In Death by Lightning, Betty Gilpin gives a knockout performance as First Lady Lucretia “Crete” Garfield. But Crete had an exciting life beyond the events that appear in the four-episode Netflix ...

She met her husband in school. When Crete was 15, she began attending Geauga Seminary, where Garfield was a classmate. They both continued on to the boarding school Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, ...