Grover Cleveland - Table of Contents
Grover
Cleveland - Table of Contents
Grover
Cleveland
- A Chronology
TEXT Beneath Illustrations
 Source: Buffalo City Hall Mayors collection  The Weed Block, Swan and Main, built 1857, torn down 1901 for erection of Fidelity Trust Building. Grover Cleveland's law office was on the second floor to the left of the stairway. Source: The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo, Frank H. Severance, ed. Pub. by the Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 152  Source: The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo, Frank H. Severance, ed. Pub. by the Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 150  September 2021 photo Plaque on Fidelity Trust Building  By Bryant Baker Location: Buffalo City Hall  Frances Folsom Cleveland Source: Mark D. Evans Collection  3 of the 5 Cleveland children. Print courtesy of Gothic City Architectural Antiques  A. G. Thurman ran as Cleveland's vice-president in 1888. They were defeated. Source: On display at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum in January 2005  Source: Buffalo Presidential Center  Stevenson served as Cleveland's vice-president in Cleveland's second term (1893-1897). Source: On display at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum in January 2005  Stevenson served as Cleveland's vice-president in Cleveland's second term (1893-1897) Source: On display at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum in January 2005 |
|
1837 |
March 18 - Grover Cleveland born in Caldwell, New Jersey, to Congregationalist minister the Reverend Richard Falen Cleveland and Anne Neal Cleveland. |
| 1855 |
Arrived
in Buffalo on April 12 and lived with his uncle, Lewis F.
Allen at 1192 Niagara St., for six months. (His
aunt was Margaret Cleveland, 1801-1880) |
| 1856-61 |
Boarded
at 11 Oak St. |
|
1859 |
Admitted to the bar |
|
1862 |
Avoids
the Civil War draft by paying $500 to a recently arrived
Polish immigrant Boarded at 29 Swan St. in 1862-63 |
| 1866 |
With
law firm Vanderpoel & Co. over the Old
Post
Office |
| 1867 |
Law
office in Hollister Block |
| 1868 | Rooming
at United States Hotel, Pearl corner Terrace |
| 1869 |
Rooming
at Pearl Street corner Swan |
|
1870 |
Elected Sheriff of Erie County |
|
1870 |
Appointed
to the first Board of Managers of the State Normal School at
Buffalo Boarding at 22 W. Seneca |
|
1872 |
As Sheriff, he personally springs the trap on two convicted murderers. |
| 1871-72 |
Boarding
at 51 Niagara |
| 1873 |
Home,
Room "F" Weed Block, 2nd floor; his office was also here |
|
1881 |
Elected Mayor of Buffalo. (1882-1883) |
|
1882 |
Elected Governor of New York (1883-1885) |
|
1883 |
Gov.
Cleveland signs a bill authorizing what will become the
Niagara Reservation In Albany |
|
1884 |
Elected
22nd President of the U. S. (1885-1889) Thomas A. Hendricks, V-P |
|
1886 |
June 2, marries Frances Folsom |
|
1888 |
Based
on electoral votes, Benjamin Harrison defeats Grover
Cleveland who wins the popular vote. Cleveland is the only
person who won the popular vote for president three times. Cleveland's running mate as V-P is A. G. Thurman |
|
1891 |
Clevelands'
first child born: Ruth (1891-1904) According to the National Confectioner's Association, the Baby Ruth candy bar was named for Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth - although she died in 1904, and the candy was not manufactured until 1920, by the Curtiss Candy Company in Chicago. |
|
1892 |
Elected
24th President of the U. S. (1893-1897) Adlai E. Stevenson, V-P |
|
1893 |
Clevelands' second child born: Esther (1893-1980) |
|
1895 |
Clevelands' third child born: Marion (1895-1977) |
|
1897 |
Clevelands' fourth child born: Richard Folsom (1897-1974) |
|
1903 |
Clevelands' fifth child born: Francis (1903-1995) |
|
1908 |
Dies, June 24 in Princeton, N.J. |
