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Document 30921

GROVER CLEVELAND
Former teacher reminds school children of their duty to country.
Autograph Statement signed: "Grover Cleveland", 1p, 4½x5. Westland, Princeton, N.J., 1899 May 26. On his personal embossed stationery. In full: "Our Country will always be in need of good men and women; and no school=boy or school=girl should forget that duty to country can only be fully performed by them, who in the days of opportunity, equip themselves with purity of heart, and cultivation of mind." Fine condition. With original stamped, postmarked 5¼x3¾ embossed envelope addressed by Cleveland to: "C.S. Haskell/Principal of Grammar School No. 2/46th St. & Third Avenue/Brooklyn/N.Y." Lightly creased. Fine condition. C.S. HASKELL was Principal of Public School 2 in Brooklyn, New York, from 1899-1904. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), son of a Yale graduate, attended the Fayetteville, New York Academy from 1848-1849. He attended the Liberal Institute from 1850-1851 and returned to the Fayetteville Academy from 1852-1853. Though he had hoped to progress through college, Cleveland's formal education ended when his father died in 1853. He became a clerk and assistant teacher in the New York Institution for the Blind in New York City; his older brother William was a teacher there. In 1870, Cleveland was appointed to the first Board of Managers for the Buffalo Normal School (now Buffalo State College). He served as Sheriff of Erie County (1871-1873), Mayor of Buffalo (1882), Governor of New York (1883-1885) and President of the United States (1885-1889, 1893-1897). After Cleveland's death in 1908, a personal friend, former Justice Morgan J. O'Brien told "The New York Times", in part: "Most of his time was spent in promoting education and philanthropy -- work which entailed sacrifices of his time and personal convenience, without fee or hope of reward beyond the desire to do that which was useful and good." Two items. Framed in the Gallery of History style: 27¾x19¾.

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