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Lucretia Garfield ( née Rudolph; April 19, 1832 – March 14, 1918) was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Garfield first met her husband at Geauga Seminary.
Lucretia Garfield (born April 19, 1832, Hiram, Ohio, U.S.—died March 13, 1918, Pasadena, California) was an American first lady (March 4–September 19, 1881), the wife of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States.
Dec 2, 2009 · Lucretia Garfield (1832-1918) was an American first lady (March 4–September 19, 1881), and the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
Lucretia Rudolph-Garfield served as First Lady of the United States in 1881 until the assassination of her husband, President James A. Garfield.
Lucretia Garfield. Lucretia Rudolph was born on April 19, 1832 to Arabella Mason and Zebulon Rudolph. She acquired her love of learning from her father, and was well educated for a woman of her day who enjoyed translating Greek and Latin.
Because her husband's presidency was cut short, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield will be remembered mostly for her loving devotion to her dying husband. Yet Crete was much more than simply a helpmate and a nurse; she was also a scholar and an intellectual, a fitting role model for future First Ladies who wanted to be more than just their husbands ...
Lucretia Garfield's ancestry is one of the most extensively-researched of all the First Ladies. Traced back from England, her ancestral charts show that she had roots in France, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Scotland, Holland, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
