Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-07-01
GROVER CLEvELAND's CAREER
The Ex-President Assembled the Lad
der by Easy Stages.

Grover Cleveland was born in Cald
we'll, Essex county, New Jersey
March lS, 1887. On the paternal side
he is Of English origin. Moses Cleve.
land emigrated from Epswich, Suffolk
county, England, in 1885 and settled
III Woburn, Mass, where he died in
17Ol. His grandson was Aaron, whose
son Aaron was great great Grand
s--',er Vi Urover. Inc second AarOn's
son, William, was silversmith and
matchmaker at Norwich, Conn. His
son, Richard Falley Cleveland, was
graduated at Yale in 1924, was Or
dained to the Presby yterian ministry
in 1929, and in the same year married
Anne Neal, daughter of Baltimore
merchant of Irish birth. These two
were the parents of Grover Cleveland.
The Presbyterian parsonage at Cald.
well, where Cleveland was born, was
first occupied by Rev. Stephen
Grover, in whose honor the boy was
named; but the first name was early
dropped, and he has been known as
Grover Cleveland. When he was 4
years old his father accepted call to
Fayetteville, near Syracuse, N. Y,
where the son had an academy school
ing, and afterward was a clerk in a
country store. The removal of the
family to Clinton, Oneida county,
gave Grover additional educational
advantages in the academy there. In
his l7th year he became a clerk and
an assistant teacher in the New York
Institution for the Blind in New York
City, in which his elder brother,
William, an alumnus of Hamilton
College, now Presbyterian minister
at Forest Port, N. Y, was then a
teacher.
He was admitted to the bar in
Buffalo in 1859, after having served
as clerk and copyist in the office ol
Rogers. Bowen & Rogers. For three
years he remained with the firm that
first employed him, acting as manag.
ing clerk at salary of 5000 per year
He was appointed Assistant District
Attorney of Erie county in 1868 and
held office for three years. Being
obliged to support his mother he was
unable to enlist at the opening of the
war, and borrowed money with which
to pay substitute. In 1866 he was
the Democratic candidate for District
Attorney but was defeated. In 1876
he was elected Sheriff of Erie county
and served for three years. In the
autumn of 1881 he was nominated
Democratic candidate for Mayor. o
Buffalo and was elected by a large
majority. On the second day of the
Democratic State Convention al
Syracuse, September %, 1882, he was
nominated for Governor in opposition
to Charles J. Folger, then Secretary
OF the United States Treasury. He
was elected. to the office in the follow.
ing November. In July 1884. the
Democratic National Convention al
Chicago nominated Cleveland for the
Presidency, receiving 683 votes out o.
$40 on the second ballot. He was
elected on the following November in
opposition to James q. Blaine, Benja
min F. Butler and John P. st. John
In 1888 he was renominated BY the
Democrats, but was defeated by Benja
min Harrison. On. June g., 1886, hi
married Frances Folsom, daughter .oI
his deceased friend and law partner
Oscar Folsom, Of the Buffalo bar. Elk
cept the wife of Madison, Mrs. Cleve
land was the youngest of the many
mistresses of the White House, havins
been born in Buffalo, N. Y, in 1864.