Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . pro - coo TEPHEN GROVER CLEVE-LAND,thetvventy-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 humble 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 in the cradle ofwealth. When the subject of thissketch was three years of age, hisfather, who was a Presbyterian min-ister, with a lar
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . pro - coo TEPHEN GROVER CLEVE-LAND,thetvventy-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 humble 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 in 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 c: the Hudson River and Erie Canal, toFayetteville, in search of an increased income and alarger field of work. Fayetteville was then the moststraggling of country villages, about five miles fromPompey 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 do
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