Ancestry of
James Garfield

20th U.S. President

Abram Garfield

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• • Father of James Garfield — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Garfield 
  • Mother:
  • Asenath Hill   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Dec 1799 
  • Birth Location:
  • Worcester, Otsego, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 May 1833 
  • Death Location:
  • Orange, Cuyahoga, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Roselawn Cemetery, Solon, Cuyahoga, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eliza Ballou
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1820 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio 
  • Child:

  James Abram Garfield (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Abram Garfield

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/19/2013).
  • ² Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, Marriage record for Abraham Garfield and Eliza Ballou.
  • ³ Ballou, Adin, An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America, Providence, R.I.: Press of E. L. Freeman & Son, State Printers (1888), 433, [Death].
  • ⁴ Beyer, Mary Queal, A Genealogical History of the French and Allied Families, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press (1912), 232, [Birth].
  • ⁵ Beyer, Mary Queal, A Genealogical History of the French and Allied Families, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press (1912), 235, [Death].
  • ⁶ Conwell, Russell H., The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States, Boston: B. B. Russell (1881), 33, [Birth].
  • ⁷ Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 19, 1881-1882, Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son (1882), 89, [Birth].
  • ⁸ Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 19, 1881-1882, Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son (1882), 89, [Death].
  • ⁹ Porter, Rev. Edward G., Concerning President Garfield's Ancestry, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, University Press (1881), 9.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 4.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 440, 442, 458-460, 481-482, 535.
  • ¹² Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 1175-1176.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "James A. Garfield", (accessed 03/07/2013).