James A. Garfield Memorial, Ohio

An elaborate mausoleum in Cleveland, the James A. Garfield Memorial in Lake View Cemetery, was finished in 1890.

James A. Garfield, the 20^th president, died in office in 1881, after serving for only two months. An elaborate mausoleum in Cleveland, near his home and birthplace, was finished in 1890, in Lake View Cemetery. Three other presidents were at the dedication ceremony: current President Benjamin Harrison; former President Rutherford Hayes; and future President William McKinley, who would be felled by an assassin himself, eleven years later.