Meet the Children of President and Mrs. Garfield

President James A. Garfield and his wife Lucretia had seven children; five would live into adulthood. Their first daughter Eliza Arabella, known to the family as "Little Trot," died when she was three and one-half years old. Harry, the oldest son, would become a member of the U.S. Fuel Administration for President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. James R., would become a trustee of both the Western Reserve Historical Society and Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland that would become a large part of the story told at James A. Garfield National Historic Site. Mollie, was the middle child of the Garfields and she would become a mother and housewife. She married her deceased father's private secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown. Irvin McDowell attended Harvard Law School and apprenticed for his two older brothers at their Cleveland, Ohio firm, Garfield and Garfield. Abram would become a premier Cleveland, Ohio architect. The youngest child of the President and Mrs. Garfield was named Edward, known as "Neddie." Like his sister Eliza, he unfortunately died very young.

Find more about the individual children below.