Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-24
Career of the Latest Demo-
cratic President.
RES0lUTE IN HIS AIMS
Dominated by Strong and Self
Reliant Integrity.
RARELY NEEDED COUNSEL
At War With Leaders of His Own
Party in Congress.
HAULED DOWN FLAG IN HAWAI-
Best Known for His Courage in
Maintaining the Monroe Doctrine
With the Dispute With England
Over the vsn'zYslan Bound
] ary Ling.
HAULED DOWN FLAG IN HAWAI-

= Grover Cleveland vas born in Caldwell.
kssex county. N. j.. March Is. 1887. His
father was Rev. Richard F. Cleveland, a
Presbyterian minister. q graduate OF Yale.
After he had served as pastor Of a con-
gresation In Connecticut and later in Viz
finia he As called to the church at Cald-
vel, N. j.. small town situated not far
from Newark. Rev. Mr. Cleveland mar
NED Baltimore woman, and when they
arrived at Caldwell they had four children.
GFeves vas the fifth child. He was named
Tor Rev. Stephen Grover, who had pre-
eeded his father az pastor at Caldwell. He
vAs always called Grover. however. and
the name Stephen" had almost been for
gotten. even by the best posted students
Of American political history
When Grover was about four years old
Ras father vas called to the church at
from Syracuse. There Grover grew up
Hike other boys. showing decided fond
psss fer hunting and fishing. of which
n never became tired. At the usual age
just across the street from the parsonage
was the town academy, and Grover de-
sired to attend that He was sent to the
academy at eleven years of age. being
the youngest pupil In the school. He was
hard and serious student. ranking
among the brightest. When he got to
studying he often failed to go out to play
with the other children. The hoy did not
family Of his father had increased until
there were nine children. and Rev. Mr..
Cleveland found II dificult to keep them
all. j: was decided that the older boys
in the grocery store Of one of the deacons
OF the church. He stayed In the store for
more than a year. studying at night
When Grover was about fourteen years
Int ~
becoming travelling missionary: Grover
vas allowed TO so on his first visit away
from home. 1t was to his uncle, q MT.
Allen, a well-to-do stock farmer. who
farm and the opportunities for fishing.
He returned TO his home after visit OF
six weeks. being SO short of money that
he worked his way along the canal. HIS
fathers financial circumstances having
improved, Grover was placed In the school
1t Clinton. showing vtgor and earnestness
In his work. After going through the pre-
paratory school he was not quite old
enough to enter the college. and on reeeiv-
ing an offer from the grocer at Fayette-
ville he returned to the grocery store and
began the duties SO familiar to an insti-
tuition Of that kind In those days.
Commenced the Study Of Law.
He stayed there two years. getting $50
the first year and 500 the second. He
went back to his fathers home prepared
TO enter college. but his fathers health
began to fail. and In short time he died.
The elder children of the family had al
ready gone TO work, one of the Oldest
having position in New York city teach
ing In an institution tor the blind. Grover
accountant. He stayed in the big city q
year. He sent all the money he could
spare to his widowed mother, whose
friends had bought her a little home. His
thought he would go TO some western city
to work his way up. Cleveland. Ohio. first
struck him as a good city, and he started
there. borrowing SIS from an old friend
Of his father to make the trip. He had to
- BY way OF Buffalo. and stopped of to
visit his uncle and aunt who were delight
cd TO see him. They persuaded the boy OF
eighteen to stop In BunA!o. He did SO.
putting in the first four or five months
working for his uncle. sending his money
home to his mother. His uncle found him
a. place In a law ONCE with an attorney
named Rogers but for some time Grover
.seesved no pay. For two year. he got
who charged him nothing. He walked
two miles to the city over q rough road.
allowing no kind Of weather to keep hin,
at home.
When Grover had received a slight in
crease IN his salary he rented "a small
room in the attic of a hotel, so as To be
near his work. Four years after enter :
Ing the onice he was admitted TO the
bar. He vas then twenty-five years old.
Rogers paid him 1900 a year to sta,
with him, and later increased this to
$1,000 q year. His thoroughness, honesty
and courage made Impressions, and he
soon came to the front.
Although his uncle. who took a grcat
interest In him. was q republican IN
politics. young Cleveland was indepe I'D
ent In hts views Al last he deci i,i tina I
he was better democrat than a ref ub-
licap and be San to take an interest In
politics.
The civil war came along, ana the