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Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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a, Sept. 19, Gar-field volunteered to take the news ofthe defeat on the right to Gen. Geo.H. Thomas, who held the left of theline. It was a bold ride, under con-stant fire ; but he reached Thomas andgave the information that saved theArmy of the Cumberland. For thiswas made major-general. Dec. 3, re-signs from the army to take seat inCongress, to which he had been electedfifteen months previously. 1864. Jan. 14, delivers first speech in Con-gress. Placed on Committee on Mili-tary Affairs. 1865. J an. ) 3, discusses constitutional amend-ment to abolish slavery. Changedfrom Committee on Military Affairs toWays and Means Committee. April 15, delivers from the balconyof the New York Custom House, to amob frenzied by the news of PresidentLincolns death, the following speech : Fellow-citizens: Clouds and dark-ness are around him; Ms pavilion isdarh tvaters and thick clouds: justiceand judgment are the establishment ofhis throne; mercy and truth shall gobefore his face! Felloio-citizens: God
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Barnard, Photo., 1887. Garfields Study at Lawnfield.The room and its objects are just as left by him when last there. LAKE COUNTY, 299 reigns, and the Government at Wash-ington lives / 1866. In March made his first speech onpublic debt, foreshadowing resumptionof specie payments. 1867. Made Chairman of Committee on Mil-itary Affairs. 1869-71. Chairman of new committee ofForty-first Congress on Banking andCurrency. 1871-75. Forty-second and Forty-third Con-gresses, Chairman of Committee onAppropriations. 1875. Member of Ways and Means Com-mittee. (House Democratic, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-sixthCongresses.) 1877. Chosen member of Presidential Elec-toral Commission. 1880. January 13, elected to United States Senate. April 23, delivers last speechin House of Representatives. June 8,nominated for the presidency. Nov.2, elected President. 1881. March 23, nominates William H. Rob-ertson to be Collector of the Port ofNew York. May 5, withdraws allNew York nominations. May 16,Senat

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