From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield
by Horatio Alger, Jr.
Author Of Ragged Dick; Luck And Pluck; Tattered Tom, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK
AMERICAN PUBLISHERS CORPORATION
310-318 SIXTH AVENUE
1881
James A Garfield, at the Age of 16. Copied by permission of J.F. RYDER, Cleveland, G.
Harry And James Garfield
Whose Private Sorrow Is The Public Grief, This Memorial Of Their Illustrious Father Is Inscribed With The Warmest Sympathy.
The present series of volumes has been undertaken with the view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration. The writings of Charles Dickens have been selected as the basis of the scheme, on account of the well-known excellence of his portrayal of children, and the interests connected with children—qualities which have given his volumes their strongest hold on the hearts of parents. These delineations having thus received the approval of readers of mature age, it seemed a worthy effort to make the young also participants in the enjoyment of these classic fictions, to introduce the children of real life to these beautiful children of the imagination.
With this view, the career of Little Nell and her Grandfather, Oliver, Little Paul, Florence Dombey, Smike, and the Child-Wife, have been detached from the large mass of matter with which they were originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public. We have brought down these famous stories from the library to the nursery—the parlor table to the child's hands—having a precedent for the proceeding, if one be needed, in the somewhat similar work, the Tales from Shakespeare, by one of the choicest of English authors and most reverential of scholars, Charles Lamb.
Jr. Horatio Alger
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General Preface.
Preface.
Contents
The Boyhood And Manhood Of James A. Garfield.
Chapter I.—The First Pair Of Shoes.
Chapter II—Growing In Wisdom And Stature.
Chapter III—In Quest Of Fortune.
Chapter IV—On The Tow-Path.
Chapter V—An Important Conversation.
Chapter VI—James Leaves The Canal.
Chapter VII—The Choice Of A Vocation
Chapter VIII—Geauga Seminary.
Chapter IX—Ways And Means.
Chapter X—A Cousin's Reminiscences.
Chapter XI—Ledge Hill School
Chapter XII—Who Shall Be Master?
Chapter XIII—Ames Leaves Geauga Seminary
Chapter XIV—At Hiram Institute.
Chapter XV—Three Busy Years.
Chapter XVI—Entering Williams College.
Chapter XVII—Life In College.
Chapter XVIII—The Canal-Boy Becomes A College President.
Chapter XIX—Garfield As A College President.
Chapter XX—Garfield Becomes A State Senator.
Chapter XXI—A Difficult Duty.
Chapter XXII—John Jordan's Dangerous Journey.
Chapter XXIII—Garfield's Bold Strategy.
Chapter XXIV—The Battle Of Middle Creek.
Chapter XXV—The Perilous Trip Up The Big Sandy.
Chapter XXVI—The Canal-Boy Becomes A Congressman.
Chapter XXVII—Garfield's Course In Congress.
Chapter XXVIII—The Man For The Hour.
Chapter XXIX—Garfield As A Lawyer.
Chapter XXX—The Scholar In Politics.
Chapter XXXI—The Tributes Of Friends.
Chapter XXXII—From Canal-Boy To President.
Chapter XXXIII—The New Administration.
Chapter XXXIV—The Tragic End.
Chapter XXXV—Mr. Depew's Estimate Of Garfield.
Chapter XXXVI—The Lessons Of His Life.
Notes