Press 1970). The Diary of James A. Garfield was edited in 4 vols. by Harry James Brown and Frederick D. Williams (Mich.
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Conversion, at age 18, to the Disciples of Christ gave young Garfield a sense of self-worth; education, especially in classical languages, gave him his first vocation. In 1851 he entered the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (now Hiram College), and three years later he enrolled at Williams College in Massachusetts, receiving his A.B. in 1856.
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Though confirmation battles consumed a majority of Garfield's time, he ... carried out other presidential duties and commitments. On July 2, 1881, he was en route to a speaking engagement at his alma mater Williams College, when lawyer Charles J. Guiteau shot him at a Washington, D.C., railroad station. Described as an erratic character, Guiteau shouted to a crowd at the railroad station that he was a Stalwart.
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