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also opened a window, albeit a small one. He claims that in 1895, Maria Halpin made a crude attempt at blackmail in a letter she addressed to President Cleveland at the White House. She demanded money from Cleveland, Nevins says, and threatened to “publish facts in her possession” unless she was paid off. Nevins cites a date for this letter—September 9, 1895—which he says can be found in the collection of Grover Cleveland’s presidential papers in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has no record of such a letter. One can only presume that Frances Cleveland, or someone acting on her behalf, removed Maria Halpin’s letter before consigning the Cleveland Papers to the Library of Congress in 1923. One can also wonder whether it was the only item to have met that fate.

408. In October 1946, an extraordinary spectacle. New York Times, 22 October 1946.

409. “You did?” he asked. “Where?” Davis, 30.

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411. King even set up a Dickens Room in his house. Buffalo Evening News obituary on King, 10 March 1947.

411. Saimi Pratt worked as his cook. E-mail from Ronald Pratt to author, 28 July 2009.

412. “I was a new bride and very nervous,” interview with Ruth Kahn Stouroff, 21 October 2008.

412. “If anyone calls, just say I am improving,” Buffalo Evening News, 10 March 1947.

412. A funeral procession took his coffin. Warren (Pennsylvania) Times Mirror, 10 March 1947.

412. Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia: This edition of Naturalis Historia was published in 1634 or 1639. The nameplate indicates it was a Christmas gift to King from Beulah Hood. John Edens, University of Buffalo Libraries, SUNY. Via e-mail, 27 July 2009.

413. To his former laundress he left $500. Buffalo Evening News, 28 May 1947. The laundress was Marie Bazinski; the six-year-old boy was James Millard Riley.

INDEX

Abbott, Dr. Lyman

Albany Argus

Allen, Cleveland

Allen, Gertrude

Allen, Lewis

Allen, Margaret

Apgar, Edgar

Arthur, Chester A.

Avery, Rev. Charles

Bacon, Charles E.

Bacon, Cleveland

Baker, Maria (Mrs. William)

Ball, Rev. George H. (see also Ball vs. New York Evening Post)

Ball vs. New York Evening Post

Banks, Charles

Baptist Union

Barnum, P. T.

Bass, Cleveland & Bissell

Bass, Lyman K.

Beard, Frank

Beaver Island Club (“Jolly Reefers”)

Beebe, Milton E.

Beecher, Eunice

Beecher, Henry Ward

Beniski, George

Bigelow, Allen

Bissell, Wilson S.

Billy Dranger’s Saloon

Blaine, Harriet

Blaine, James G.

Boston Globe

Boston Herald

Boston Journal

Boscobel

Bowen, Dennis

Box, Henry

Bragg, Edward S.

Brooklyn Eagle

Brown, Sister Rosaline

Bryant, Dr. Joseph

Buchanan, James

Buffalo

cholera epidemic

City Council

Fourth of July celebrations

Mansion Row (Delaware Ave.)

tensions in

Buffalo Orphan Asylum

Buffalo Commercial Advertiser

Buffalo Courier

Buffalo Evening News

Buffalo Evening Telegraph

Buffalo Express

Buffalo Times

Bull, Dr. Alexander

Burchard, Rev. Samuel D.

Burrows, Roswell L.

Butler, Gen. Benjamin

Butler, Ed

Byrne, John

Canal Street

Chicago Advance

Chicago Tribune

Christian Union

Cleaveland, Moses

Cleveland, Ann (mother of Grover)

Cleveland, “Baby Ruth”

Cleveland, Cecil

Cleveland, Frances (see Frances Folsom)

Cleveland, Grover,

achievements of

bachelor

bound for Buffalo

cancer

children of

Civil War

courting Frances

cuts back drinking

death of

Decoration Day parade

dislike of reporters

early years in Buffalo

elected governor

Election Day

election of

Evening Telegraph

feelings about Buffalo

final years

George Ball

as governor

honeymoon

inaugurated mayor

inaugurated president (1884)

inaugurated president (1893)

law career

leaves Holland Patent

life in Buffalo

life in White House

Maria Halpin scandal

as mayor

New Year’s Eve 1855, 14 nominated for president

Oscar Folsom’s death

as president-elect

presidential campaign (1884)

proposes marriage

relationship with Maria Halpin

resides in governor’s mansion

runs for governor

runs for mayor

runs for sheriff