The 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
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Assassination of James A. Garfield
Charles G. Francklyn