Charles G. Francklyn Francklyns had a twenty room "cottage" in Elberon, New Jersey on Long Beach Island directly on the ocean, designed by Charles F. McKim of McKim, Mead & White. In 1881, when President James Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, the president was taken to Francklyn's cottage, along with his doctors, nurses, and family, to recover. The president died at the cottage shortly thereafter on September 19, 1881. The cottage was later sold in 1889, and eventually burned down in the 1920s. After they sold their New Jersey cottage, they built another summer home in Southampton, New York on Ox
Charles J. Guiteau over the first time he fired it. Guiteau's pistol was recovered after the assassination, and even photographed by the Smithsonian in the early 20th century, but it has since been lost. On one occasion, Guiteau trailed Garfield to the railway station as the President was seeing his wife off to a beach resort in Long Branch, New Jersey, but he decided to postpone his plan because Garfield's wife Lucretia was in poor health and Guiteau did not want to upset her. Having been alerted to the president's schedule by a newspaper article, on July 2, 1881, he lay in wait