CLEVELAND, GROVER, President . Letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, to Oliver Hoyt of New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C., 31 July 1885. 1 full page, 4to, 245 x 197mm (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), integral blank, on grey "Executive Mansion" stationery, the body of the letter in a clear, strong clerical hand. Fine. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND CHOOSES PALLBEARERS FOR THE FUNERAL OF ULYSSES S. GRANT The first Democratic President since Buchanan helps arrange for the funeral of an eminent Republican predecessor: "Having been requested by Mrs. Grant to name the pall-bearers to officiate at the funeral of Genl. Grant in New York City on the 8th proximo, I have designated you as one of the number and have to ask that you give me early notice of your acceptance of the appointment...." After his retirement in 1877, Grant was humiliated and left virtually penniless by the failure of a New York investment firm in which his son was a partner. To relieve his distress, friends campaigned for the revival of the post of general which Grant had vacated when he assumed the presidency. Chester Arthur signed the revival act on his last day in office, but ironically the commission, which conferred a lifetime salary on the old soldier, was signed by Grover Cleveland, the first Democrat to serve as President for 25 years. Grant, tragically, was diagnosed with cancer of the throat in 1884 and worked doggedly to complete his memoirs, communicating by notes when he lost his voice. He died on 23 July 1885. For Grant's funeral on 8 August 1885, an estimated one million persons turned out. Forty thousand men in uniform marched behind the catafalque, drawn by twenty-four black horses. President Cleveland and ex-President Arthur and Hayes all rode in the cortege. As a gesture of reconciliation, old enemies from the Civil War - William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Eggleston Johnson, Philip Sheridan and Simon Bolivar Buckner - served a pallbearers. Oliver Hoyt, who accepted the present invitation from President Cleveland, was a well-known New York merchant, active in the Methodist church, an admirer of Grant who had contributed to Grant's 1872 presidential campaign. Grant was interred in a temporary mausoleum in Riverside Park; in 1897 an imposing marble tomb on the same site was was dedicated.
CLEVELAND, GROVER, President . Letter signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, to Oliver Hoyt of New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C., 31 July 1885. 1 full page, 4to, 245 x 197mm (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), integral blank, on grey "Executive Mansion" stationery, the body of the letter in a clear, strong clerical hand. Fine. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND CHOOSES PALLBEARERS FOR THE FUNERAL OF ULYSSES S. GRANT The first Democratic President since Buchanan helps arrange for the funeral of an eminent Republican predecessor: "Having been requested by Mrs. Grant to name the pall-bearers to officiate at the funeral of Genl. Grant in New York City on the 8th proximo, I have designated you as one of the number and have to ask that you give me early notice of your acceptance of the appointment...." After his retirement in 1877, Grant was humiliated and left virtually penniless by the failure of a New York investment firm in which his son was a partner. To relieve his distress, friends campaigned for the revival of the post of general which Grant had vacated when he assumed the presidency. Chester Arthur signed the revival act on his last day in office, but ironically the commission, which conferred a lifetime salary on the old soldier, was signed by Grover Cleveland, the first Democrat to serve as President for 25 years. Grant, tragically, was diagnosed with cancer of the throat in 1884 and worked doggedly to complete his memoirs, communicating by notes when he lost his voice. He died on 23 July 1885. For Grant's funeral on 8 August 1885, an estimated one million persons turned out. Forty thousand men in uniform marched behind the catafalque, drawn by twenty-four black horses. President Cleveland and ex-President Arthur and Hayes all rode in the cortege. As a gesture of reconciliation, old enemies from the Civil War - William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Eggleston Johnson, Philip Sheridan and Simon Bolivar Buckner - served a pallbearers. Oliver Hoyt, who accepted the present invitation from President Cleveland, was a well-known New York merchant, active in the Methodist church, an admirer of Grant who had contributed to Grant's 1872 presidential campaign. Grant was interred in a temporary mausoleum in Riverside Park; in 1897 an imposing marble tomb on the same site was was dedicated.
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