Stephen Grover Cleveland 1837-1909
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| Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 |
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Grover Cleveland signed appointment for F. Walter Brandenburg Jr., naming him the Notary for the District of Columbia (Washingtonn D.C.) Dated January 9th, 1897, just two months before the end of his term.
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| Grover Cleveland 1880 |
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President Grover Cleveland's Beaver Skin Top Hat and monongrammed hat case, circa 1880
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Frances F. (Frankie) Cleveland 1864-1947
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| Frances F. Cleveland 1865-1947 |
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Frances F. Cleveland hand-written letter to a Mr. Vail allowing him to use her name as a Patroness for a recital to benefit the Inter-Collegiate Debating Club. Mr. & Mrs. Cleveland were the first Presidential couple married in the White House. Grover Cleveland married young Francis on June 2cd 1886 when she was just 21 years old. Grover Cleveland, 27 years her senior.... and her father's best friend and law partner.... would often boast that he purchased her first baby carriage....and that he often took young "Frankie" on long strolls. Hmmmmmm!
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| U.S.S. Maine Jan. 1898 |
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Captain Charles D. Sigsbee's etched straight razor recovered from the sunken U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. The Maine blew up and sank on the evening of February 15, 1898 while Captain Sigsbee was in his cabin writing a letter to his wife. The rallying cry: "Remember the Maine!" led the U.S. into the "Spanish-American War" and rewarded The McKinley Administration with the newly aquired territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
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Willaim McKinley Jr. 1843-1901
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| William McKinley Jr. 1897-1901 |
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President William Mckinly signed Postal Appointment for William F. Case making him Postmaster of Northport, Washington, Dated March 14th, 1901, just six months before his assassination at the hands of Leon F. Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
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Governor of Ohio, William McKinley signed appointment for D.P. Current, Notary for the County of Putnam, Ohio
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| Ida Saxton McKinley 1847-1907 |
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Veiled Prophet Hand Mirror presented to Ida Saxton McKinley by the Mayor of St. Louis , Cyrus Walbridge, during her stay there while she and her husband, the future President, were attending the final days of the 1896 Repuplican Convention. Mr. & Mrs. McKinley were inseparable during the later years of their marriage, due mainly to her epilepsy... brought on by the deaths of her mother and two daughters. (Another Mayor of St, Louis, David R. Francis, later became the Secretary of the interior under McKinley)
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Walnut & Ivory handle Ladies umbrella sword bearing the Crest of the Austro-Hungarian Royal Family. The sword was discovered...without the umbrella... on the grounds of the White House after a sumptuous State Dinner hosted by President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
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