The flyer from dedication day of the Garfield Monument shows various people enjoying a visit to Lake View. James Garfield was born in what is now Moreland Hills, Ohio in 1831. A deranged office-seeker gunned down President Garfield in Washington D.C. only four months into his term. The President clung to life for two months after the shooting but died on September 19, 1881. His body was interred in a temporary mausoleum at Lake View Cemetery until the monument shown here was dedicated on Memorial Day 1890. The 180-foot tall Garfield Monument, designed by architect George Keller, contains the caskets of Garfield and his wife in a below-ground crypt. Five terra cotta panels on the exterior of the monument depict the stages of Garfield's life in vivid detail through the presence of 110 life-sized bas-relief figures. | Date: 1890Download Original File
