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- Creator is exactly "Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881"
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Check to Albert Hawkins, 1881 June 30
President James A. Garfield issued this check to African-American coachman Albert Hawkins two days before the President was shot. After the death of President Garfield, Mrs. Lucretia Garfield gave the check to the historian Edward Everett Hale, who…
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Copy of a patent issued to Moses Michael Hays
Moses Michael Hays' own copy of a patent issued to Hays by Henry Andrew Francken, dated December 6, 1768. The patent deputized Hays with the powers of…