After President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound in 1881, his admirers set out to built a sandstone tower, now blackened with age, that rises above the trees of Lake View Cemetery.

But James Garfield, before being elected president ... The wedding took place in the Memorial Library that Lucretia had built to preserve her husband's legacy at the family home in Mentor ...

James A. Garfield National Historic Site has scheduled ... His widow, Lucretia, eventually added a Memorial Library to the Mentor home that is now considered the birthplace of presidential libraries.