 On May 19 , 1890 , Garfield 's body was permanently interred , with great solemnity and fanfare , in a mausoleum in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland . Attending the dedication ceremonies were former president Hayes , President Benjamin Harrison , and future president William McKinley . Garfield 's Treasury Secretary , William Windom , also attended . Harrison said that Garfield was always a " student and instructor " and that his life works and death would " continue to be instructive and inspiring incidents in American history " . Three panels on the monument display Garfield as a teacher , Union major general , and orator ; another shows him taking the Presidential oath , and a fifth shows his body lying in state at the Capitol rotunda in Washington D.C. 
