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Document 4727
GROVER CLEVELAND. Early Partly Printed ADS
(twice): "S. Grover Cleveland", 1p, 6x8. Buffalo, 1856 March
11. In the case of The Michigan Southern Rail Road Company against Ansel R.
Cobb & Nelson Willard, 18-year-old Stephen Grover Cleveland
swears, in full: "S. Grover Cleveland of the City of Buffalo
being duly sworn says, that on the fifth of February 1856 at the City of Buffalo
in the County of Erie he served a copy of the annexed summons upon Ansel R. Cobb
one of the defendants in the action, by delivering the same to, and leaving the
same with, the said defendant personally. And this deponent further says that he
knew the person so served, to be the person mentioned and described in the said
summons as one of the defendants therein." Both Cleveland signatures are
on the same page. Attached to this document are related documents. The three
sheets are attached at top with glue and green string. Two of the accompanying
documents bear the pre-printed law firm name "Bowen & Rogers/Plaintiff's
Attorneys"; the third is signed: "Dennis Bowen/Plff Atty". The
future 22nd and 24th U.S. President had planned to settle in Cleveland,
Ohio because of its name. However, after stopping in Buffalo, New York to
visit his mother's uncle, Stephen Grover Cleveland worked for him for six months
and decided to become a lawyer. Before being admitted to the bar in 1859,
Cleveland worked as a clerk in the law office of Bowen & Rogers and studied
there. He filled out and signed the document offered here with his rare, early
signature: "S. Grover Cleveland". He dropped the "S." shortly
thereafter. ½-inch diameter seal affixed. Lightly creased, lightly stained
at top edges from ribbon. Slight separation at folds. Overall, fine
condition.
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