CHAPTER XXVIII 

 GROVER CLEVELAND 



HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 

 FROM 1905 TO IQOS 



THE first layman on whom was conferred by unanimous elec- 

 tion the title of honorary vice-president of the National 

 Tuberculosis Association was Grover Cleveland, ex-presi- 

 dent of the United States, and at the time of his election member 

 of the board of trustees of and professor of jurisprudence at 

 Princeton University. Our society honored itself by making 

 Grover Cleveland its honorary vice-president, in 1906. 



Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, N. J., March 18, 1837. 

 His father was the Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland, and his 

 mother, Anne Neal Cleveland. His interest in medicine and in 

 the unfortunate sick and disabled dates back to 1853, when he 

 became a teacher in the Institute for the Blind, located at Ninth 

 Avenue and 34th Street, in the city of New York. He was drawn 

 to the study of law, however, and admitted to the bar in 1859. 

 He became assistant district attorney in January, 1863, was 

 elected sheriff of Erie County, New York, in 1870, mayor of 

 Buffalo in 1881, and governor of the State of New York by a 

 majority of 192,000 on November I, 1882. Two years later, on 

 November 4, 1884, he was elected to the presidency of the United 

 States and he was elected for the second time November 8, 1892. 



Mr. Cleveland on repeated occasions showed deep interest in 

 medicine and disease prevention. His address on the occasion of 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Academy of Medicine on 

 January 29, 1897, may be seen in its autographed form on the 

 walls of the Academy by all who care to read it. It shows that 

 he was well informed on the advances in medicine and sanitation, 

 yet at the same time in touching words he paid his tribute to the 

 village doctor of fifty years ago. After saying that those not born 

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