Show OUR NEXT PRESIDENT stephen grover cleveland wilb by all appearances will be our next president is of new E england I 1 origin g n his great grandfather grand fattier aaron A cleveland born february jtb 1744 in east haddam conn car ried ou on business as a hatmaker hat maker in norwich forthe for the greater part of an ae active tive life he waa was a stanch antislavery republican and introduced in into to the connecticut legislature the first bill to abolish slavery he ira died in new haven in 1815 richard falling cleveland the governors father was graduated from yale in 1824 and entered the ministry y at baltimore whore where be he married a daughter of Abner Neal there were jinxi children of t thia his marriage of whom the present governor of new york was the fifth the little village tillage of caldwell in E eidex esex county NJ N J a few miles mies southwest from paterson Pate raon was stephen grover Clev elands birth place the house where ho was born is 13 still standing when young cleveland wa was three years old the family removed to F fayetteville ayette ville in onondaga county N Y here the bay boy jat attended tended the village school when he was 14 years old lie be oame very very eager to be sent to some academy but his father being a country clergyman with a large family and a small income felt unable to meet such an ex expense pente ac cr the future governor of new ne W i york yo rk began life BO so to speak in ia a country store at 50 for the first year upon the death of his father young cleveland turned toward the city of new york to beek his fortune for two years be taught there in the asylum for the blind and then went to buffalo the home of hii hi uncle allan it waa ww Clev Cleveland elands 8 wish to study law by persistent effort lie abs tamed from iho the firm of rog rogers cra brown k rogers rogera a place as office bay with bermis permission ion to use the law library he was was paid a few dollars ft a week for bis his serviced services out of this t anty sum he had bad to board and a 0 ithe himself the walk to and from his uncles was a IOD longone 9 one an and d th the young clerks first winter wag was memorably severe after hia years of patient study hot heas admitted to the bar but re 4 4 named with tho the firm to perfect himself in hi hs ts profession at the ige of twenty was made As district attorney for erie county and obtained a field for displaying hia his real legal ability his popularity was wits such that in 1865 he waa was nominated for district attorney and wed was beaten by a mall small major majority liy he then began practice in connection with J V but in 1870 accepted the nomi nomination Dation for sheriff of erie count county and wai elected after the close of his term he lie resumed practice and had gad won tho the confidence of a large bly of clients in the beet best commercial end ond fun fint a cial position buffalo had bad suffered from muni cipal misgovernment mia government and in 1881 mr cleveland was proposed as a reform candidate buffalo is usually republican by from 2000 to majority and mr Clev elands election on the democratic ticket by a majority of was simply a sl tribute to his hi personal popularity and personal integrity hia his career as mayor gave him a IL reputation for official integrity that spread over the state ho he was soon talked of as an available candidate for governor and even for president in september 1882 be he received the gubernatorial romi nation ho ile received a full democratic vote and in in addition the ballots of numbers of discontented republicans who had become heartily weary of the rule of machine politicians cleve lands majority as governor was nearly this unexampled success made it dear clear that he be would be brought forward at the next national convention as a cau candidate didato for the pre presidency THE 8 in abi which the ladi ladies es we are most interested the return of the recalcitrant husband from posting the books booke |