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  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' second 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. |
