Interpretive Prospectus: A Plan for the Interpretation of James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Ohio
National Park Service. 1990. Interpretive Prospectus: A Plan for the Interpretation of James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Ohio. National Park Service. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This document has been prepared, through cooperation between the Western Reserve Historical Society and the National Park Service, to guide the joint efforts of the Society and the Service in developing interpretive media and programs to aid our visiting public. From them, we hope, visitors will better understand and perhaps appreciate the legacy of James Abram Garfield. He was a versatile person who incredibly squeezed so much into his life of less than five decades, including: a college professor; a linguist (wrote and spoke five languages); a college president (Western Reserve Eclectic Institute); an Ohio State Senator; an active pulpit preacher (Disciples of Christ); a Civil War Major General; an accomplished orator; the Majority Leader in the United States House of Representatives; an insatiable reader (4 to 6 books weekly most of his life); a practitioner of scientific agriculture (a gentleman farmer); a practicing attorney, and the 20th President of the United States.