Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-29

sect at Hiram, Portage county, near his
boyhoods home. He became professor
of Latin and Greek, and threw himself
with the energy and industry which
were leading traits of his character into
the work Of building up the institution.
Before he had been two years in his
professorship he was appointed presi-
dent OF the college. Hiram is a lone
some country village, three miles from
a railroad, built upon high hill over
looking twenty miles Of cheesemaking
country to the southwark. 1t contains
iifty or sixty houses clustered around
the green, in the center of which stands
the homely red brick college structure.
Plain living and high thinking was the
order Of things at Hiram college in
those days. The teachers were poor.
the children were poor, and the insti-
tuition was poor, but there was a great
deal Of hard, faithful duty done, and
many ambitious plans formed. The
young president taught, lectured and
preached, and all the time studied as
diligently rs any acolyte in the temple
of knowledge. lie frequently spoke
on Sundays in the churches of the
towns in the vicinity to create an in
terest IN the college. Among the dis
ciples any one can preach who has a
mind to, no ordination being required.
From these Sunday discourses came
the story that Garfield at one time was
a minister. He never considered him
self such and never had any intention
OF finding n career in the pulpit. His
ambition, If he had any outside of tine
school lay in the direction Of law and
politics
IIIs MARRIAGE.
During his professorship, Garfield
married Mss Lucretia Rudolph, daugh-
ter of a farmer in the neighborhood,
whose acquaintance he had made while
at the academy where she was also a
pupil. She was a quiet, thoughtful
girl, of singularly sweet and refined
disposition, fond of study and reading,
possessing warm heart and a mind
with the capacity of steady growth.
The marriage was love affair on both
sides and has been thoroughly happy
one. Much of General Gariield's SUBJ
sequent success in life may be attri.
buted to the never failing sympathy
and intellectual companiOnship of his
wife, and the stimulus of a loving
home circle. The young couple bought
a neat little cottage fronting on the
college campus and began their wed.
ded life poor and in debt, but with
brave hearts.
In 1860 the college president was
elected to the state senate from the
counties of Portage and Summit. He
did not resign his presidency, because
he looked upon few months IN the
legislature rs an episode not likely tC
change the course of his life. But the
war came TO alter his plans. Durine
the war of 1861 he was active in The
passage Of measures for arming the
state MALTA, and his elOquence and
energy made him a conspicuous leader
sf the party. Early in the summer OF
1861 he was eiected colonel of an in.
fantry regiment (the forty-second) rails
ed in northern Ohio, many of the SOL
diers IN which had been students at
Hiram. He took the field in eastern
Kentucky, was soon put in command
OF brigade, and 10y making one OF the
hardest marches ever made by recruits,
surprised and routed the rebel forces
under Humphrey Marshall, at Piketon.
From Easton, Kentucky, he was
transferred to Louisville and from that
place hastened 10 join .he army OF
General Buell.. which he reached
with his brigade in time to participate
in the second days fighting mt Pitts
burg Landing. lie took part i'm the
seige at COrinth and in the operation:
along the Memphis and Charleston rail
road. In January. 1868, he was ap
pointed chief of staff of the Army
of the Cumberland and bore promi
nent share in all the campaigns il
middle Tennessee in the spring anC
summer of that year. His last con
spicuous military service was at tn,
battle of Chickamauga. For his con
duct in that battle he was promoted L
major generalship. 1t is said that III
wrote all the orders given TO the arm,
that day, and submitted them to Gen
eral R0secrans for approval. save one
The one that he did not write was tn,
fatal order to General Wood. whicl
was so worded as not to correctly en-
vey the meaning of the commanding
general, and which caused the destruc
tion of the right wing of the army.
ELECTED TO CONGRESS.
The congressional district in which
Garfield lived was the one long mad,
famous by Joshua II. Giddings. Tn,
old anti-slavery champion grew care
less Of the arts of politics toward tn,
end of his career, and came TO look up
on nomination and reelection as
matter of course. His overconfidenc,
was taken advantage of in 1858 by al
ambitious lawyer named Hutchins, t
carry a convention against him. Th
friends Of Giddings never forgav
Hutchins, and cast about for means o
defeating him. The old man himsel
was comfortably quartered in his con
sulate at Montreal and did not care I,
make fight To get back to congress
So his supporters made use of the popu
larity of General Garfield and nominal
ed BIN while he was in the field with
out asking his consent. That was il
1862. When he heard of the nomina
ton Garfield reflected that it would b
llteen months before the congres:
would meet TO which he would b,
elected, and believing, as did every on,
else, that the war could not poSsibl!
last year longer. concluded to acceLs
lie continued his military service up q
the time congress met.
On entering congress, in Decembe.
1868 Generl Garfield was placed on thu
committee on military affairs, will
Schenck and FarnswOrth. who were
also fresh from the field. lie also tool
an active psr in the debates OF The
house, and won recognition which
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