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  <titleInfo>
    <title>James A. Garfield papers, 1775-1889 (bulk 1850-1881)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Garfield, James A. (James Abram)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1831-1881</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>462 26</extent>
    <extent>177</extent>
    <extent>117.6</extent>
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  <abstract>Family, personal, and official correspondence including records of Garfield's Civil War military service, diary (1848-1881), speeches and other public statements, legal papers, genealogical material, college notebooks, tributes, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other material relating primarily to Garfield's career and death.  Subjects include Ohio and national politics, the disputed election of 1876, tariff and national finance, Credit Mobilier of America, and the Fitz-John Porter court-martial.  Other topics include education, Hiram College, the Disciples of Christ, and the Salish (Flathead) Indians.  Also includes diaries, account book, and other papers (1881-1889) of Garfield's daughter, Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown ("Mollie").  Correspondents include  Chester Alan Arthur, Harmon Austin, Jeremiah S. Black, J. M. Bundy, Alexander Campbell, William E. Chandler, Julius Orrin Converse, Jacob D. Cox, John Jay Curtis, Madeleine V. Dahlgren, Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Hopkins, William Dean Howells, Robert Green Ingersoll, Francis Lieber, Thomas M. Nichol, Thomas Wharton Phillips, Albert M. Pratt, Whitelaw Reid, James H. Rhodes, A. G. Riddle, James S. Robinson, John P. Robison, William S. Rosecrans, John Sherman, Platt Rogers Spencer, and Samuel Ward.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,111.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1974.</note>
  <note>U.S. president, army officer, lawyer, and educator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008147">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008147</note>
  <note>Index published by the Library of Congress in 1973 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.  Cataloged in record 73009594.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Arthur, Chester Alan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1886</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Austin, Harmon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Black, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Sullivan)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bundy, J. M. (Jonas Mills)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Campbell, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1788-1866</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chandler, William E. (William Eaton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Converse, Julius Orrin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cox, Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1900</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Curtis, John Jay</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garfield, James A. (James Abram)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Assassination</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hopkins, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1887</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howells, William Cooper</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1894</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howells, William Dean</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1920</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ingersoll, Robert Green</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lieber, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nichol, Thomas M</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Porter, Fitz-John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1901</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pratt, Albert M</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Phillips, Thomas Wharton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reid, Whitelaw</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rhodes, James H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robinson, James S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robison, John P</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sherman, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1900</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Spencer, Platt R. 1800-1864</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">(Platt Rogers)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ward, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1884</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Credit Mobilier of America.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Hiram College.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts-martial and courts of inquiry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Disciples of Christ</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Education</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Finance, Public</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1875-1901</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1876</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Salish Indians</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Tariff</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1881-1885</temporal>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Presidents</occupation>
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      <title>Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1947</namePart>
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