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Inc general PUBIC needs an Introduction
10 the Democratic candidat for President.
Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell,
Essex County, N. j., March IS, 1887. He
is descended from an old New England |
family of eminent respectability. His
father was Richard Cleveland, a Presby-
terrain Minister, who removed from Nor.
witch, Conn, to New Jersey. Grover OBJ
tanned as good an education as possible |
from the common schools, and at the age |
of fifteen years he was sent to the academy |
at Clinton, Oneida Coun y, N. Y, where |
he remained for a short time. The family |
then moved up on the Black River, to |
what was known as the Holland Patents |
village OF 500 or 600 people-fifteen miles |
north of Utica. The elder Cleveland |
preached but three Sundays in this place, |
when he suddenly died. Grover first
heard OF his fathers death while walking
with his sister in the streets of Utica. This
event produced the usual breakup of the
family, and we next hear Ut Grover Cleve.
land setting out for New York city to ac-
cept at a small salary the position of I'M
der teacher in an asylum for the blind,
where, at the time the since well known
Gus Shell was executive officer. He re-
manned there two years.
HE GOES WEST.
Being of an energetic aud ambitious ma
at the age of seventeen to seek his fortune
in the West. Something like a poetic in
stinct turned his steps toward the city of
Cleveland, o., but stopping in Buffalo to
visit his uncle, the Hon. Lewis +. Allen,
he was induced to make that place his
home "See here" said his uncle, a we'll
known stock breeder, II want somebody
to get up my herd book this year. You
come and stay with me and help me, and
I'll give YOU so for the years work, and
nd &c hat xun
find the boy annotating shorthorns out at
Black Rock, two miles from Buffalo. But
he kept his eye out for chance to enter a
| law office while he was editing the stock
| book, and one day he walked boldly into
| the rooms of Messrs. Rogers, Bowen d
Rogers and told them what he wanted.
| There were number of young men in the
place already. But young Cleveland's per.
| sistency won, and he was finally permitted
to come as an office boy and have the use
| of the law library. For this he received
| the nominal sum of of three or four dollars
| a week, out of which he had to pay his
| board and washing. The walk to and
from his uncle's was a long and at that
time rugged one.
In LAW AND POLITICS.
| After four years in the office, in 1853,
Cleveland was admitted to practice. In
| 1868 the question of who should be appoint
| ed Assistant District Attorney for the
|
| the young lawyers in Messrs. Rogers q
| Bowen's Office. There were several wing
were both eligible and anxious, but it does
not appear that young Cleveland advanced
his own claims. Indeed, 1t is fact that
| after the matter had been pretty well can
vassed they all agreed that he was the per-
son that ought to have it, and they urged
him to accept it, and he was appointed.
| Although only twenty-five years old, he
acquitted himself creditably and won
| ,.fNx ,rft "a
that he held the position. In 1868 he was
nominated by the Erie County Democrats
for District Attorney, but was defeated by
the Hon. Lyman X. Bass by small ma
jority. Mr.. Cleveland formed a law part
nership with the late Major i. V. Wander
poel in 1866, but Major Vanderpoel was
elected Police Justice soon afterward, and
Mr.. Cleveland became "A member of the
firm of Laning, Cleveland 81 Folsom, of
which the late Senator A. T. Laning
was the head In the fall of 1870
Mr.. Cleveland was elected Sheriff of Erie
County, All office which he held for three
years. Soon after retiring from the office
he entered into copartnership with his old
political adversary, Congressman Lyman
K. Bass, under the firm name of Bass,
Cleveland & Bssell. Upon the removal
of Mr.. Bass to Denver, COL, few years
ago, the firm became Cleveland, Bissell &
Sicard, and it now ranks among the first
in Erie County.
MAYOR, GOVERNOR AND MAN.
In 1881 when a large proportion Of the
Republicans of Buffalo revolted against
"ring" rule, Mr.. Cleveland was shrewdly
nominated by the Democrats as their can
didate for Mayor, in the expectation that
his personal popularity would win the
votes of the disaffected Republicans. Al
though Mr. Cleveland refused TO make q
personal canvass he was elected by more
than 5000 majority in city that can usu-
ally be counted on for from 1000 TO 3,O0O
h publican majority on State or National
issues. AS Mayor Mr. Cleveland com
manded general respect. His election to
the Governshp year later is within every
ones memory. This brief record covers
the whole of Governor Cleveland's public
career.
The Democratic candidate for President
S a little above the medium height, with q
portly and well-proportioned figure His
head, which is set squareiy upon pair oil
broad shoulders, is we'll shaped, and Ii
summons ted by thin layer of dark hail
t.nged with gray. His features are regu
lar and full of intelligent expression. His
eyes are penetrating in their glance. He
wears no beard, but heavy dark mus
tache completely covers his mouth, and
underneath is a square, firm chin. in his
movements Mr.. Cleveland is deliberate
dignified and graceful. Among his in
innate friends he is a most agreeable ant
entertaining gentleman. In his profes
sion Mr. Cleveland has been an industrious
student, and, although still young anC
comparatively unknown as practitioner
he stands high in the estimation of thos'
who know him. he has earned com
, potency at hio profession. As speaker
: he is a self-contained and eloquent. Mr.
Cleveland is n bachelor, and is a membe
of both OF tho large social clubs OF But
falo.