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Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942) was an American lawyer, academic, and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I.
Quick Facts. Significance: Son of President James A. Garfield. Place of Birth: Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. Date of Birth: October 11, 1863. Place of Death: Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Date of Death: December 12, 1942. Place of Burial: Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Cemetery Name: Williams College Cemetery.
Harry Augustus Garfield (1863-1942), the son of President James A. Garfield (1831-1881), worked in a number of civic positions throughout his lifetime. After graduating from Williams College in 1885 and studying at Columbia Law School, he spent the next twenty years practicing and teaching law.
When Harry Augustus Garfield was born on 11 October 1863, in Hiram, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, President James Abram Garfield, was 31 and his mother, Lucretia Rudolph, was 31. He married Belle Hartford Mason on 14 June 1888, in Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States.
Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942) was an American lawyer, academic, and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I. He was a son of President James A. Garfield.
Born in 1863, Garfield was the son of assassinated Republican president James A. Garfield, and a shocked witness to the fatal shooting of 1881. Garfield spent the rest of his life coming to terms with the personal and political implications of this tragic heritage.
The Harry Augustus Garfield Papers document the personal and professional activities of Harry Garfield. The collection comprises correspondence, notes, diaries, speeches, reports, clippings and ephemera.
