Connecticut western news., 1888-06-13

Deiegate Turpie, of California, offered the name of Allen G. Thurman. Half dozen delegates seconded the nomination, and then Senator Voorhees, offered the name of Cover ton was in favor of Thurman and his nomi- nation was then niade unanimous, amid cheers and the waving ot bat1dannas.
 The Convention, at 2:10, adjourned sine die.
 Grover Cleveland.
 Grover Cleveland was born in Cald we'll, Essex County. N. J.. on March IS, 1857. His His father was Richard Falley Cleveland, a Presbyterian Clergyman, and his moth;r 2 aaHgtter If g Baltimore merchant of Irish birth, whom his fAthor married in lS29.
 Mir. Cleveland received dfl academic edu- cation at Favettevillo and Clinton, N. Y. teacher in the New York Institution for the Blind, New York City. In 1855 he went to Buffalo, secured place as clerk and copyist With tile lew, firm of Rogers Bowen x He was admitted 10 practicein 1850. He was Assistant District Attorney of Erie County for three years from January l, 1863, and was elected Sheriff of Erie County in 1870. serving a three-ye,rs term.s
 Upon retiring from that office he resumed his law practice, when the firm of Bass, Cleveland &s Bissell was formed. The firm was prosperoiis dntl Mir. Cleveland attained high rank in Western New fusk as lawyer In 1881 he was elected Mayor of Buhale by the largest majority ever given a candidate Republicans and Independents as we'll as that of the Democrats. He soon became noted as the ''veto Mayor" acquiring repu' tation which he has maintained as President.
 fin September, 1882, he was nominated for Governor of New York by the Democratic Convention at Syracuse, and in the follow Ing November was elected by plurality of i95. s54 6ter Charles J. Folger, the R'publi-
 Friday, July il, 1884. Grover Cleveland was nominated at the Chicago Conve1ttcn IS the Democratic candidate for President, on the second ballot and on the fourth day of the convention, by 6S3 votes out of total of SEQ. The nomination was, ,afterward made unanimous. ~t
 In the election the following November Mir. Cleveland received 2l9 electoral votes against 1s2 cast for Mr. Blaine. His plural E5, ,eo6 Mir Cleveland rs'eived the solid Southern electoral vote, with the votes of New York, Now Jersey, Indiana and Con. necticut added. But the election was, never. the!ess, very close, since change Of New York's thirty-six votes would havo given Blaine 2lS votes in the Electoral College to secured the State by l047 plurality out of . total vote of LII 3D.
 Mir. Cleveland was bachelor at the time 8 isse, Hss % he marr:ed at the aise House Ms: Frances Folsom, of Buffalo, the youthful daughter. of his former law partner. Mrs Cleveland succee l6d tho Presidents sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Clevelatfd, US mistress of the White House, and has gained . wide measure of popularity.
 Allen c. Thurman.
 Allen Granbcry Thurmon was born on November 13, 1913, in Lynchburg, Va, of good descent on both sides of his family. His mother was half-sister of William Al len, who became Governor of Ohio. lis paternal grandfather, who was a Baptist minister, removed to Ohio with his family, numbering t4rec genarations when Allen G. Thurman was six years old: A set clement was made in Chilicothe, where M the sns snfn Tne engaged Ed obtained a S0'ss education at the Chllicothe Academy, and was graduated with high hoiiors at the age of seventeen. After his graduation. ht. health, which. had been delicate, was per l sports by his riding about tho country as an assistant of the county tax assessor. and by outdoor work as member of land | surveying parties. Then he studied law in the offices of his uncle, William Allen, and | Judge Swayne. of Columbus, Ohio. During his period of study in the St1te capital he read law chiefly at night, as in the daytime he was acting as the private secretary of Governor l Lucas, and the duties of the posit' on includ. ed much work which would now bs assigned to a number of clerks. In 1855 he was ad mitted to the bar, and began practice in | Chilicothe as the p,rtner ot his uncle, who, | becoming engrossed in politics, soon left the | care of his law business entirely to the young man.
 srAv frx,k kch n " | ly attained distinction. In 1S45, while he was 1 absent from his Congressional district on professional business, it's Democratic Conven | ton nominated him for Congress without l was elected after personal canvass oi the whole district, in whi>h he ire | uuently had public discussions with his | Whig opponent. At the end of his term he declined a renomination,. and resumed the practice of his profession. In 1851 he ticket a Judge of the Supreme Court | of Ohio, and from 1854 till 1856 he
 was the Chief-Justice of that court. Returning to the bar in 1S56, he found busi l ness pouring in upon him from all sides, and by his professional labors he gradually ao In 1867 he received the unanimous nom'na- tion of the Democratic State Convention for Governor of Ohio, and after a hotly, con tested campaign, in which he took an active art, was defeatea ,sas y by h,,tsan Ruther was chosen United States Senator from Ohio, succeeding Ten amin F. Wale, and he was re elected in 1874. During his twelve years in the Senate he served on a number of the most important committees and was reco2- nizel as one of the ablest leaders of the Dem ocratic party. ..
 Since his retirement from the Senate, Mir
 Thurman has taken but little active part iu political affairs He has continued te practise law, appearing in court in that he had no desire to return to pubic life. As leading counsel in the prose cution of the members of h's own party who were guilty of the Columbus election frauds in 1886, he incurred the displeasure oi a faction which svmpathi-ed with tine de fendants, but gained the praise of good citi
 Zens throughout the country.