St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-30

remarkably vigorous throughout his
ties of his father.
William Cleveland, son of Aaron
Cleveland led placid. contented hon
orable life in Norwich. Conn. His bust
ness was that of a silversmith and watch
and clock maker. He was of slender
build and medium height, one of the
wiry kind of men, who seem to be proof
against fatigue and disease. In accord
ance with the custom Of his family, he
was a Jealous member of the church,
and was deacon for mary years. He
also lived to good old age, dying in
August, 1887.
Richard Fally Cleveland. the son of
William Cleveland and the father of
Grover Cleveland, resembled in many
important respects his grandfather,
Aaron. He was man of superior abil-
ity and stern piety, but he was never
very strong, and undertook more work
than his physique could stand. He be-
came pastor of the Caldwell church. in
Essex county, New Jersey. in 1884. The
labors of the mind and the spirit were
too much for the body. and Mr.. Cleye
land died in his forty-eignth year.
This, then, is the record of four gen.
erations, from Aaron Cleveland, the
the four examples in direct descent be-
came sturdy old men. All lived active
lives. 1t is notable fact that the two,
Aaron the elder, and Richard, who
died comparatively young, were con-
stitutionally feeble and lived at all
times beyond their strength. More
over, they were compelled to
struggle against poverty and had
neither the means nor the in
cllnation to take the rest and the relax
alton which nature demanded. Had
they been less conscientious, less atten-
tive to the eXactiOn of duty, as they un
derstOod it, they might have built up
their exhausted systems and prolonged
their lives. In Aaron and Richard may
be detected that bulldog pertinacity and
desire for work which have descended
to the president, characteristics
scarcely less pronounced in Will
lam and Aaron Cleveland. the sec
ond, though with less deplorable re-
suits. 1t Is not right to claim that act
I've mental work was in itself destruc-
tive, for both Aaron, tine younger, and
William were leaders of thought in the
community, and both were long-lived
and vigorous. 1t was to their advantage
that they had good physiques and
properly guarded their strength.
L0ngsL1Ved Ekranch.
The claim 10 longevity rests more
prominently with other branches of the
family than that of President Cleve-
land. The president has relatives in
Clermont county, Ohio, who have pre-.
served the family records more care
fully than the Eastern branch, and
have shown that the Clevelands have
been noted in various lines. Jeremiah
Cleveland was the brother of William
Cleveland. He went to Clermopt
county in 1915. and was joined by his
brothers Stephen and Francis. Travel,
however, did not appear to agree with
jeremiah, for, shortly after he set up
the business of clock and cabinet max
ing, he died at the age of thirty-two
leaving two SONS, Frank and Harlem.
Presley Cleveland was another son of
Rev. Aaron Cleveland. He had nine
children, one of whom, Charles, who
died in 1872, lived to be within nineteen
days of one hundred years of age. A
second son went to Texas i'll the old
Spanish time. and revisited his father
when Seventy-fve years old. He re-
marked, facetiously, that where lie lived
no one died natural death. but the
population was kept down by fatalities.
Strangely enough, lie returned to his
home. lived to be eighty-fOur years old,
and was killed i'll a railroad accident.
Abigail Cleveland, the presidents aunt,
married the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox,
and her son is Bishop Arthur Cleve-
land Cox. She lived to all advanced
age. Her sister, Susan, who married 4
Mr.. Pratt, reached the aye of eighty
five.
Other branches of the family show
that the Cleveland inheritance is likely
TO be that of hale and hearty old age,
and that. except Ill the cases of unfore
seen calamity, as evidenced in the
presidents own family, the chances in
the way of heredity are favorable to the
president. He has only to accept the
warning conveyed by the early deaths
of his father and great-great-grand
father, to husband his strength and pay
regard to the laws of nature. The
ClevelandS from colonial times have been
hard workers. but hard work does not
necessarily kill, as the records of our
industrious ancestors constantly show.
IZaak Walton, who will he unheSitat
ingly accepted Dy Mr.. Cleveland as the
very best authority, said nearly three
centuries ago: Health is the second
blessing that we mOrtalS are capable; a
blessing that money cannot buy" And
added: "All that are lovers of virtue, be
quiet and go a-anglng."
lzaak, by the way, lived to be ninety
wears old,