Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-24

1hEOOOHE ROOSEt ELL.
Grover Cleveland. twenty-second
president of the United States and
the only democratic occupant OF the
White House since, the Civil war,
was born in Caldwell, Essex county,
New Jersey, March 49,, 1897. On
the paternal side he was of English
origin. Moses Cleveland emigrated
from Ipswich, county of Suffolk.
England. in 1885, and settled at
Woburn, Mass, where he died III
1901. His grandson was Aaron
whose son, Aaron, was great-great-
of Grover. Grover
Clevelands father was Presby-
terian clergyman. who, in 1929,
Anne Neal, daughter of
Baltimore merchant of Irish birth.
When Grover was years old his
father accepted call to Fayetce
vile, near Syracuse, N. Y, where
the son had an academy schooling
and afterwards was 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 18th year he became a clerk
and assistant teacher in the New
ork institution for the blind in New
York city, in which his elder broth
err, William, was then a teacher. In
1855 Grover left New York to go to
the West in search Of employment.
On his way he stopped at Blackfoot.
now part Of Buffalo. and called on
his uncle. William F. Allen, who
induced him to remain and aid him
in the compilation of volume of
the american Herd Book" He
afterward assisted In the prepara-
ton of several other volumes Of this
work. In August, 1855, he secured
a place as clerk and copyist of the
law fir moi Rogers, Bowen & Rog-
ers, in Buffalo, began to read
and in the autumn Of
that year was receiving 81 week
for his work He was admitted to
the bar in 1859. but for three years
longer he remained with the firm
that first employed him, acting as
managing clerk at salary of $1,000
part Of which he devoted to the
support of his widowed mother, who
died in 1882.
He was appointed assistant dis
trict attorney of Erie county in
1863, and held the Office for three
years. At this time strenuous ef-
forts were being made 70 bring the
Civil war to a close Two of Cleve-
lands brothers were in the army,
and his mother and sister were de-
pendent largely upon him for sup
port. Unable. to enlist, he borrow-
ed money to send a substitute, and
It was not until long after the war
that he was able to repay the loan.
In 1865, at the age of %. he was
the democratic candidate for dis
trict attorney, but was defeated by
the republican candidate, his inti-
mate friend, Lyman X. Bass. He
then became law partner of Isaac
v. Vanderpool, and in 1869 became
member Of the firm of tanning,
Cleveland & Folsom. He continued
successful practice until 1870,
when he was elected sheriff of Erie
county. At the expiration Of his
three-year term he formed a law
partnership with his personal friend
and political antagonist, LYMAN X.
Bass, the firm being Bass. Cleveland
& BiBssell. and. after the forced re-
tirement from failing health Of Mr..
Bass, the firm name was changed to
Cleveland & Bissell The firm was
prosperous, and Cleveland attained
high rank as lawyer. noted for
the simplicity and directness OF his
logic and expression and thorough
mastery of his cases.
In the autumn of 1881 he was
nominated democratic candidate for
mayor of Buffalo. and was elected
by a majority of $3.50. the largest
ever given to candidate in that
city. In the same election a repub-
lican state ticket was carried In
buffalo bv an average majority Of
over 1900, but Cleveland had I'M
partial republican. independent and
reform movement support. He soor
became known as the "veto mayor.
using that prerogative fearlessly In
checking public expenditures thai
he deemed unwise, illegal or extrav'
agapt. The reformed methods Of
administering the city's affairs In
stituted by him while mayor led tt
| his election in the following year al
governor of the state of New oYri
bv a majority of $4,000 votes ovel
his opponent, Judge Folger, the re-
! rooratory nf tho limited