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Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 Subscription to create a trust fund for the Garfield family

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00811 Author/Creator: Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 Place Written: New York Type: Document signed Date: 07 July 1881 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Written and signed after Garfield's assassination. Also signed by businessmen Junius S. Morgan, Collis P. Huntington, J. Seligman, Henry M. Flagler, William Rockefellar (also John D. by Flagler), Russell Sage and Jay Gould, and others.

Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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