A Minnesota "DAKE" HOME PAGE:Information about James Garfield Henry
James Garfield Henry (b. Nov 10, 1880, d. Aug 18, 1901)
Notes for James Garfield Henry:
James Garfield Henry, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov 10, 1880.He graduated from Hiram College in 1900, Law student at Western Reserve University from 1900/01.He was a charter member of Ranney Chapter, Phi Delta Phi, a fine speaker and an all-around athlete, he kicked the two goals at the annual Thanksgiving football contest in Cleveland, 1900, between Case and Western Reserve.He was an enthusiastic botanist, a lover of the farm and popular socially.He died in Bainbridge, Ohio on August 18, 1901, still not quite 21 years old.
In the newspaper story of his death it tells the following...(I just have the clipping and not sure if it's from a Cleveland paper or another local paper.
It was as an athlete that he was most known to the public.He was more than six feet tall and was one of the stars of the Western Reserve University foot ball and basket ball teams.He was the hero of the Reserve-Case foot ball game last Thanksgiving day, when he kicked two goals during the game.Besides his father and mother he leaves a brother, Attorney-at-Lay Frederick A. Henry of Cleveland, and two sisters, Miss Marcia Henry, principal of the ladies department of Hiram College, and Mrs A. G. Webb, of Mineral Ridge, Ohio.