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THE LIFE OF GROVER CLEVELAND.

Democratic Candidate for President.

Richard Falley Cleveland, third son of William Cleveland, and father of Grover Cleve

land, was born in Norwich, Conn., June 19, 1804, and after graduating with high honors from Yale College in 1824, went to Baltimore, where he fell in love with Anne Neale, the daughter of a prosperous publisher, of Irish extraction. He

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He soon after entered Princeton Theological Seminary, after a three years' course, he received a call to a church at Windham, Conn., which he accepted, and then hastened to Baltimore where he was married to Anne Neale in 1829. His second trust was in Portsmouth, Va., and in little over a year, in the fall of 1834, he accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at Caldwell, near Newark, N. J.

Richard and Anne Cleveland had nine children, as follows: Anna (Mrs. Dr. Hastings), born in 1830; William N., born in 1832; Mary (Mrs. W. E. Hoyt), 1833;

THE LIFE OF GROVER CLEVELAND.

Democratic Candidate for President.

Richard Falley Cleveland, third son of William Cleveland, and

father of Grover Cleveland, was born in Norwich, Conn., June 19, 1804, and after graduating with high honors from Yale College in 1824, went to Baltimore, where he fell in love with Anne Neale, the daughter of a prosperous publisher, of Irish extraction. He

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He soon after entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and after a three years' course, he received a call to a church at Windham, Conn., which he accepted, and then hastened to Baltimore where he was married to Anne Neale in 1829. His second trust was in Portsmouth, Va., and in little over a year, in the fall of 1834, he accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at Caldwell, near Newark, N. J.

Richard and Anne Cleveland had nine children, as follows: Anna (Mrs. Dr. Hastings), born in 1830; William N., born in 1832; Mary (Mrs, W. E. Hoyt), 1833;

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