Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland was born in 1837 in the Presbyterian parsonage in Caldwell, New Jersey, where his father was the minister in a church.

He was born in the back room.

The building has been restored to its 1837 appearance, and has a small museum inside.

Cleveland lived there until he was four years old, when his family moved to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.

His father became the pastor at a church in Fayetteville in 1841, where he spent much of his childhood.

The parsonage they lived in for much of this period is now a private home.

In 1855 Grover Cleveland moved to Buffalo, and ended up studying and practicing law, residing in plain boarding houses most of the time. In 1870 he ran for sheriff, then later mayor, governor, and president, in 1885. After serving one term, he moved to New York City.

Cleveland won a second term in 1893, becoming the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. He retired afterwards to Princeton, New Jersey, where he served as a trustee of Princeton University, and lived in a mansion he called Westland. It is still privately owned and occupied (recently on the market for $4,325,000).

Grover Cleveland died in 1908, and is buried in a cemetery in Princeton.