 1891 - 1904 (12 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| Name |
Ruth Cleveland |
| Birth |
3 Oct 1891 |
New York City, New York, New York, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
7 Jan 1904 |
Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
28 May 1942 |
SGEOR |
| FamilySearch ID |
L4FV-SXD |
| Burial |
Princeton Cemetery, Mercer, New Jersey, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I90805 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
President Stephen Grover Cleveland, b. 18 Mar 1837, Caldwell, Essex, New Jersey, United States d. 24 Jun 1908, Princeton Cemetery, Mercer, New Jersey, United States (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Frances Clara Folsom, b. 21 Jul 1864, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States d. 29 Oct 1947, Baltimore City, Maryland, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Jun 1886 |
White House, Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
| Family ID |
F30064 |
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| Notes |
- She was the first Child of United States President Grover Cleveland an d t he First Lady Frances Cleveland. Her birth between Cleveland's two te r m s of office caused a national sensation. However, she was a sickly ch il d who died at the age of 12 of diphtheria. She was buried in Princeto n Ce metery.
The Curtiss Candy Company asserted that the "Baby Ruth" candy bar (forme r ly known as Kandy Kake from 1900-1920) was named after Ruth Clevelan d , a claim that the urban legends website Snopes.com has debunked. The r en aming of the candy bar took place in 1921, thirty years after Ruth Cle vel and's birth and seventeen years after her death. That same year, lege ndar y baseball player George Herman Ruth, better known by the nickname B abe R uth, was nearing the top of his popularity, having just broken th e single -season home run record.
As Richard Sandomir of The New York Times pointed out, "For 85 years, Ba b e Ruth, the slugger, and Baby Ruth, the candy bar, have lived paralle l li ves in which it has been widely assumed that the latter was named fo r th e former. The confection's creator, the Curtiss Candy Company, neve r admi tted to what looks like an obvious connection - especially since R uth hi t 54 home runs the year before the first Baby Ruth was devoured. H ad it d one so, Curtiss would have had to compensate Ruth. Instead, it ev entuall y insisted the inspiration was "Baby Ruth" Cleveland, the daughte r of Pre sident Grover Cleveland. But it is an odd connection that make s one wonde r at the marketing savvy of Otto Schnering, the company's fou nder."
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