United States PresidentJames A. Garfield was brought to Long Branch in the hope that the fresh air and quiet in Elberon might aid his recovery after being shot on July 2, 1881, an incident that left the
assassin's bullet encysted behind the pancreas. He died here on September 19, 1881, at age 49.[7] The
Garfield Tea House, built from railroad ties that carried Garfield's train, is in Elberon.[8]
^(2006) The Year in Review, The Long Branch Historical Association, Page 1.
^Sharkey, Joe.
"The Great Boardwalk Towns of Jersey", The New York Times, August 4, 1991. Accessed July 10, 2007. "Along the 125-mile stretch of Jersey seashore, the northernmost of the Great Boardwalk Towns is Asbury Park, a resort that developed in the late 1800s as an alternative to its then vice-ridden neighbor, Long Branch, the town where President James Garfield died from gunshot wounds and thus became the first, but by no means only, local habitue to be dispatched at the hand of a disappointed office seeker."
^"Weird NJ: Presidential death on the Jersey Shore", Asbury Park Press, November 25, 2014. Accessed December 21, 2016. "On the grounds of the church is located one more odd little reminder of Garfield's final trip to the Jersey Shore––a small red and white wooden playhouse known as the 'Garfield Tea House.' It was constructed from the railroad ties used to lay the emergency track that transported the dying president from the nearby Elberon train station to the oceanfront cottage where he died."
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abArmstrong, Mike.
"Stirring the soup for larger goals", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 17, 2013. Accessed September 6, 2022, via
Newspapers.com. "But that's not how Morrison, 59, and her three sisters were raised in the coastal community of Elberon, N.J.... All four sisters went far in the corporate world. Maggie Wilderotter was the first to land a top job, becoming CEO of Frontier Communications Corp. in 2004."