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James A. B. Scherer asks Frank Harper if the telegram includes the ladies’ acceptance of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield’s invitation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
James A. B. Scherer, President of Throop Polytechnic Institute, invites Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and the other ladies traveling in Theodore Roosevelt’s party to meet his wife Bessie, along with Minnie McNeal Johnson, wife of California Governor Hiram Johnson, at a private dinner preceding Roosevelt’s lecture in Pasadena. He asks Frank Harper to reply with the number in the party within the week.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-05
James Rudolph Garfield apologizes that he cannot greet Theodore Roosevelt when he comes to Ohio as he will be out of town for a speech. His mother, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, is disappointed Roosevelt did not follow her advice regarding the nomination. Nathaniel C. Wright can give Roosevelt a clear statement of the present political situation in Ohio. John Hays Hammond attended the Republican picnic and saw that the Republicans will only tolerate the progressive movement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-24
President Roosevelt asks Representative Loudenslager, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, if it is possible to pass a bill granting a pension to President Grover Cleveland’s widow, Frances Folsom Cleveland. He notes that the widows of Presidents James A. Garfield and William McKinley are granted pensions. Although Garfield and McKinley both served in the army, their widows received pensions because of their husbands’ service as Presidents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-04