James Garfield Tomb

[Anita]

I have been trying to figure out why Robert Lincoln called for Dr. Doctor Bliss, and I found that Robert wrote the following to a friend:

"Mr. Blaine and one or two strangers were by him. I remembered that my driver was awaiting me and ran to him, told him to bring Dr. D. Bliss [the Garfield family physician]."

I have tried to find if Dr. Doctor Bliss was really the Garfield family physician, and so far I have been unsuccessful.

I did find that Ed Steers agrees with Kees. In Ed's Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia Dr. Doctor Bliss is not listed as being present at the Petersen House.

Check out Susan Ann Edson. She was Garfield's family and personal physician. Interesting woman.