Grover Cleveland
Stephan Grover Cleveland is the fifth of nine children born to Reverend Richard Falley Cleveland and Ann Neal Cleveland. He was born on March 18th of 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey, although he was raised in Fayetteville, New York. The actual house in which he was born still stands today on 207 Bloomfield Avenue. He was named in honor of Stephan Grover, a minister at a local Presbyterian Church who Reverend Cleveland had recently taken over for. Life as the
son of a minister was different than most boys. The Cleveland's spent every evening at
home in prayer. Cleveland felt that this moral upbringing was his most valuable tool
in life.
Grover Cleveland visited an uncle in Buffalo, New York, and obtained a job in a law
firm. While working there, he studied law and by May of 1859, the New York Supreme
Court admitted him to the bar. Democratic politics had interested Cleveland since
his arrival in Buffalo, so he became the county's assistant district......
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