A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [173]
PROLOGUE
3. The child was born on September 14, 1874, United States Federal Census, 1880; Buffalo, New York. The census approximates the year of the child’s birth as 1875. Later census records (see 1900 Census) clarify James E. King Jr.’s date of birth as September 1874.
4. The baby had a “sore” on the top of his head: Account of Minnie Kendall, Chicago Tribune, “Maria Halpin’s Terrible Experience Related By Her Child’s Nurse,” 1 October 1884.
6. “Yes, it does look like its father,” Ibid.
1. BUFFALO
7. “I am kind of fooling away my time here,” Grover Cleveland (GC) to Mary Cleveland Hoyt, undated, winter 1853–1854, Allan Nevins, ed., Letters of Grover Cleveland (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933), 3–4. Hereafter Nevins, Letters.
8. “like an inspiration,” Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.,1958 edition), 27.
8. “It’s just the place for a young man to establish himself in,” New York Times, 24 January 1892.
9. “I was attracted by the name,” Denis Tilden Lynch, Grover Cleveland: A Man Four-Square (New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1932), 31.
10. “my start in life,” GC to Ingham Townsend, 23 January 1867, Nevins, Letters, 10.
11. “proper location for me,” Richard Cleveland to Dr. A. B. Cleveland, 12 October 1841, Cleveland Papers, Library of Congress.
11. “His modesty killed him,” Nevins, 13.
12. not a “single friend or acquaintance,” Letter to editor from Lewis Allen to Buffalo Courier, 14 July 1884.
13. he came close to losing two fingers: GC to Mary Cleveland Hoyt, 29 October 1850, Nevins, Letters, 9.
14. The two-story Allen house, constructed of stone: Charles H. Armitage, Grover Cleveland as Buffalo Knew Him (Buffalo: Buffalo Evening News, 1926, Kessinger Publishing Edition), 4.
14. “Who’s the new fellow?” Ibid, 2–3; 7.
16. “high-spirited boy,” Armitage, 15.
17. Lewis Allen was probably Buffalo’s leading citizen, Nevins, 32–33.
18. Grover was trapped inside (Author’s note: This incident is murky. Some books say Cleveland was locked out only during lunch hour (Nevins, 36); Armitage says it happened overnight.
19. “Pay him what they could afford,” Armitage, 15.
19. “very satisfactory,” GC to Mary Cleveland Hoyt, 18 October 1855, Nevins, Letters, 4–5.
20. pocket was feeling “light,” Ibid, 14 November 1855, 5.
20. “though sometimes I find it pretty hard,” Ibid, 31 December 1855, 6–7.
21. “I am so ashamed of myself after allowing such a swindle,” Ibid, 14 February 1856, 8; 1 January 1858, 8–9.
22. “The truth is I have a great deal to do nowadays,” Ibid, 27 May 1858, 20.
23. “Politically, we differed,” New York Times, 24 April 1887.
24. “sad in the eye,” Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 18 February 1861.
24. “You must save the Union,” Buffalo Courier, 18 February 1861.
25. “lukewarm,” Nevins, 48.
25. even Grover Cleveland said that was a myth, ibid, 50.
25. behind drum and bugle, ibid, 47.
27. “I have my man,” Buffalo Democrat and Chronicle, 3 September 1884. Author’s note: The spelling of Cleveland’s substitute has been spelled in various ways, including Benninsky and Brinske. The spelling of Biniski is from Army records.
28. “I told him if he would . . . help me out if I came out alive: Buffalo Sunday Times interview with Beniski, 10 July 1887.
29. “The terms . . . were distinctly repeated by me: GC to John E. Hale, 13 September 1887, Nevins, Letters, 52.
30. “frightfully filthy,” Testimony of Dr. George W. Edwards, U.S. Army surgeon, 6 June 1864.
31. Beniski’s medical records show: Application for pension signed by Beniski (with his mark, the letter X) 3 June 1886, National Archives and Records, Pension no. 561–108.
2. THE BACHELOR
32. Hovenden gave chase, Brooklyn Eagle, 16 November 1858.
33. The Halpins had immigrated to the United States in 1842, William Spohn Baker, American Engravers and Their Works (Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1875), 79.
33. “Is that all?” Fletcher Harper paid the bill, The Dial, 1912 (The Dial was a literary review published in Chicago; the incident involving Fletcher Harper and Frederick Halpin