James Garfield Tomb

[RJNorton]

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.