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 GROVER CLEVELAND 291 first wife of a president married in the White House, and the first to give birth to a child there, their second daughter having been born in the exec utive mansion in 1893. They had a son and three daughters. His youngest sister, ROSE ELIZABETH, b. in Fayetteville, N. Y., August 13, 1845, removed in 1853 to Holland Patent, N. Y., where her father was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian church, and where he died the same year. She was edu cated at Houghton seminary, became a teacher in that school, and later assumed charge of the col legiate institute in Lafayette, Ind. She taught for a time in a private school in Pennsylvania, and then prepared a course of historical lectures, which she delivered before the students of Houghton seminary and in other schools. When not em ployed in this manner, she devoted herself to her aged mother in the homestead at Holland Patent, N. Y., until her mother s death in 1882. On the inauguration of the president she became the mis tress of the White House, and after her brother s marriage she for a time connected herself as part owner and instructor in an established institution in New York city. Miss Cleveland is a lawyer and political speaker, and has published a volume of lectures and essays under the title &quot;George Eliot s Poetry, and other Studies&quot; (New York, 1885) ; &quot;The Long Run,&quot; a novel (1886); &quot;See Saw&quot; (1887) ; and &quot;His Honor&quot; (1889).