Memorial Address on the Life and Character of James Abram Garfield: Delivered Before Both Houses of Congress, at Their Request, in the Hall of the House of Representatives (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memorial Address on the Life and Character of James Abram Garfield: Delivered Before Both Houses of Congress, at Their Request, in the Hall of the House of Representatives

It did not hap en to me to be born in a log cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were born n a lo cabin raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire at a period so early that w on the smoke rose first from its rude chimney and our ed over the frozen hills there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its remains still exist.

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