Memento of Garfield

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Memento of Garfield.

SOME time ago Mrs. Garfield gave Ex-President Hayes a memento of her husband, which is kept with zealous care in Hayes's Fremont house. It is a small brass calendar, with the months, days, and years on little cylinders, to be turned as time goes on. This was always on Garfield's desk, and he used it for years in his Washington library. He took it to the White House, and made it a rule to turn it each morning, thus reminding himself of the right date before beginning the day's work. On the morning of July 3, he turned the cylinder and finished some business before going to his death at the depot. The little calendar was never regulated from that day, and remains now as he left it on that fatal morning, marking "Saturday, July 3, 1881."—Chicago Times.