Garfield Administration - Family Life
Family Life
On November 11, 1858, James Garfield married Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph in Hiram, Ohio. Garfield met Crete Rudolph at the Geauga Academy and was attracted to her quick intelligence and desire for learning. The couple set up housekeeping in Hiram and eventually had five children who lived to maturity, Harry, James, Mary, Irwin, and Abram. Crete Garfield played a very small role in the White House due to her own illness and the death of her husband six months after he became president. After her husband's death, Crete Garfield eventually settled with her children at Lawnfield, the estate Garfield had purchased in Mentor, Ohio, where she lived a quiet and private life until her death in 1918.
Two of Garfield's sons went into careers of public service. Harry Garfield was chairman of the price committee of the U.S. Food Administration, then fuel administrator under Woodrow Wilson He earned the Distinguished Service Medal...
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