The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-07-09
GROVER CLEVELAND.

was twice elected.
The entire nation is III real
sorrow that the career Of such
a man should be ended on earth
forever.
Few men have figured IN the
history Of this country who
have left 8 more positive i'm
press upon the people, and Ger
tainly none has done SO simply
as the Chief Executive Of the
nation. He Was indeed a great
man, and while many thous-
ands OF his fellow citizens III
his own political party differed
from his views, all had great
regard for his sturdiness of
character, his common sense
and rare political wisdom.
Whenever Mr.. Cleveland put
his pen to paper the citiZenry
Of this country read with great
interest what he had to say;
aud the people of other coun-
tries also paid heed to his wis
dom.
For a year his health had not
been good, and while his death
was shock, it was not alto
gether a surprise.
For a quarter of a century
Grover Cleveland has been a
prominent personality in the
political interests Of this cOun-
try, and the two terms of his
administration as President
will make immortal pages OF
our country's history.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
The following appeared in
the News and Observer the day
after his death:
"Grover Cleveland, three
times the candidate OF the
Democratic party for the Presi-
dency, and twice the President
of the United States, was seven,
ty-one years, three months anc
six days old when he died, hav
ing been born on the 18th Of
March, 1897, i'll Caldwell, Els
sex county, n. j.
lon his fathers side he was
Of English origin. His great
grandfather, Moses Cleveland
enigrated from Ipswich, Coun
ty OF Suffolk. England, IN 1895
and settled at Woburn, Mass.
where he died in 1907. His De
scendant, William Cleveland
was = s1lvcrsinith and watch
maker al Norwich, Conn, anC
! Richard f'alloy Cleveland, lis
son, was graduated at Yale il
1921, ordained to the Pl'esby
torian ministry in 1929 and il
the same year married Miss
Ann Neal, daughter Of : Bl.ti
more merchant Of Irish birth
these two being tne parents OF
Grover Cleveland.
THE Presbyterian parsonage
in which young Cleveland was
born had been first occupied BY
Rev. Stephen Grover, ia whose
honor he was named, but thf
Stephen part OF it was dropped
and he was known as Grove
/ Cleveland. When he was -four
years old his father took charge
OF the Presbyterian church al
Fayetteville, near Syracuse
| New York where Grover Cleve
land had a common and acade
mic education and afterwards
clerked in a country store. The
family removed to Clinton, n
Y, and he received additional
educational advantages in til,
academy there. In his seven
teenth year he became a clerl
and an assistant teacher in tn,
New York Institution for the
Blind in New York city il
which his elder brother, Will
liam, a Presbyterian clergyman
was then a teacher.
''1n 1866 he started West t,
seek employment, but on hi
way he stopped at Black Rock
now a part of Buffalo wher;
his uncle, Lewis T. Allen, in
duced him to remain, and all
in the compilation of volum
on the American Herd Book
For his six weeks service b,
was paid $50, and afterwards
while studying law, assisted i,
compiling other volumes of tn,
work, and in the preface to tn,
fifth volume, issued in 1861
acknowledgment is made 0
his services. in August 1855
he secured a place Is clerk ans
copyist in the law firm G
Rogers, Bowen e Rogers. il
Buffalo, began to read Black
stone, and in the autumn o
that year was receiving 81
week. In 1859 he was admit