PRESIDENT GARFIELD DIES FROM ANEURYSM
Elberon, New Jersey (JFK+50) At 10:35 p.m. on September 19, 1881, President James A. Garfield passed away here in Elberon. The President died from complications of a wound he suffered in an assassination attempt in Washington almost 3 months earlier.
Mr. Garfield's wife, Lucretia, was by his side at the end. She said..."Why am I made to suffer this cruel wrong." Garfield, who was 49 years old, served as President only four months before the shooting.
According to Robert J. Donovan, the President had "begged his doctors for a chance of scene...in the desperate hope that sea air might help him." Mr. Garfield was taken by train from Washington on September 6th. On the 19th, the President awoke with a "piercing pain...caused by the breaking of the aneurysm*."
*aneurysm: an excessive localized enlargement of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall.
SOURCE
"The Assassins," by Robert J. Donovan, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1955.
Elberon, New Jersey (JFK+50) At 10:35 p.m. on September 19, 1881, President James A. Garfield passed away here in Elberon. The President died from complications of a wound he suffered in an assassination attempt in Washington almost 3 months earlier.
Mr. Garfield's wife, Lucretia, was by his side at the end. She said..."Why am I made to suffer this cruel wrong." Garfield, who was 49 years old, served as President only four months before the shooting.
According to Robert J. Donovan, the President had "begged his doctors for a chance of scene...in the desperate hope that sea air might help him." Mr. Garfield was taken by train from Washington on September 6th. On the 19th, the President awoke with a "piercing pain...caused by the breaking of the aneurysm*."
*aneurysm: an excessive localized enlargement of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall.
SOURCE
"The Assassins," by Robert J. Donovan, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1955.
President Garfield's Casket
