Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-07-17
Grover Cleveland.

The present Governor Of the State Of
New York, and the Democratic nomi-
nee for President ofthe United States,
comes from New England stock. His
great-grandfather, Aaron Cleveland,
was born In l744, at one of the Had
dams that dot the Connecticut river
just above its mouth. He was a man
of great literary talents, and his in
clinations led him into the ministry.
His charges were in Vermont and Con-
necticut, where he died in 1915. One
of his sons was "Father Cleveland % the
city missionary of Boston, who died in
1872 at the age Of 100 years. A daugh-
ter married DIR. Samuel H. Coke, whose
son, DR.. A. c. Coke, is the Episcopal
Bishop Of Western New York. The
second son, William, was the grand
father of Grover Cleveland. A son of
William, named Richard, was the father
of the present Governor of New York.
Richard Cleveland was born atNorwich,
Connecticut, 1904 and graduated at
Yale College in 1924. Many of his
classmates still survive. After teach
ing school and studying theology at
Princeton he was ordained a Presby-
terian minister in 1928. Hist charge
was at Windham, Connecticut. In
1929 he married a daughter of Abner
Neall, of Baltimore. Then he had
charge of churches in Portsmouth,
Virginia, and Caldwell, New York, after
which he went to Fayetteville, near
Syracuse, New York. Thence he went
to Holland Patent, near Utica, New
York, where he died in 1853, His wife
died at the same place in 1882, aged 7S,
a few months before the distinguished
triumph of her son Grover at the polls
in November of the same year. She
had nine children, the fifth of whom
Stephen Grover-4-was born at Caldwell,
N. Y, March IS, 1887. He was named
for his fathers predecessor in the pas
torate, but dropped the stephen" be-
cause everybody called him "Grover."
When his father died Grover was Is
years old. In. the course of a few
months he became the assistant>of his
brother who had charge of q blind
asylum. Then, in 1855, he set out for
the west in company with one of his
young friends who also wished to grow
up with the country. Both of the young
men were attracted by the City of Cleve-
land-on account of the name. But
friends in Buffalo persuaded the young
men to stop in that city and Grover
Cleveland entered the law office of
Rogers, Bowen & Rogers as a student.
A liberal salary was soon allowed him
because he earned it--and, in 1859, he
was admitted to the bar. He still re-
mained with the firm which had acted
as his preceptors. For three years he
held the position of Assistant District
of Erie county (Buffalo,) N.
Y. He was then nominated by the
in 1865, for District Attor-
ney, but he was defeated. His first
law partnership was with the late ]. V.
This continued till August
1869. Since that date he has belonged
to the following firms, all in the City |
Of Buffalo: Laning, Cleveland & Fol-
som; Bass, Cleveland & Bissell; Cleve-
land & Bissell, and Cleveland, Bissell
& Sicard. The latter firm continued to
the time of his election as Governor of
New York. In 1870 Mr.. Cleveland was
elected Sheriff of Erie county by large |
Eleven years later he was
the Democratic candidate for Mayor Of I
the city of Buffalo and was elected by
a decisive majority. His administration
was so satisfactory and his course 80 |
fair and bipartisan that better things
were expected for him. Therefore,
when the Democratic State Convention
met at Syracuse in September, 1882, all
eyes were turned towards him as one
Of the leading candidates for Governor.
He was elected by 192,s54 votes over
Charles J. Folger, the Republican nomi-
nee, and took possession of the office
January l, 1883. 1H + <@,a
The official life of Governor Cleveland |
Is very monotonous and very irksom.
He is at his desk from early in the
till late at night, and his
hours of rest are few when the Legisla-
ture is in session. His callers are many
and they are not always considerate of
his time. Yet he never loses his temp
er. He is truly Democratic and he is
very readily approached. An hour is
taken from his desk for lunch, and |
rather more than one for his dinner.
Governor Cleveland resides in the
Executive Mansion which has been oc-
cupied by all the Governors, from Til
den down. He keeps no horses, his
preference being to walk. In person
he is large and heavy. His face is full
without showing the extreme fullness
that nearly every corpulent person has.
In fact the expression of his face is of
IN unusually pleasant nature.
Attention, Democrats.