ors i have done. It gives me a pleasant aug von, ad revive old memories." ce stude: 13° and thus Miss 16th b, making due aliowance for 1.3k upon the litde circh of teaches ... lancet her, ler the adersh of our honored and terab friend Mr layden, during the firt six years of and upon the younger group, ass i 56 uri! the breaking-out of t war. I enough experience and maturity of judgment were left to hold the school in a steady course of prosperity." VI. — GARFIELD'S LATER HIRAM LIFE. In 1861 Mr. Garfield went to the army, and in 1863 to Congress. His services as a soldier and statesman do not lie within the scope of this sketch. But Hiram continued his Ohio home until he removed to Mentor in 1877. Some phases of his later Hiram life must be here described. In November, 1858, he married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, whose mental gifts, both native and acquired, well fitted her for his wife and companion. She had been a pupil with him, both in Chester and in Hiram, as well as a pupil of his in Hiram. Now she became both his fellow-student and co-worker. His obligations to her in the wifely relation he strongly and beautifully recognized on all fitting occasions. Her great strength of character, long before known to private friends, was fully revealed to the world in the long tragedy that closed at Elberon, Sept. 19, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield's domestic life was eminently happy and beautiful. After the war Grandma Garfield, now known so pleasantly to the world as "the little white-haired mother," was generally a member of the family. They were a happy trio, a fond mother, a dutiful son and husband, a faithful daughter and wife. Both General and Mrs. Garfield were always conspicuous for private and domestic virtues, "filial affection, unbroken troth, and parental love." At first they did not set up housekeeping, but boarded. In the month of April, 1863, the General- then on a visit home from the army — purchased for eight hundred and twenty-five dollars the only home that they ever owned in Hiram, the small two-story frame house that so many friends remember. This house Mrs. Garfield refitted and enlarged in the fall of 1863, at an expense of one thousand dollars. Here they made their happy home until, in 1872, the family having outgrown it, he sold it to its present owner and occupant. Henceforth the Garfields spent more time in Washington; but whenever in Hiram, as they always were each summer until the removal to Mentor in 1877,- they made their home at father Rudolph's. Their Hiram life was perfectly simple and natural, as became their estate, their nature, and their surroundings. Save the constantly-used and ever-growing library, nothing in or about General Garfield's home stood |