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1. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Destiny of the Republic A Tale of Madness Medicine and the Murder of a President
I was thinking the same thing: this enormous tomb is a little much for a president who was in office for just six months. I get that Garfield was assassinated, I read Destiny of the Republic, but when compared to the modest tombs of say, George Washington or Thomas Jefferson it really seems like someone was overcompensating...
Druid Society. Lots of them in IL. You might like this, Graveyards of Chicago
Thanks! I do historical research professionally, so I have a lot of experience to quick look-ups. I love this kind of stuff.
For the gravestone type I used a great reference book by Douglas Keister called Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. That mentioned the Sears Catalog connection, so I looked the stone up in a catalog archive I have access to through ancestry.com.
I found Mr. Tunstall listed as an railroad engineer on the 1880 census. I figured that his profession and the fact he died young suggested there was a chance it was in an railroad accident. Using the date of death from his tombstone I found the report of his death in an online newspaper archive.