A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [175]
77. Cleveland decorated his suite of rooms, Nevins, 66.
77. “fondness for children,” Barnum, 82.
78. “Uncle Jumbo,” Nevins, 66.
79. “I want you to know that I practice,” ibid., 70.
79. “Grant’s re-elected, and the country’s gone to hell,” Lynch, 66.
80. “very pleasing in appearance” Stephen F. Robar, Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland (New York: Nova History Publications, 2004), 2–4.
82. The Tifft House on Main Street: George M. Bailey, Illustrated Buffalo, the Queen City of the Lakes (Buffalo: Acme Publishing and Engraving Co., 1890), 226; Buffalo Express, 21 May 1903.
82. He was “persistent,” and “urging”: Halpin Affidavit.
83. “He told me that he was determined to ruin me. Ibid.
84. Julie Dow was riding a horse: The author is indebted to the work of the historian Mary R. Block and her PhD dissertation, An Accusation Easily to be Made: A History of Rape Law in Nineteenth Century America (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2001)
84. a woman of “easy virtue,” ibid., 28–30 (People v. Brown).
85. “did not earnestly resist it,” ibid., 75.
85. “ultimately yielded,” ibid., 123–124 (State v. Hartigan).
86. “fullest extent of her abilities,” ibid., 15.
87. “he being the proper person to whom I could tell my trouble,” Halpin Affidavit.
87. “What the devil are you blubbering about?” Chicago Tribune, 30 and 31 October 1884.
87. “told me that he would do everything which was honorable,” Halpin Affidavit.
88. “Was she there at Mr. Cleveland’s expense?” Chicago Tribune, 30 July 1884.
89. “I cannot ask your love in advance,” Buffalo Democrat & Chronicle 11 April 1872 (Avery is sometimes spelled Arey.)
90. “I do not wish to palliate his offense: Boston Daily Globe, 31 October 1884. Avery is apparently quoted but goes unnamed in the article.
90. “Mr. Cleveland wanted him to have that name,” Chicago Tribune, 30 July 1884, quoting Boston Journal interview with Maria Baker.
91–95. “I don’t want to take it,” ibid., 1 October 1884, interview with Sarah Kendall. Author’s note: Some of the quotes from the 1884 interview have been put in the present tense for purposes of the narrative.
5. THE ORPHAN
96–98. It was a Friday afternoon, July 23, 1875: account of Folsom’s death from Buffalo Commercial Advertiser and Buffalo Morning Express, 24 July 1875.
98. The adolescent Frances, who was considered to be too young. Robar, 5.
100. Marriage was the “only step possible: Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 21 July, 1884.
100. “After the birth of her child she led a blameless life. Ibid.
101. Byrne was born in Ireland and came to America: New York Times, 27 May 1879; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 30 December 1909.
104. Received from MB Halpin: Buffalo Orphan Asylum records, courtesy Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Archives, C821–1.
105. “Thoroughly cleaned,” Mrs. M. L. Hopkins, Charities in Western New York: A Record of Examinations, 1893, 23. Author’s note: No record exists of Oscar Folsom Cleveland’s specific experience at the orphanage. This description is based on state inspection reports from the era.
106. “Poor and shiftless,” ibid., 21.
107. Overcrowding was a serious problem: Buffalo Express, 23 May 1909.
108. “Stolen by M. B. Halpin—mother,” Buffalo Orphan Asylum records, vol. III, Admissions and Departures, 4 January 1875–20 March 1882. Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, C82–1.
109. Because of her purported alcoholism, he informed Level. Lynch, 70.
109. Level, forty-three, liked to boast: Buffalo Times, 1 March 1925; 25 February 1925.
109. “Attendant publicity,” Lynch, 70.
110. Detective Watts “surreptitiously” broke into the apartment: Buffalo Evening Telegraph: 21 July 1884.
110. evidence that Oscar was being neglected was “not lacking,” Lynch, 70.
110. “It was a hell of a time,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 21 July1884.
111. There she was registered as patient No. 1050: Register, Providence Lunatic Asylum, History of Patients, Sept. 23, 1861–Jan. 13, 1897, 35.
111. “A peculiar form of insanity,” George W. Field, Field’s Medico-Legal