THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF GROVER CLEVELAND, NOMINATED BY THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER I. HIS BIRTH AND PARENTAGE-HIS FATHER A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER-THE HOUSE WHERE HE WAS BORNHIS RELATIVES--HE FINDS EMPLOYMENT IN A COUNTRY STORE-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY HIS EMPLOYER-HE ATTENDS THE ACADEMY AT Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y.-TEACHES IN AN ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND-HE GOES TO BUFFALO, N. Y.-CLERK AND LAW STUDENTA SELF-MADE MAN-ADMITTED TO THE BAR-ASSISTANT DISTRICT-ATTORNEY FOR ERIE COUNTY--NOMINATED FOR DISTRICT-ATTORNEY. THE Hon. Grover Cleveland, Governor of the great State of New York, who is presented to the voters of the different States of the Union by the National Democratic Convention, which met at Chicago on the 8th day of July, 1884, as its candidate for the high office of President of the United States, was born at Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, now a town of 2,700 inhabitants, about nine miles from Newark, on the 18th day of March, 1837. He is a descendant of a New Eng THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF GROVER CLEVELAND, NOMINATED BY THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER I. HIS BIRTH AND PARENTAGE-HIS FATHER A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER-THE HOUSE WHERE HE WAS BORNHIS RELATIVES-HE FINDS EMPLOYMENT IN A COUNTRY STORE-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY HIS EMPLOYER-HE ATTENDS THE ACADEMY At Clinton, Oneida CounTY, N. Y.-TEACHES IN AN ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND-HE GOES TO BUFFALO, N. Y.-CLERK AND LAW STUDENT— A SELF-MADE MAN-ADMITTED TO THE BAR-ASSISTANT DISTRICT-ATTORNEY FOR ERIE COUNTY -- NOMINATED FOR DISTRICT-ATTORNEY. THE Hon. Grover Cleveland, Governor of the great State of New York, who is presented to the voters of the different States of the Union by the National Democratic Convention, which met at Chicago on the 8th day of July, 1884, as its candidate for the high office of President of the United States, was born at Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, now a town of 2,700 inhabitants, about nine miles from Newark, on the 18th day of March, 1837. He is a descendant of a New Eng |