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  Biography of Frances Cleveland
She was born in Buffalo, New York, only child of Emma C. Harmon and Oscar Folsom--who became a law partner of Cleveland's.
Cleveland had become one of the most popular women ever to serve as hostess for the nation.
She bore two sons while the Clevelands lived in Princeton, New Jersey, and was at her husband's side when he died at their home, "Westland," in 1908.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/fc2224.html   (422 words)

  
  Grover Cleveland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cleveland was a hard worker and was scrupulously honest at a time when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic problems in his second term.
Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey to the Rev. Richard Cleveland and Anne Neal.
In 1893, Cleveland appointed former Congressman James Henderson Blount as the Minister to Hawaii to investigate the unauthorized invasion of the Kingdom of Hawaii by U.S. Marines, which resulted in the fake revolution (aka "overthrow") against the government of Queen Liliuokalani by sugar planters and American businessmen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grover_Cleveland   (1658 words)

  
 Grover Cleveland's Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cleveland's apartments are directly across the hall from the rooms her husband occupied, but she was in the sick room most of the night watching the efforts of the three physicians to save her husband.
Cleveland, in screening from the public gaze the closing scenes of life which in a very real sense had belonged to the public, was deferring to the wishes of her dead husband, who intensely disliked ostentation and display.
Cleveland declined to permit the publication of but a few of the hundreds of messages of condolence which are reaching her from all parts of the country, but to-night she issued a statement containing the names of those who had sent them.
starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/sgc/sgcobit.html   (8134 words)

  
 Grover Cleveland - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Republicans had claimed that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was still Governor of New York, and while Cleveland never admitted or denied the rumor, he did admit to paying child support to the woman who claimed he fathered her child.
In June 1886, Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; he was the second President to be married while in office (after John Tyler), and the only President to be married in the White House.
Cleveland had an operation in which a cancerous lump on the left side of his upper lip (his cigar chewing side) was removed in a yacht in the ocean.
open-encyclopedia.com /Grover_Cleveland   (1049 words)

  
 Frances Folsom Cleveland
Frances Folsom Cleveland became Mistress of the White House at the age of twenty-two.
Frances Folsom Cleveland holds the distinction of being the first bride of a President to be married in the White House.
Frances was born Frances Folsom in 1864 to Oscar Folsom and Emma C. Harmon Folsom in Buffalo, New York.
ks.essortment.com /francefolsomcl_rcrm.htm   (594 words)

  
 Presidential Notes: First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland
While Frances was at Wells, Cleveland saw to it that her room was colorful with regularly sent flowers from the conservatories of the governor's mansion in Albany, until she graduated in June 1885.
Cleveland chuckled, and was quoted as responding, "I've been waiting for her to grow up." At the time they married, Cleveland was forty-nine.
Cleveland would take a step forward and shake hands with each and every caller, and then return to her position before saluting the next in line.
il.essortment.com /francefolsomc_rloz.htm   (571 words)

  
 Frances Folsom Cleveland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cleveland's scholarly sister Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: her bachelor brother's hostess in 15 months of his first term of office.
Cleveland had become one of the most popular women ever to serve as hostess for the nation.
She bore two sons while the Clevelands lived in Princeton, New Jersey, and was at her husband's side when he died at their home, "Westland," in 1908.
clinton3.nara.gov /WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/fc2224.html   (417 words)

  
 Biography of FRANCIS FOLSOM CLEVELAND
Frances Folsom married President Grover Cleveland when he was 49 and she almost 22.
Frances had been made the ward of Grover Cleveland following the death of her father when she was a child of eleven.
Frances died in 1947 at the age of 83.
www.multied.com /Bio/ladies/cleveland.html   (188 words)

  
 American President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Rose Cleveland had entertained both Emma and her daughter Frances at the White House, and the President's visits with the Folsoms were common knowledge.
Frances Folsom Cleveland was the first woman to marry an incumbent President in the White House.
Frances and Grover Cleveland returned to the White House in 1893 after her husband won the 1892 presidential election.
www.americanpresident.org /history/grovercleveland/firstlady/email.html   (1298 words)

  
 Frances Folsom Cleveland
Although Frances Cleveland refused to champion any particular cause (as Lucy Hayes had with temperance), she did encourage working women to attend weekly receptions on Saturdays at the White House and set a personal example of temperance (while allowing wine to be served).
Cleveland was unprecedented; only in two limited cases had the likeness of a wife of a presidential candidate been used before (a medallion of Jesse Frémont in 1856 and a poster of Lucy Hayes in 1876).
Cleveland was apparently not featured as much in the 1892 campaign, but she remained a very popular focus of press and public attention.
ah.bfn.org /h/cleve/ffc   (1420 words)

  
 USA-Presidents.Info - Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 - June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885 - 1889) and 24th (1893 - 1897) President of the United States, and the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was born in New Jersey in 1837.
Cleveland's blunt treatment of the railroad strikers stirred the pride of many Americans.
www.usa-presidents.info /cleveland.htm   (685 words)

  
 7.2. Bill Clinton vs. Grover Cleveland
Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, the son of a minister with nine children.
Cleveland was elected President of the United States in 1884, was defeated in 1888 and elected again in 1892.
Cleveland was elected in 1892, Clinton in 1992.
home.comcast.net /~sharonday7/Presidents/AP08.htm   (937 words)

  
 HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947) married the president in the White House when she was 21.
Cleveland, her father's law partner, had become her guardian when her father died, when she was 11.
Cleveland lost the 1888 election over his proposal to reduce tariffs on foreign goods, but was reelected in 1893 on a platform of economy in government--and tariff reduction.
historywired.si.edu /detail.cfm?ID=316   (511 words)

  
 Frances Folsom Cleveland
Although Frances Cleveland refused to champion any particular cause (as Lucy Hayes had with temperance), she did encourage working women to attend weekly receptions on Saturdays at the White House and set a personal example of temperance (while allowing wine to be served).
Cleveland was unprecedented; only in two limited cases had the likeness of a wife of a presidential candidate been used before (a medallion of Jesse Frémont in 1856 and a poster of Lucy Hayes in 1876).
Cleveland was apparently not featured as much in the 1892 campaign, but she remained a very popular focus of press and public attention.
freenet.buffalo.edu /bah/h/cleve/ffc/index.html   (1420 words)

  
 Frances Cleveland, First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Frances was born in Buffalo, New York of Emma and Oscar Folsom, the law partner of Grover Cleveland.
Frances plunged into her duties as First Lady and was a big hit with the Washington elite.
Cleveland's re-election in 1892 provided the opportunity for her next two children to be born in the White House, Esther in 1893 and Marion in 1895.
laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/22_24fcs.html   (218 words)

  
 FRANCES CLEVELAND
Cleveland took an interest as guardian in his widow as well as his eleven year old daughter, Frances.
During President Cleveland's first term, Frances was often mobbed by crowds, as she was considered at the time to be the Nation's most beautiful and glamorous woman.
Frances did not enjoy being a public person, and managed to stay out of the White House most of the time, with the exception of the official winter season.
www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1070.html   (488 words)

  
 Frances Cleveland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland (July 21, 1864 – October 29, 1947), wife of (22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)) Grover Cleveland, was (Click link for more info and facts about First Lady of the United States) First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897.
Frances Folsom was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Buffalo, New York) Buffalo, New York, the only child of Emma C. Harmon and Oscar Folsom—who became a law partner of Cleveland's.
She bore two sons while the Clevelands lived in (Click link for more info and facts about Princeton, New Jersey) Princeton, New Jersey, and was at her husband's side when he died at their home, "Westland," in 1908.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frances_cleveland.htm   (557 words)

  
 LIVELY ROOTS 22nd & 24th President Grover (Stephen) Cleveland-[18398]
Cleveland was the son of Richard Falley Cleveland, an itinerant Presbyterian minister, and Ann Neal.
Frances Cleveland, 27 years younger than her husband, proved to be a very popular first lady.
Cleveland believed that the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890—which required the secretary of the treasury to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver each month—had eroded confidence in the stability of the currency and was thus at the root of the nation's economic troubles.
www.livelyroots.com /gerald/18398.htm   (1532 words)

  
 July 21 - Frances Folsom Cleveland and the Baby Ruth Dispute
Frances Folsom Cleveland, the youngest First Lady, was born on this day in 1864, making her only 21 when she married Grover Cleveland in the White House on June 2, 1886.
Cleveland was not merely 27 years Frances' senior, he was also her unofficial guardian since her father's death in 1875 (her father had been Cleveland's business partner), and had bought the baby Frances her first baby carriage.
While the women's suffrage movement was in full swing, as a First Lady Frances Cleveland was purposely apolitical and uncontroversial other than for her youth, and was recognized as the most popular First Lady since Dolly Madison.
www.goatview.com /july21.htm   (469 words)

  
 First Ladies' Biographical Information
Because of the age difference between Frances and Grover, there were a flood of rumors that she was an abused wife.
Frances was more matronly, heavier and less fashionable in her second term as First Lady.
Frances’ later life was spent watching her children grow, getting involved in a needlewomen’s guild and speaking out on better education for women.
www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=23   (1324 words)

  
 American President: President Grover Cleveland
The Miller Center of Public Affairs is a national nonpartisan center to research, reflect, and report on American government, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.
In 1893, President Cleveland was diagnosed with mouth cancer.
Listen to Dr. Norman Knorr’s 1987 presentation at the Miller Center on the Psychological and Mental Aspects of Presidential Disability.
www.millercenter.virginia.edu /academic/americanpresident/cleveland   (495 words)

  
 Record: Providing a safe haven
Frances Penn Cleveland displays on her desk a framed copy of the words: "We laugh to survive." She laughs deeply and loudly, often in joy and appreciation of life's blessings and ironies.
Cleveland is chaplain for the Helena Hatch Special Care Center, where she helps provide a safe haven for women with HIV and AIDS.
Cleveland lived with her mother and grandmother, who raised her with a love of books and taught her the importance of compassion and helping others.
record.wustl.edu /web/page/normal/1615.html   (1441 words)

  
 Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Frances Folsom, on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Roomof the White House, Wash. DC.
Stephen Grover Cleveland quit school at the age of 14 to help support his family.
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), became the 22nd (Inaugurated Mar. 4, 1885) and the 24th (Inaugurated Mar. 4, 1893) President of the United States.
www.concentric.net /~pvb/GEN/presclev.html   (549 words)

  
 Back Then We'd Have Called Her, "Grover Cleveland's Wife" by Beverly Murrelle
Cleveland was his law partner, and a close member of the family.
Cleveland was Governor of New York, so he sent her flowers from the conservatories of the governor's mansion in Albany, until she graduated in June, 1885.
In 1913, Frances married a professor of archeaology, and resided with him in Princeton until she died at the age of eighty-four.
www.prose-n-poetry.com /display_work/6631   (694 words)

  
 NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides: Cleveland Family, Records, ca. 1838-1909
Stephen Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, N.J. on 18 March 1837, the fifth child of Presbyterian minister Richard Falley Cleveland and Ann Neal Cleveland.
From Albany, Cleveland went to Washington D. C., serving as the 22nd President of the United States (1885-1889) and then again as the 24th President (1893-1897).
Included in the collection is an 1838 Thanksgiving address given by Cleveland’s father in Caldwell, letters from Rev. Cleveland and his wife to their daughter Mary, a wedding announcement of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom, and several portraits of Grover Cleveland and his family.
www.state.nj.us /state/darm/links/guides/pclev001.html   (610 words)

  
 The American Presidency
Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a private White House ceremony in 1886.
Cleveland was the only president whose wedding took place in the White House, and at 21, Frances became the youngest First Lady.
There were no pictures released to the public of Frances Folsom Cleveland from her 1886 wedding to President Grover Cleveland.
americanhistory.si.edu /presidency/3a4.html   (252 words)

  
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Article or series of related articles about the arrival of President Grover Cleveland and his wife Frances Fulsom Cleveland coming to Kansas City from Omaha on a tour of Western cities in 1887, with several illustrations.
Frances Cleveland's inquiry and remorse about the injuries to people in the crowd by a runaway cable car during their visit.
Cleveland and wife in carriage at 1216 Broadway.
www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/list.cfm?list=sub&SubjectareaID=955   (363 words)

  
 Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland's law office was on the second floor to the left of the stairway.
March 18 - Grover Cleveland born in Caldwell, New Jersey, to Congregationalist minister the Reverend Richard Falen Cleveland and Anne Neal Cleveland.
Cleveland is the only person who won the popular vote for president three times.
ah.bfn.org /h/cleve/chron   (175 words)

  
 The Presidents of the United States - Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House to Frances Folsom in 1886--and the first to have a child born in the White House, in 1893.
Fast Fact: Grover Cleveland was the only President elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
Biography: The First Democrat elected after the Civil War, Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later.
www.usemb.se /usflag/presidents/gc2224.html   (642 words)

  
 HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
Twenty-one-year-old Frances Folsom Cleveland became a symbol of romance to the American public when she married Grover Cleveland in the White House on June 2, 1886.
The orange blossom garniture, commencing upon the veil in a superb coronet, is continued throughout the costume with artistic skill.
She carried no flowers and wore no jewelry except an engagement ring, containing a sapphire and two diamonds." Frances Cleveland wore her wedding gown again at a state reception on June 15 and a public reception on June 18.
historywired.si.edu /object.cfm?ID=316   (197 words)

  
 First Ladies' Biographies
Cleveland made aware of controversy surrounding authenticity of President’s signature on paper regarding national policies.
Cleveland faced and the coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Cleveland unable to attend because she was in Florida for the winter.
www.firstladies.org /bibliography/index.aspx?firstlady=23   (668 words)

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