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11 “Hancock the Superb”: “The Democratic Trojan Horse,” New York Times, July 31, 1880.
12 “rebel party”: Peskin, Garfield, 277.
13 In fact, Garfield had turned down the stock: The Transactions of the Credit Mobilier Company, and an Examination of that Portion of the Testimony Taken by the Committee of Investigation and Reported to the House of Representatives at the Last Session of the Forty-Second Congress which Relates to Mr. Garfield. Washington, 1873.
14 “There is nothing in my relation”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 530.
15 In the end, the effort to renew: Leech and Brown, The Garfield Orbit, 218.
16 “Individuals or companys”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 1039–41.
17 In New York, Garfield campaign clubs: New York Times, October 2, 1880; September 25, 1880; October 18, 1880.
18 “support Gen. Garfield for President”: New York Times, September 27, 1880.
19 In Washington, D.C., a former slave: New York Times, July 4, 1880.
20 “Now we’ll use a Freemen’s right”: Book of Election Songs, Song 21, microfilm at the Library of Congress, Garfield Papers.
21 “It could not have been larger”: New York Times, October 26, 1880.
22 “James A. Garfield must be our President”: Ibid.
23 “front porch talks”: Leech and Brown, The Garfield Orbit, 212.
24 “As the singers poured out”: Stanley-Brown, “My Friend Garfield.”
25 A few weeks later: Garfield, Diary, November 2, 1880, 4:480.
26 “coolest man in the room”: “At General Garfield’s Home,” New York Times, November 3, 1880.
27 “the news of 3 a.m.”: Garfield, Diary, November 3, 1880, 4:481.
28 “There is a tone of sadness”: Garfield, November 8, 1880, quoted in Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 1048.
Chapter 6: Hand and Soul
1 As Garfield tried to accept: Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 111.
2 “I did not realize”: “Bell’s ‘Electric Toy,’ ” New York Times, January 2, 1905.
3 By the summer of 1877: Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 88.
4 That same year, President Hayes: Gray, Reluctant Genius, 180–81.
5 “A Professor Bell explained”: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 193.
6 “the voice already carries”: Quoted in Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 86.
7 “Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me”: Quoted in Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 160.
8 After Morse developed: Casson, The History of the Telephone; Lubrano, The Telegraph, 140–41.
9 “It can speak, but it won’t!”: Quoted in MacKenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 215–16.
10 Although Bell deeply resented: Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 75.
11 To add insult to injury: Ibid.; Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 173.
12 In a court of law: Gray, Reluctant Genius, 197. Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 270.
13 With Western Union’s defeat: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Contracted Space, p. 212.
14 The fighting, however, continued: MacKenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 214.
15 “Of all the men who didn’t”: Quoted in ibid., 218. Although the legitimacy of Bell’s telephone patent has been scrutinized in hundreds of lawsuits, and over more than a century, the question of whether or not he invented the telephone continues to be raised. Perhaps the most persistent accusation against Bell is that he took the idea of a liquid transmitter from Elisha Gray. (For the most recent of these arguments, see A. Edward Evenson’s The Telephone Patent Controversy of 1876, and Seth Shulman’s The Telephone Gambit.) It should be noted, however, that Bell had been using liquid transmitters in experiments for several years before he filed his patent for the telephone. Moreover, Bell did not use a liquid transmitter either in the model he presented at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, or in the telephone his company sold commercially.