James A Garfield
James A. Garfield was born in Cleveland, OH, November 19,1831. He was the last president to be born in a log cabin.Garfield was 10 pounds at birth and ended up a large man when he grew up. He weighted pounds and he was 6 feet tall. In1848 he left home to work on a canal boat. Within six weeks he had to come home, because he got really sick. He decided togo back to school, to get an education. Garfield went to Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. There he studied and taught forthree years. In 1856 he graduated from Williams College. He taught English, he also was a principal, and a preacher. Garfieldwas married in 1858 to Lucretia Rudolph on November 11. They had 7 children together. In 1859 he became a lawyer and
He soon got blood poisoning from the bullet and massive infection andthe President died of heart failure. Theythought the bullet had gone into the liver and then surgery would not help him. After the Civil war started James Garfield volunteered for the Union army. OnJuly 2, 1881 Garfield was going on vacation, he was at the train station when he was about to shake hands with, a man in thecrowd named Charles J. For the next eighty days, sixteen doctors were consulted regarding the President'scondition. The first doctor Willard Bliss stuck a non-sterile finger into the wound. One hit his arm and the other lodged itselfsomewhere inside the President's body. I guesshe liked it because he carried out his plan. He followed this by probing with a non-sterileinstrument to find the bullet. He never found the bullet but made a different path into him that later confused other doctors. In 1880 he ran for president, againstWinfield S. Finally Alexander Graham Bell rigged up a metal detector to find the bullet. In the end they managed to take a 3 inch would and turn it into a twentyinch canal that was infected more and more each day.
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