Excerpt from From Log-Cabin to White House: The Story of President Garfield's Life Sixteen years ago the author prepared a book for boys upon the early life Of Abraham Lincoln, entitled, the pioneer boy, and How HE became president. The favorable reception of that. Vol ume carried it through thirty-six editions. Six months ago the publisher of this volume suggested that a Similar work for boys of the present time, upon the early life of General Garfield, would fur nish one of the noblest examples of success for them to imitate. On gathering materials from the most authentic sources, we were forcibly impressed by the resem blance of General Garfield's early Obscurity and struggles, as well as the triumphs of his manhood, to those Of Mr. Lincoln; and this fact completely reconciled us to a previous engagement to prepare the work. Both of these statesmen were born in log-cabins, built by their fathers, in the wilderness, for family homes. Both were poor as mortals can well be. Both were born with talents of the highest order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.