Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph was born on April 19, 1832 to Arabella Mason and Zebulon Rudolph. She acquired her love of learning from her father, and was well educated for a woman of her day who enjoyed translating Greek and Latin. She first met "Jim" Garfield when both attended Geauga Seminary, and they renewed their friendship in 1851 as students at the Western Reserve Eclectic