Fair play., 1884-07-19

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:, the Democratic cani date for President.
Grover Cleveland was born in Ca!,iwe,i,
Essex County. Y. j., March i, lS:;.. He
| is descended from an old New Euglaui
family of eminent responsibility. His
fa; her was Richard Ciev iaui, a fre>hy
| terian Minister, who removed from Nor
wich, Conn. tn New J.rs.v. Grover Oh
/ tanned as good au education a possible
| from the common schools. and at the ag,'
| of'tifteen years tie was sent t. the academy
| a Clinton, Oneida c"un y, y. V, here
he rema ned for Il short tim. The family
then moved up on the ak River, to
| what was known rs tn" Hot.aHi Pateut-a
village o. - or $40 people fifteen miles
north Of Utica. the elder Cleveland
| preached hu: tnre,. sundays III tins place.
| when he suddenly died. ,ir,ver first
| heard of his lath"I's a"a.h wilii" waikin =
| with his sister in the streets 4 Utica. THIS
| event produced the usual breakup o, the
| family, and We next hear Of Grover tlevc-
land setting out FOR New York city to ac-
| cept AT Il slal! salary Tia. position oi nm
| Ier-teacher IN an asylum i"r the blind,
| where, at the time ti.'. since veliknnwu
Gus Shell was tx-ra:Iy. "tticer. lie re-
| mainrt there twp year.
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| Beius of an energetic aud amh.t ous nt-
| ture, however, young Cleveland started out
| AT the a-- oi seventeen I - ~cei. his fortune
iii the West. Something; like Il poeti, in
stinct turned his >tcps toward! the city of
| Cleveland, u, bat stopping III Buffalo Ia
visit his uncle, the Hon. Lewis +. Allen.
| he was induced to make that place hiS
home. .'See here" said his uncle, Il we'll
| known stock breeder" 81 want somebody
| to get up my herd book tins year. You
| come and stay with me AMI help me, ani
| I'll Civ. You 80 for ih" years work, an /
ynu can luoa around" Here il iS that ~
| find the boy aHnptating >hOrth0rn~ uut at
| Black Rock, two mics from Buffalo,: HIt
| he kept his eye out for IL chance t. eIS.r Il
| law office Will. il" was editing the St.cl.
| book, and one day he wake boldly int
the rooms of MrS>rs. Rogers, i ,w"n ~
| Rogers ani toll them what h" wan Ell.
| There wer. a number of Young men iii til..
| place already. EUt young Cleveland, per-
sistency won, AMI ho was finally permitted
| to come as an office boy and hav. the USE
| OF the law library. For this hc received
| the nominal sum of uf three or four dollars
| "A week. out nf which he tai To pay his
| board and washing. The walk I" and
| from his unci,.'s was n long ani at that
time 4 rugged nnc.
| IL LAW AND POLITICS.
| After four years in the office, in 1888,
| Cleveland was admitted to practice. In
iNbJ ths question oil VINO should Dr appoint
| al Assistant District Attorney for the
| County of Erie was warmly discussed by
the young lawyers in McssrS. Rogers IL
| Bowen'S Office. There were several who
| were both eligible and anxious, hut il does
| not appear that young Cleveland advanced
| his own Gains. iui....l, il Is Il fact that
after the matter had been pretty we'll can
| vassed they all agreed that he was the per-
son that ought To have ii, and they urged
him to accept II, aud he was appointed.
| Although only twenty five years old, he
| acquitted himself crciitahly and won
much popularity during the three years
| That he held the position. In lS'i5 he was
| nominated by the Erie County Democrats
| for District Attorney, but WAS defeated 10y
! the Hon. Lyman X. Bass by a small ma
| jority. Mr.. Cleveland formed a law part
| rership with the lat, Major |. Y. Wander
poei in 1856, but Major Vandcrpoel was
elected Police Justice soon atterward, and
Mr. Cleveland became a member OF the
firm of i.aning, Cleveland n Folsom, of
was the head. In the fall of 1870
Mr.. Cleveland was elected Sheriff of Erie
County, an office which he held tor three
years. Soon after retiring from the office
he entered into copartnerShip with his old
political adversary, Congressman Lyman
X. Bass, under the firm name of Bass,
Cleveland Il Bissell. Upon the removal
of Mr.. Bass 10 Denver, Col, u few years
ago, the firm became Cleveland, BisSell "
| Sicard, and it now ranks among the first
| i'll Erie County.