Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Check to Albert Hawkins, 1881 June 30.
1881-06-30
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
USA: Washington, D. C.
Ink on paper
3" x 7 3/4"; 8 x 20 cm.; 1 item (2 pages)
Gift of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
A74/002/043

President James A. Garfield issued this check to African-American coachman Albert Hawkins two days before the President was shot. After the death of President Garfield, Mrs. Lucretia Garfield gave the check to the historian Edward Everett Hale, who notes the history of the check on the reverse. Forms part of the Elwell Autograph Collection.