Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — The Garfields. [ARTICLE]

The Garfields.

Washington letter in Boston Transcript Miss Garfield, after her return from her wedning trip to Europe, will live in Washington, with her husband, Mr. Stanley Brown. It will be remembered that he was President Garfield’s private syretary. Unless Mrs. Garfield has lately sold it, she still owns the comfortable double brick-house at the corner of Thirteenth and I street, built by General Garfield during the latter part of his term in Congress. It has *a large yard for a city house, and one of the commonest sights of the neighborhood was General Garfield romping with his boys in the little green inclosure. The house was shut up for some years—the tide of fashion flowed beyond it —and it had even a more and deserted look than vacant houses usually have. Miss Garfield is entirely unknown in Washington. She was only twelve or thirteen when she left, and her childish friends and companions belonged to that changing political and official circle that vanishes like rime in the morning sun.