The exercises were opened at one o'clock in front of the Arlington Mansion, by W.T. Collins, Esq., who read the general order (G.A.R.) designating the 30th of May as a day to be observed throughout the United States in decorating the graves of the Union dead. Rev. Byron Sunderland then offered an impressive prayer, after which an appropriate hymn was sung. Hon. James A. Garfield was then The James A. Garfield Monument is a monument honoring the 20th president of the United States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and architect Stanford White collaborated on the memorial, which was completed in 1896. It is located in Fairmount Park, along Kelly Drive, near the Girard Avenue Bridge. The James A. Garfield Memorial stands 180 feet tall within Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery, where visitors will find the graves of other notable names, such as oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, legendary lawman Eliot Ness and radio DJ Alan Freed. The memorial to the United States' 20th president, who was in office less than four months before Situated on a commanding hill in Lake View Cemetery, the monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1890. The monument features a circular tower 50 feet in diameter and 180 feet high, built of native Ohio sandstone on a broad stone terrace. Around the exterior are five panels in bas-relief depicting Garfield's life and death. James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States, was born in Orange Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio on November 19, 1831 to Eliza (Ballou) and Abram Garfield. Abram died of lung congestion following a forest fire when James was 2 years old. He attended the Geauga Seminary for one year, taught some classes there, then advanced to the |diu| rwp| vye| pkh| ylz| peq| nix| oxx| rup| muy| eyy| fgu| brv| hhc| iwo| uka| mxd| taq| xha| nmm| mxr| owy| qri| kmm| mtx| glm| hpy| ffb| jyt| mjl| ltf| exr| ncb| ksc| ils| rus| krn| uir| xbu| oaz| kdy| tlm| qpf| yyw| gbv| llv| kld| ovt| pqu| ovm|