Stone memorializing James A. Garfield
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Garfield, James A.
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Stone memorializing James A. Garfield
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The “Walk of Fame” was created in 1929 by then-president Hamilton Holt to honor significant historical figures. James A. Garfield was honored with a stone in the Walk of Fame which is located around Mills lawn of Rollins College.
James A. Garfield was a Union general in the Civil War and eventually became the 20th president of the United States. However his presidency was cut short when he was assassinated 200 days into his tenure. Garfield was notably supportive of African Americans soldiers joining the Civil War effort and did not believe it would lead to a race insurrection. He was also very consistent in his support for African American suffrage. He supported laws that would elevate the status of African Americans in society including the extension of the Freedmen's bureau, The Civil Rights Act, and the Ku Klux Klan Act. In one of his major speeches on his campaign, he addressed 50,000 people in New York City where he convinced people to support African Americans and pointed out that “you never saw a traitor under a black skin.” He believed that everyone should be able to have the same destiny in America regardless of their race.
The stone memorializing Garfield in the Walk of Fame was taken from his birthplace in Chagrin Falls, Ohio only 100 yards from the site of the log cabin. Based on Hamilton Holt's book on the Walk of Fame and the book The Walk of Fame: A Path of Many Memories, we can determine that his stone was placed between 1933 and 1939.
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This is a rectangular stone, 17.5”x9.5.” The stone itself is weathered, and the letters have become hard to discern.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD
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OHIO
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Holt, Hamilton
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1939
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