Contest Of 1888: Lives of the Candidates, Election Statistics and Party Platforms, Also, Tariff Discussions; President Cleveland's Message, and Reply by Hon. James G. Blaine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Contest of 1888: Lives of the Candidates, Election Statistics and Party Platforms, Also, Tariff Discussions; President Cleveland's Message, and Reply by Hon. James G. Blaine

Richard Cecil, 1835; Stephen Grover, 1837; Margaret (mrs. N. B. Bacon), 1838; Lewis Frederick, 1841; Susan (mrs. L'. Yeomans), 1843; Rose E. (unmarried), 1846. All the children are living, except two who were burned at sea. The father of Richard Falley Cleveland was William Cleveland, whose father was the Rev. Dr. Aaron Cleveland, great grandfather of Grover Cleveland, and a graduate of Harvard College, afterwards ordained a clergyman of the Episcopal church. The Cleveland ancestry date their set tlement in this country to 1636, when Moses Cleveland, of Ipswich, county of Suffolk, England, settled in Woburn, Massachusetts. The family is noted for its piety and relig ious zeal, having had distinguished representatives in the clerical profession for many generations.

Grover Cleveland was born March 18, 1837, in New Jersey, and named Stephen Grover in honor of Rev. Stephen Grover whom his father had succeeded. The name of Stephen was so seldom used that he never became accus tomed to it, and before he became of age he ceased altogether to use it and signed his name simply Grover Cleveland.

In 1840, when Grover was nearly four years Old, his father accepted a call from the Presbyterian Church of Fayette ville, New York. The trip from New Jersey to central New York, in those days, was much more of an undertak ing than it is today; about ten days were occupied in reaching Fayetteville, the home of the future president. The tired parents, while passing through Albany, little thought that their four years old son would one day be a future Governor.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.