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Thus, when his first season as a teacher was ended, he returned home with the reputation of one of the most successful common schoolmasters in the country. The Young Janitor at Hiram Institute Personal Appearance at this time Teaching and Preaching The Tailor of Troy The Beginning of the Civil War. James Garfield attended the Geauga Seminary three years in succession.
He would have liked a new suit of clothes, but this was out of the question. All the money he had at command was the seventeen dollars which his mother had offered him. He must get along with this sum, and so with hopeful heart he set out for Geauga Seminary. He did not go alone. On hearing of his determination, two boys, one a cousin, made up their minds to accompany him.
During his school-life at Geauga Seminary James enjoyed the companionship of a cousin, Henry B. Boynton, who still lives on the farm adjoining the one on which our hero was born. The relationship between the two boys was much closer than is common between cousins; for while their mothers were sisters, their fathers were half-brothers.
The Geauga Seminary was a Freewill Baptist institution, and was attended by a considerable number of students, to whom it did not, indeed, furnish what is called "the higher education," but it was a considerable advance upon any school that James had hitherto attended.
Kelly has devoted himself closely to the practice of the law; the only interruption to this was a two years service as State senator in the legislature of Ohio during the years 1844 and 1845. He was elected to the senate by the Whig party of the counties of Cuyahoga and Geauga, these two counties then composing one senatorial district.
The district school had been succeeded by Geauga Seminary, that by Hiram Institute, and now he looked Eastward for still higher educational privileges. There was a college of his own sect at Bethany, not far away, but the young man was not so blinded by this consideration as not to understand that it was not equal to some of the best known colleges at the East. Which should he select?
"I want to prepare for college. I shall wish to study Latin, Greek, mathematics, and anything else that may be needed." "Have you studied any of these already?" "Yes, sir." "Where?" "At the Geauga Seminary. I can refer you to the teachers there. I have studied under them for three years, and they know all about me." "What is your name?" "James A. Garfield."
His pay as a teacher was little more than nominal, and it was still necessary that he should work to live, therefore he engaged his mornings and evenings, as at Geauga, to a local carpenter, and thus supported himself. Such perseverance as this of course attracted the attention of both his fellow-students and his professors.
From the time he entered Geauga Seminary probably he never seriously doubted that he had entered upon the right path. James called on the carpenter after supper and inquired if he could supply him with work. "I may be able to if you are competent," was the reply. "Have you ever worked at the business?" "Yes." "Where?" "At Orange, where my home is." "How long did you work at it?"
I see before me many who have been my playfellows and associates, but to-day a new relation is established between us. I am here as your teacher, regularly appointed by the committee, and it is my duty to assist you as far as I can to increase your knowledge. I should hardly feel competent to do so if I had not lately attended Geauga Seminary, and thus improved my own education.
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