True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 226
ed. THE EVENTFUL LIFE OF James A. Garfield, The Boy on the Canal Boat. The Second flartyr President. WOULD younot like tohear the storyof another boy whobegan life almost if notquite as poor as Abra-ham Lincoln, and wasa great and good man,and was the secondmartyr President of theUnited States?… … PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD 227 228 JAMES A. GARFIELD selfish. Abraham Lincoln was the first President of the Uni-ted States who was a martyr. You remember reading his in-teresting story. We will now tell you the life-story of anotherfarmer boy, who by hard work became one of the greatest menin the…
