Near Death Experience James Garfield almost died of malaria he contracted ... almost died from malaria while living in the White House. Italian for "bad air", malaria's method of transmission ...

In the 1960s, one of Mollie's children wrote a children's book based on her mother's diary entries, titled "Mollie Garfield in the White House." Although the children of James and Lucretia ...

A year after the national centennial, a long-time member of the House of Representatives and future president of the United States reflected on the development of the American legislature.

James Abram Garfield was also a born-again Christian, saved at age 18, and was an elder in his church when elected president. He said, before leaving for Washington: “I resign the highest office ...

On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James Garfield at the ... of New York’s custom house. GOP leaders had put ...