. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . TEPHEN GROVER CLEVE-LAND, the twenty-second Pres-ident of the United States, wasborn in 1837, in the obscuretown of Caldwell, Essex Co.,N. J., and in a little two-and-a-half-story white house which is stillstanding, characteristically to markthe huinble birth-place of one ofAmericas great men in striking con-trast with the Old World, where allmen high in office must be high inorigin and born :n the cradle ofwealth. When the subject of thissketch was three years of age, hisfather, who was a Presbyte
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . TEPHEN GROVER CLEVE-LAND, the twenty-second Pres-ident of the United States, wasborn in 1837, in the obscuretown of Caldwell, Essex Co.,N. J., and in a little two-and-a-half-story white house which is stillstanding, characteristically to markthe huinble birth-place of one ofAmericas great men in striking con-trast with the Old World, where allmen high in office must be high inorigin and born :n the cradle ofwealth. When the subject of thissketch was three years of age, hisfather, who was a Presbyterian min-ister, with a large family and a small salary, moved,by way of the Hudson River and Erie Canal, toFayetteville, in search of an inceased income and alarger field of work. Fayetteville was then the moststraggling of country villages, about five miles fromPonipey Hill, where Governor Seymour was born. At the last mentioned place young Grover com-menced going to school in the good, old-fashionedway, and presumably distinguished himself after themanner of all village boys, in doing the
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