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[7]:122127, On October 29, 1912, it was announced that Frances intended to remarry. Oscar was born to Maria Halpin, a widow from New Jersey who had left her two children behind and moved to Buffalo seeking a new life. [1]:142[5]:106 Each evening, the couple drove to their private home to oversee improvements. He served as a Marine Corps officer during World War I, and then graduated from Princeton in 1919, earned his masters degree from Princeton in 1921, a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1924. Cleveland is well known here, and it is a reproach to the city that he ever got into the Gubernatorial chair. Was he indeed too much of a libertine to lead the nation? [7]:134 Her second husband went on to teach at Princeton University, where she continued to be a prominent figure in campus social life. ), adopted by James and Sarah King of Buffalo, New York before his fifth birthday; his name was changed to James E. King. : A Man of 40 Lusty Summers Sowing His Wild Oats, Chicago Daily Tribune, 13 August 1884; THE CLEVELAND SCANDAL: A Fresh Scrutiny of the Charges Affecting the New York Governor, Chicago Tribune, 31 October 1884; THE CLEVELAND SCANDAL. [7]:62 She underwent a period of depression over the following months, and she retreated to the Gilders' cottage in Marion, New York. Ha!". [1]:143 Cleveland struggled with the transition from public to private life, having never run a private household of her own. Oscar was born to Maria Halpin, a widow from New Jersey who had left her two children behind and moved to Buffalo seeking a new life. Ruth Cleveland, born in the period between her fathers non-consecutive terms, was very popular with the public, being called Baby Ruth in the press. In an October 31, 1884, interview with the Chicago Tribune, she proclaimed, The circumstances under which my ruin was accomplished are too revolting on the part of Grover Cleveland to be made public.. Five years later, she married Thomas J. Preston, Jr., a professor of archeology at Princeton University. One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was born on March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Cleveland knew his bride-to-be, the daughter of his longtime friend and law partner Oscar Folsom, almost from the moment she was born. For instance, how he married -- in the White House -- a woman 27 years his junior. He follows Halpin into hiding, the clamoring from the press for interviews and then to her death. Frances Cleveland, ne Frances Folsom, also called (1913-47) Frances Cleveland Preston, (born July 21, 1864, Buffalo, New York, U.S.died October 29, 1947, Baltimore, Maryland), American first lady (1886-89; 1893-97), the wife of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, and the youngest first lady in American history.