Lock of hair from James A. Garfield
name: label: Associated Name
content: Garfield, James A.
notes: label: Description
content: On September 20, 1881, the day after Garfield’s death, his friend Colonel Almon Rockwell, who had been at his bedside since he was shot 80 days before, cut a lock of his hair as a token of remembrance. In 1884 Rockwell donated this personal souvenir to the national collection. Rockwell was at both Garfield and Abraham Lincoln's bedsides when they died from assassins bullets.
label: Description
content: The hair was placed on a card with samples of hair from Franklin Pierce and Rutherford B. Hayes at an unknown date after their arrival at the museum.
topic: label: general subject association
content: National Symbols
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.075012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hair