vanced age, lacking only seventeen days of one hundred years at the time of his death. A daughter, the youngest of thirteen children, married Dr. Samuel H. Cox, whose son, Arthur Cleveland Cox, is Episcopal Bishop of Western New York.

The second son of the Congregational minister of Norwich, William Cleveland, learned the trade of silversmith, established his household in the locality known as Bean Hill, in the town of Norwich, prospered in business, held for twenty-five years the office of deacon in the church in which his father used to preach, and enjoyed the respect and confidence of his townsmen. He married Margaret Falley, and his second son, whom he named Richard Falley Cleveland, was sent to Yale College, from which he graduated in 1824.

The family tradition of the Clevelands seems to have been to equip the children for struggle with the world in the best manner possible. At least, the practice was always this: If there was not enough money for a higher education, the boys got what their parents could afford, and then were set to useful work. And the result was, as we have seen, that one after the other made his work pay for his education, and brains and hands labored together in one generation after another.

This time it was Richard Falley Cleveland, Grover Cleveland's father, who got the benefit of the college education. He was born at Norwich in 1804. One of his boyish associates was his cousin, William E. Dodge, with whom he worked in one of the Norwich factories. New York, grew rich in the iron business, membered as a philanthropist as well as successful merchants. Young Cleveland had his chance at college, and graduated from Yale with high honors at the age of nineteen.

Dodge went to and is now reone of our most

Then, as so many young graduates do, he set about earn

BIRTHPLACE OF HON. GROVER CLEVELAND, CALDWELL, N. J.

ing his first money by teaching. This took him to Baltimore, where he was engaged as tutor, and where he formed a more important engagement with Anne Neale, the daughter of a law-book publisher of that city.

The young man's attachment for Miss Neale did not, however, divert him from the main purpose of his life. He had gone to college to fit himself for the ministry, and this end must first be attained. The money earned by a year's teaching in Baltimore, enabled him to enter and pursue a course of theology at Princeton, at the conclusion of which he was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church and settled over his first charge at Windham, Connecticut. The following year-as soon, in fact, as he had become settled over his church-he returned to Baltimore and claimed the hand of Anne Neale as his bride. This was in 1829.

Perhaps in deference to the preferences of his young wife, who was a charming type of Southern woman, he sought a field of labor in that section; for we soon hear of him as settled over a pastorate in Portsmouth, Virginia.

In the mean time, children were coming to the young couple. Two daughters and two sons were born to them, when the clergyman, with his young and growing family, again changed his field of labor, going to his third pastorate in the village of Caldwell, New Jersey.

CHAPTER II.

The Birth of Grover Cleveland.-His Brothers and Sisters.-How He Got His Name.-The Congregational Parsonage at Caldwell, New Jersey. - Removal to Fayetteville, New York. — A Journey by Boat and Canal.-Life at Fayetteville.-School and College at Clinton. In a Country Store. - Removal to Holland Patent.-Death of Grover Cleveland's Father.

Here at Caldwell, as has been said, Grover Cleveland was born. He was the fifth child of his parents, whose family subsequently increased to nine.

It will be seen, by the foregoing sketch of the Cleveland family, that it was no inferior stock from which this boy sprang. As far back as the early colonial days, his ancestors were of sturdy stuff, intellectually and morally. From Aaron Cleveland, the friend of Franklin, to Richard, the father of Grover, they had been men of mind and of character, doing their lifework honorably and honestly, and making their mark in their time.

The family of children of which Grover Cleveland was one has not done discredit to their name. The oldest daughter, Anna, married Dr. Hastings, the missionary, and has accomplished a great work in the distant field of Ceylon. The eldest son, William, was educated at Hamilton College, and is now a Presbyterian minister at Forestport, New York. The youngest sister, Rose, is a lady of distinguished literary attainments, whose lectures on historical and kindred subjects are sought by educational institutions of high rank. Of the other children, the