Rutherford B. Hayes

Hayes was not asked by his party to run for a second term. He had alienated too many supporters by his unpopular stands on many issues. After turning over the White House to President James A. Garfield in March 1881, Hayes contentedly retired to Spiegel Grove. He devoted himself to nonpolitical activities, such as public education, especially in the South, and prison reform. In 1889, Mrs. Hayes died. Almost four years later, while on a visit to friends in Cleveland, Hayes suffered a heart attack. At his urgent request he was brought back to Spiegel Grove, and he died there on January 17, 1893.