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 Cemetery in Menands, New York in 1864. The first burial in the family plot was the President's mother, Malvina Stone Arthur (1802-1869).
The President's father was Rev. William Arthur (1796-1875).
We also found three of the President's siblings:
Regina Malvina Arthur Caw (1822-1910)
Jane Arthur (1824-1842)
Ann Elizabeth Arthur (1828-1915)
Six of his eight siblings are buried here and all three of the President's children reside in the family plot:
His 2 1/2 year old son, William Lewis Herndon Arthur (1860-1863)
His daughter Ellen Herndon "Nell" Arthur Pinkerton (1871-1915)
The President's other son, Chester Alan Arthur II (1864-1937), is buried beneath this slap with his second wife, Rowena Dashwood (1894-1965) and his son, Chester Alan Arthur III (1901-1972) that he shared with his first wife, Myra Townsend (divorced 1927). The white slap lies alongside the sarcophagus of Chester Arthur's wife, Ellen "Nell" Lewis Herndon Arthur (1837-1880). She died the year before Arthur became President. His sister, Mary Arthur McElroy (1841-1917) served as the unofficial First Lady during his Presidency.
President Chester Arthur was laid to rest here in 1886 and the large, black sarcophagus was unveiled and placed on his gravesite in 1889.
President Arthur dedicated the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 and the Washington Monument in 1885. He belongs to the club of fifteen Vice Presidents who later became President, the band of eight who rose to the office because of the death of the President, and the group of four who took over after the assassination of the serving President. But he's in a league of his own with this gravesite monument 😊
City of Presidents statue in Rapid City, South Dakota
"Men may die but the fabric of free institutions remains unshaken."

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