The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-07-02
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Brief sketches fthe Lives Of Grover Cleve-
land aud Adial E. stevenson.
Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second
President of the United States, was
born in Caldwell, Essex county, n. j.,
March IS, 1897, but on the paternal
side he is of English origin. His father,
Richard Falley Cleveland, graduated
at Yale College in 1929, and the same
year married Anne Neal, the daughter
of Baltimore merchant Of Irish birth.
The Presbyterian parsonage at Cald-
well, where the future President was
born, was first occupied by the Rev.
stephen Grover, in whose honor he
was named, but the first name was
clearly dropped, and he has been
known from his boyhood as Grover
Cleveland. When he was years old
his father accepted a call TO Favetts-
vile, near Syracuse, where Grover had
an academy schooling, and afterward
was a clerk in country store. The
removal of the family TO Clinton,
Oneida county, gave Grover additional
educational advantages. In his 18th
year he became a clerk and an assist
ant teacher in the New York Institu-
ton for the Blind in New York city; in
which his elder brother William was
then a teacher. In 1865 Grover started
from Holland Patent, in Oneida coun-
| ty, where his mother then resided, to
go West in search Of employment. On
the way he stopped at Black Rock, now
a part OF Buffalo, and called on his
uncle, Lewis T.. Allen, who induced
him to remain and assist him in the
compilation of volume of the "Amer-
lean Herd Book" receiving for six
weeks service $50.
In August, 1855, he secured place
as clerk and copyist for the law firm of
Rogers, Bowen * Rogers, in Buffalo,
began the study of law and in the au-
tumn of that year was receiving "a a
week for his work. Admitted to the bar
in 1859, but remained three years long
er with the Rogers firm. He was ap-
pointed Assistant District Attorney of
Erie county January l, 1863, and held
the office for three years. In 1865, at
the age of 2S, he was the Democratic
candidate for District Attorney, but
was beaten by the Republican candi-
date, his intimate friend, Lyman X.
Bass. Mr.. Cleveland then became a
law partner of Ex-State Treasurer
Isaac V. Vanderpool and continued a
successful practice till 1870 when he
was elected Sheriff of Erie county. In
1873 he formed law partnership with
Lyman X. Bass, the firm being Bass,
Cleveland & Bissell, and later Mr.. Bass
retired. The firm was prosperous and
Mr.. Cleveland attained high rank as a
lawyer, noted for the simplicity and
directness of his logic and expression.
In the autumn of 1881 he was nomi-
mated Democratic candidate for Mayor
of Buffalo and was elected by $3.50
majority, the largest ever given. The
same year the Republican State ticket
had 600 majority in Buffalo. He soon
became known as the "Veto Mayor
saving the city 100000 in the first six
months of his term by setting aside
eXtravagant appropriations. On the
second day of the State Democratic
Convention, at Syracuse, September
%, 1882, on the third ballot, by vote
of 211 out of 3S2, Mr.. Cleveland was
nominated for Governor in opposition
to Charles j. Folger, then Secretary Of
the Treasury. In a total vote of 9ls,-
S9i Cleveland received a plurality of
1928 over Folger and a majority over
all of 15l, ,742. On the last day of De-
cember he went to Albany, and Janu-
ary l, 1888, dispensing with the usual
parade, he walked with a friend through
the streets from the Executive Man
sion to the Capital and took the oath
of the office.
The National Democratic Conven-
ton met at Chicago, July 8, 1884. In
the evening OF July 10 a vote was
taken, in which, out of $40 votes,
Grover Cleveland received 3s2, A two
third vote, 557, was necessary to a
nomination. July IL, in the morning,
on the first ballot-the second for the
convention-he received 6s3 votes. In
the election following Mr. CleYeland
had 2l9 votes in the Electoral College
to 1872 for James q. Blaine, and on the
popular vote had 4,S74,9s6 Democratic
to 1851 ,9Sl Republican. His admins
tration was remarkable in many re
spects, his message to Congress in
December, 1887, devoted exclusively to
tariff reform, providing the issue and
platform of the Democratic party in
1888, the National Convention at st.
Louis renominating him unanimously
for President, He was defeated by
Benjamin Harrison, who had 233 votes
in the Electoral College to 16s for Mr..
Cleveland. On the aggregate popular
vote the Democrats cast 1854, ,l6S, and
the Republicans, 5,437, ,5s2.