Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-10-22
THE GARFIELD FAMILY.
The Rensoddted Home at Meator-henen-
toes of the Dead.

MENTOR, o., Sept. 1S.-To-morrow
will be sad Sunday in the Garfield
home. It will be the fifth anniversary
of the presidents death, and the day
is always kept sacred to his memory.
In five years there have been many
changes in the Garfield family. There
have been no deaths, but the children
of whom the father was SO fond have
grown up. The two older boys have
just begun a course in the Columbia
College Law school, and Harry, the
elder, has been teaching in some east
ern school. Both are graduates of
Williams college. James R. Garfield
has been studying law with Judge
Boyton in Cleveland and is looked up
on by friends of his father as the son
most like him in every way. He has
his fathers size, complexion, eyes and
manner. Both sons are now men, and
have, it is said, great ambition. Miss
Mollie the only daughter, is now
young woman taller than her mother,
and has about finished her studies.
The two younger sons, Abram and
Irwin-the latter named for Gen.
Irwin McDowell-are old enough to
enter school on the Hudson, and left
alone for their duties there last week.
They have never been away from home
alone before, and were proud to 60
forth as they did. Mrs. Garfeld's fam
lily circle is therefore not large, with her
four boys all away.
Since the preliminary education Of
Abram and Irwin in the Cleveland
public schools the mother has had nc
further desire to live in city. She
had ordered her mansion in Cleveland
sold and has decided to make her
future home at Mentor. She has
here added to the modest frame house
of her husband palatial @Queen
Anne" structure which cost $50, 900
1t is the most imposing home in the
county, although the new part is be
hind and wholly subservient to the
old house in which the president lived
There still remains the head and front
of the Garfield home, although remod
eIed to conform with the addition.
A $4,000 addition to $1,000 house
is curiosity in modern architec ture
but sentiment fer the past and its illus
trious dead inspired it. There are
probably sixty rooms in both old and
new houses. They are all furnished
in modern style, and with considerable
elegance, and there is an air of aristo
cracy about the interior which Gar
| field in his life did not know in hi
own home. Although the house i
far in the country, it has all the con
veniences Of a city home, in plumbing
gas-fitting and steam-heating. A nat
| ural gas well has been bored on tn
farm, and the yard is kept lighted da,
and night. The main entrance i
through the old house. In the hal
facing the door is "Grandma" Garfield
old wall-sweep clock, which her hus
band brought home sixty years age
1t is still the STANDARD time" of tn
house, and keeps on ticking just as
. did when the president was born. T
The left is the smoking room, which
a lounging-room for the family, JAIME
being the only one who smokes. 7
the right is the old parlor, now a n
ception room, and rich in the relics {
the dead. It was once his stud,
Bibles and other books are upon ii
tables, and the furniture is much Il
same as when the family left fc
Washington.
e. To the left is modest little roo
occupied by the aged sGrandmsn Ga
field. Everybody calls her "Grandma
She is So, but vigorous old lady ye
who reads her bible every day, an
rides about the country to visit b
relatives of three different generation
Her room is modestly but richly fu
nished, and the face Of her son loo
upon her from every side. A han
+ some FIRE screen with 4 Transparent
of the dead stands before the heart
A half-dozen other portraits of hi
J! hang where the eye meets them