James A. Garfield James A. Garfield was born in Cleveland, OH, November 19,1831. He was the last president to be born in a log cabin. Garfield was 10 pounds at birth and ended up a large man when he grew up. He weighted pounds and he was 6 feet tall. In 1848 he left home to work on a canal boat. Within six weeks he had to come home, because he got really sick. He decided to go back …showed first 75 words of 525 total…

…showed last 75 words of 525 total…they managed to take a 3 inch would and turn it into a twenty inch canal that was infected more and more each day. He soon got blood poisoning from the bullet and massive infection and the President died of heart failure. At the autopsy, the examiners determined that the bullet had lodged itself four inches from the spine in a protective cyst. They said he would have survived if the doctors had left him alone.