Chester Alan Arthur ~ October 5, 1829 (or 1830) - November 8, 1886

21st President, 1881 - 1885 Chester Arthur sites visited: Arthur is one of two Presidents from Vermont (the other being Calvin Coolidge) and some say he was actually born across the border in Canada. Sometime after the Civil War (another source says 1858), Arthur purchased this five story home at 123 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Today the first two floors are occupied by Kalustyan's Indian grocery store and the other floors have been divided into apartments. Here's the building and the hard-to-read plaque from our 2021 visit to New York. Garfield was shot four months into his term and two months later he died. Arthur took his oath of office here after Garfield's death. Ugly rumors spread after the shooting of Garfield that Arthur was involved in his assassination. Arthur finished that first term and did not campaign for a second. He died a year after leaving the Presidency, here in his home. Chester Arthur's father bought a large family plot in Albany Rural Ceme...