Per Falmouth Enterprise;
Irvin McDowell Garfield died yesterday at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston. His death was unexpected. He would have reached his 81st birthday on Aug. 3. Mr. Garfield had been a trustee of Peter Bent Brigham since 1909 and his reappointment was announced by Governor Dever on Wednesday.
The funeral will be held at Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole tomorrow at noon. Burial will be in the Emmons family lot at Oak Grove. Rev. Mason Wilson will officiate. He was a Legal Resident here since his marriage in 1906, to Miss Susan Emmons, Mr. Garfield has given his allegiance to Falmouth. He made Woods Hole his legal residence and the big Garfield house on Nobska point was his home, In Boston he lived at Tudor hotel.
Mr. Garfield was head of the Boston law firm of Warren, Garfield, Whiteside and Lamson. He was a son of President James A. Garfield who was assassinated by Leon Guiteau at a railroad station in Washington in July of 1881. Irwin was then 11.
Irvin McD. Garfield was born at Hiram, Ohio, on Aug, 3, 1870, one of the five children of the 20th president of the United States. He grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and attended St. Paul's school in Concord, N.H. He was graduated from Williams college in 1893. In his senior year he captained the football team. In 1896 he was graduated from Harvard Law school and began practice in Boston. Mr. Garfield's marriage to the daughter of Nathaniel H. Emmons was performed at St. Barnabas church by the Rev. H. H. Smythe on October 16, 1906. A reception followed at the Emmons summer home on Mill road. A special train from Boston stopped on the tracks behind the Emmons home where the guests left the train and later in the day returned to it for the journey back to the city.
He was a member of American and Boston bar associations, Somerset club, the Country club, Williams club of New York and Woods Hole Golf club.
Mr. Garfield is survived by Mrs. Garfield; a son, Irvin McD. Garfield Jr. of Southboro, who is associated with New England Trust company; two daughters, Miss Eleanor Garfield and Mrs. Jane Cheever of Medfleld whose husband, Charles E. Cheever, was affiliated with the First Boston corporation.
Irvin McDowell Garfield died yesterday at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston. His death was unexpected. He would have reached his 81st birthday on Aug. 3. Mr. Garfield had been a trustee of Peter Bent Brigham since 1909 and his reappointment was announced by Governor Dever on Wednesday.
The funeral will be held at Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole tomorrow at noon. Burial will be in the Emmons family lot at Oak Grove. Rev. Mason Wilson will officiate. He was a Legal Resident here since his marriage in 1906, to Miss Susan Emmons, Mr. Garfield has given his allegiance to Falmouth. He made Woods Hole his legal residence and the big Garfield house on Nobska point was his home, In Boston he lived at Tudor hotel.
Mr. Garfield was head of the Boston law firm of Warren, Garfield, Whiteside and Lamson. He was a son of President James A. Garfield who was assassinated by Leon Guiteau at a railroad station in Washington in July of 1881. Irwin was then 11.
Irvin McD. Garfield was born at Hiram, Ohio, on Aug, 3, 1870, one of the five children of the 20th president of the United States. He grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and attended St. Paul's school in Concord, N.H. He was graduated from Williams college in 1893. In his senior year he captained the football team. In 1896 he was graduated from Harvard Law school and began practice in Boston. Mr. Garfield's marriage to the daughter of Nathaniel H. Emmons was performed at St. Barnabas church by the Rev. H. H. Smythe on October 16, 1906. A reception followed at the Emmons summer home on Mill road. A special train from Boston stopped on the tracks behind the Emmons home where the guests left the train and later in the day returned to it for the journey back to the city.
He was a member of American and Boston bar associations, Somerset club, the Country club, Williams club of New York and Woods Hole Golf club.
Mr. Garfield is survived by Mrs. Garfield; a son, Irvin McD. Garfield Jr. of Southboro, who is associated with New England Trust company; two daughters, Miss Eleanor Garfield and Mrs. Jane Cheever of Medfleld whose husband, Charles E. Cheever, was affiliated with the First Boston corporation.
Per Falmouth Enterprise;
Irvin McDowell Garfield died yesterday at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston. His death was unexpected. He would have reached his 81st birthday on Aug. 3. Mr. Garfield had been a trustee of Peter Bent Brigham since 1909 and his reappointment was announced by Governor Dever on Wednesday.
The funeral will be held at Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole tomorrow at noon. Burial will be in the Emmons family lot at Oak Grove. Rev. Mason Wilson will officiate. He was a Legal Resident here since his marriage in 1906, to Miss Susan Emmons, Mr. Garfield has given his allegiance to Falmouth. He made Woods Hole his legal residence and the big Garfield house on Nobska point was his home, In Boston he lived at Tudor hotel.
Mr. Garfield was head of the Boston law firm of Warren, Garfield, Whiteside and Lamson. He was a son of President James A. Garfield who was assassinated by Leon Guiteau at a railroad station in Washington in July of 1881. Irwin was then 11.
Irvin McD. Garfield was born at Hiram, Ohio, on Aug, 3, 1870, one of the five children of the 20th president of the United States. He grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and attended St. Paul's school in Concord, N.H. He was graduated from Williams college in 1893. In his senior year he captained the football team. In 1896 he was graduated from Harvard Law school and began practice in Boston. Mr. Garfield's marriage to the daughter of Nathaniel H. Emmons was performed at St. Barnabas church by the Rev. H. H. Smythe on October 16, 1906. A reception followed at the Emmons summer home on Mill road. A special train from Boston stopped on the tracks behind the Emmons home where the guests left the train and later in the day returned to it for the journey back to the city.
He was a member of American and Boston bar associations, Somerset club, the Country club, Williams club of New York and Woods Hole Golf club.
Mr. Garfield is survived by Mrs. Garfield; a son, Irvin McD. Garfield Jr. of Southboro, who is associated with New England Trust company; two daughters, Miss Eleanor Garfield and Mrs. Jane Cheever of Medfleld whose husband, Charles E. Cheever, was affiliated with the First Boston corporation.
Irvin McDowell Garfield died yesterday at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston. His death was unexpected. He would have reached his 81st birthday on Aug. 3. Mr. Garfield had been a trustee of Peter Bent Brigham since 1909 and his reappointment was announced by Governor Dever on Wednesday.
The funeral will be held at Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole tomorrow at noon. Burial will be in the Emmons family lot at Oak Grove. Rev. Mason Wilson will officiate. He was a Legal Resident here since his marriage in 1906, to Miss Susan Emmons, Mr. Garfield has given his allegiance to Falmouth. He made Woods Hole his legal residence and the big Garfield house on Nobska point was his home, In Boston he lived at Tudor hotel.
Mr. Garfield was head of the Boston law firm of Warren, Garfield, Whiteside and Lamson. He was a son of President James A. Garfield who was assassinated by Leon Guiteau at a railroad station in Washington in July of 1881. Irwin was then 11.
Irvin McD. Garfield was born at Hiram, Ohio, on Aug, 3, 1870, one of the five children of the 20th president of the United States. He grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and attended St. Paul's school in Concord, N.H. He was graduated from Williams college in 1893. In his senior year he captained the football team. In 1896 he was graduated from Harvard Law school and began practice in Boston. Mr. Garfield's marriage to the daughter of Nathaniel H. Emmons was performed at St. Barnabas church by the Rev. H. H. Smythe on October 16, 1906. A reception followed at the Emmons summer home on Mill road. A special train from Boston stopped on the tracks behind the Emmons home where the guests left the train and later in the day returned to it for the journey back to the city.
He was a member of American and Boston bar associations, Somerset club, the Country club, Williams club of New York and Woods Hole Golf club.
Mr. Garfield is survived by Mrs. Garfield; a son, Irvin McD. Garfield Jr. of Southboro, who is associated with New England Trust company; two daughters, Miss Eleanor Garfield and Mrs. Jane Cheever of Medfleld whose husband, Charles E. Cheever, was affiliated with the First Boston corporation.
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