The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-02
A TRIBUTE TO MR.. CLEVELAND.
Pastor Hamilton W. Pierson, of Toledo,
Tells of His Generous Deeds.

Tells of His Generous Deeds.
At the age of 81 Grover Clevelan
was admitted to the bar, and was 500
employed as assistant district attorne
in Erie county, New York During a
his struggles for self-support he neve
forgot the mother and little ones h
had left behind, but, denying himself
shared his scanty earnings with them
AS business came rapidly to him iron
year to year, and the earnings of hi
early professional life increased, hi
bounties to his mother and those a
home were constantly enlarged. Dur
ing recent years his success at tn,
bar has enabled him to enjoy the com
forts and luxuries of life and live il
style befitting his high position; but
by voluntarily denying himself these,
the closing years of the life of the
mother he so loved and adored-to
whom he alluded with such touching
pathos in his letter to Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher-were crowned with
unstinted abundance and the most
tender and loving care; the children
younger than himself enjoyed the adj
vantages of the best institutions of
learning, and as they have married
and settled in life he has stood
by them financially in the place of
generous father. His Oldest sis
ter, the wife of the Rev. Eurotas p
Hastings, d. D., sailed for India with
her husband the June preceding her
fathers death, where they have since
labored as honored missionaries of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions. Though so far away,
she has never been forgotten by this
brother, and the missionary stipend
has often been supplemented from his
generous and ever-open purse. When
four of their children, two sons and
two daughters, came to this country
from India, he most naturally and
cheerfully assumed for them the same
anxious solicitude and generous care
he had SO long bestowed upon his own |
brothers and sisters. The mother of |
Grover Cleveland was a native of
Maryland. She possessed in an emf
nent degree the gentleness and re-
pose of manners so marked in the
highest type of southern-born matrons.
In the home SO generously provided
for her, her serene old age was happy
and bright. Here she welcomed her chill
dren and grandchildren, and to those
from distant India who came to cheer
her she extended a generous and
long-continued hospitality. From that
home she was borne to the grave but
a short time before her son was elected :
governor of New York. Since the
death of his father in 1858 the I
benefactions of Grover Cleveland ,
to his mother and all these her ,
do 70 hoy 10
of dollars. The Presbyterian church !
makes generous provision for her
"disabled ministers and the widows
and orphans of deceased ministers. 7" y
For this purpose more than 1921, 200 {
were collected during the past year. .
Though often urged, the sensitive spir- Il
t OF Mrs. Cleveland shrank from re- v
,eiving this aid. Her son, Grover, :,
warmly sympathizing with, ulged her I
o decline it, and neither mother nor u u
on have ever received dollar from u
his fund. Only recently knelt in Il
rayer at the dying bed of a warm "
ersonal friend, clergyman of the
rotestant Episcopal church but few CO
ours before he passed away. He told m
he then, as he had often told me be- M
ore, of his great sorrow in leaving his W
life and children without adequate la
lpport. Could he and thousands of va
Their clergymen, who ave died OPP
ressed with a similar burden, have CO
newn that they would leave a son with c;
lie noble impulses and generous heart eV
Grover Cleveland, their closing to
ours would have been less sad tn
through my travels in the service of pc
lie American Bible society, the Ameri-
IN Tract society, and my extended la.
as an invalid in search of BIZ
,alth, my acquaintance with the fami- wi
Is of clergymen in the north and XII
'uth, east and west, from ocean to TIL
,ean, during the last forty years has no
zen exceptionally large. But if in the tn,
nited States any minister of the Cos
d has ever left son, who, through so sta
ng a series of years, with such per- ar,
NAL sacrifice and self-denial and so ,ya
UGH anxious care, freely gave so lus
rye part of the results of his la 90,
)rious toll for the maintenance and of
,mfort of cherished mother, and tbo
It the sustenance, education and hap ma
ness OF her children and grandchil- !
'en, | have yet to learn the fact. Il
aturally diffident, silent, secretive, o. y,
III lnStlHctlVely shrinking from d.;
violation of himself to others, can ~
ell understand how greatly he will nv. .no
startled by this statement of facts o een
little known outside the family cir G st's
g. But it is due the American peo- ne. nc
e, after campaign of unparalleled 'n''
,nder and falshoods, that they should A
low what l have revealed. NV first l
tie was cast in my native town, in Ior'
'nesee county, New York, for Will oth'
m H. Seward. AS long as the whig seal
rty existed voted with them, and mos
an transferred NV warmest svmna- and
es and votes to the republican party. par
ON. 1888 to 1884 l never scratched rem
t two names, and those not for DO T
cal reasons, but in the interest of find
-sonal friends, candidates for coun- forr
offices. But Nov. 4, with con- N
ous pleasure never experienced be- nish
e in exercising the right of suffrage, the
deposited my ballot fol Grover Nor
veland and Thomas A. Hendricks. tool
eLLer in Blifu[O Courier and