United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . d first to Clintonand then to Holland Patent. Atthe latter place his father died,and young Cleveland, left to hisown resources, went to New Yorkand became a teacher in a blindasylum, in which an elder brotherheld a like position. After a shorttime, however, the young man,finding such a pursuit uncongenialto his tastes, went to Buffalo andengaged in the study of law. Hewas admitted to the bar in 1859,and four years afterward beganhis public career
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . d first to Clintonand then to Holland Patent. Atthe latter place his father died,and young Cleveland, left to hisown resources, went to New Yorkand became a teacher in a blindasylum, in which an elder brotherheld a like position. After a shorttime, however, the young man,finding such a pursuit uncongenialto his tastes, went to Buffalo andengaged in the study of law. Hewas admitted to the bar in 1859,and four years afterward beganhis public career as assistant dis-trict-attorney. In 1869 he waselected sheriff of Erie County,and in 1881 was chosen mayor ofBuffalo. Mr. Clevelands next promoticiby his fellow-citizens was to^ thegovernorship of New York, to which position he was elected in 1882by the astonishing majority of 192,854—the majority being, perhaps,unparalleled in the history of American elections. It was while hestill held this office that, in July of 1884, ho was called by the Demo-cratic national convention to be the standard-bearer of his party in the©residential GROVER CLEVELAND. CLEVELANDS ADMINISTRATION. 673 The first duty of the new chief executive was to frame his interest was not a little excited with the probabilities of thePresidents choice. On the day following the inauguration the nomi-nations were sent to the Senate, and were as follows : for secretary ofstate, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware ; for secretary of the treasury,Daniel Manning, ofNew York ; for sec-retary of the interi-or, Lucius Q. C. La-mar, of Mississippi;for secretary of war,Wm. C. Endicott, ofMassachusetts ; forsecretary of the na-vy, Wm. C. Whit-ney, of New York;for postmaster-gen-eral, Wm. F. Yilas,of Wisconsin ; for at-torney-general, Au-gustus H. Garland,of Arkansas. Thepeculiarity of the ap-pointments was thattwo of them werefrom NewYork; butthe prejudice whichmight arise on thisaccount was fullycount
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