MR JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 70, 11 September 1880, Page 4

MR JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Some particulars of the life of Mr Jam«s Abraham Gjarfielcj', -£o unexpectedly chosen as the Kepublican candidate for the ' Airierioah Presidency, have been published. 5.9 was born m November, .1,831, at a small Tillage called Orange, lU the nortli'fasfcerD part of Cuynohoga

country, Ohio, arillage at that time of but a ievr score inhabitants. His'parents were m too humble* a position to provide hun with anything more than' a rudii mentary educatiohi-and' at ani early age [thtv cotumeneed ,the battle . of life for i hi'nselEin.the position of a daily laborer. i AfUr, following this .pbo.upati.on. for a ti me he became a driver arid; then a boatman on the Pennsylvania and Ohio, Canal,' and m 1849, ; with the- /object of improving his educxtion, attended an aradeipy, and studied with such success tliat the following winter he undertook fclie leaching of a district school. Seven yi'jirs lator he had« made such progress that he was appointed .teacher of languages inthe Electic Jnstitute of Hiram, Oliio ; arid the following year became . president of that Institution, which offibe he held tilt 186l\ Itfthe^fieantime, m 1850j hohadJbeen ! ele'c;t(Bd '» member of Senate of ,liis, native StateVand m 1860 was arl mitted to th'e^Bar»t> An ardent supporter of the -Union, after the War of ; Secessibrifhad'CQminlerteei^hi ( Raised in/the autumn of -,1861^ the 42nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, pf .jnrhich'he was made, cojpnel,. .and despatched to Eastern Ken tiict'yV where !with f hii own regiitierifc m obrijun«tidn with the 40th O liio Regiment, he defeated iHumphrey Marshall. Mr. G-arfield {further : dis>tinguished himself, during Jthe ,war, and, was created major-general for gallant and meritorious servicei on the field of battle: : "' :i ; ' ; lj '" ■"■' V: - i ' 1 - ■''■■■" '