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INDEX
Italicized page references denote illustrations.
Abbott, Frank, 41
Ackerman, Lauren, 225
Adams, Henry, 84, 118
Adams, John Quincy, 75, 171
African Americans, 166, 167–68, 180
alcohol consumption
cancers associated with, 225
of Cleveland, 23, 25, 27, 29, 34, 45–46
Allen, Lewis, 21, 23
Allen, William, 182–83, 201–2
Altgeld, John Peter, 189
American Oncologic Hospital, 41
American Press Syndicate, 140
American Railway Union (ARU), 180, 186–90
American Red Cross, 168–69
American Sugar Refining Company, 198–205
amputation, 69
anesthesia, 77, 78, 87–88, 90, 91, 151
Anthony, Susan B., 186
Aponte, Gonzalo, 224
Arthur, Chester, 35, 56, 75
ARU (American Railway Union), 180, 186–90
assassinations, 14, 30, 59–61, 60
assistant district attorney positions, 24
Babbitt, George, 113
Baby Ruth (candy bar), 50
Ball, George, 35
bankruptcies, 5–6, 12–13, 15, 118
banner headlines, 144, 156
Barber, Douglas, 151
Barton, Clara, 168–69
basal cell carcinoma, 228
baseball, 82
Bass, Lyman K., 25
Baum, Lyman Frank, 121
Baxter, Jedediah, 60
Bayard, Thomas, 172
beards, 75–77
Bell, Alexander Graham, 60
Benedict, Elias C.
Cleveland’s relationship with, 50, 90, 101–2
Cleveland’s surgery, 88, 90
Edwards’s press coverage on, 141
Keen’s surgery account, 213
summer homes of, 101
surgery cover–up, 150
yachts of, 55, 79, 84–85, 85, 87, 221
Bennett, Eben, 219
Benninsky [Brinske], George, 25
Billroth, Theodor, 40
bimetalism, 11
Blaine, James G., 35, 36
Bland–Allison Act, 11
Blatchford, Samuel, 109–10
Borden, Emma Corinna “Tinnie,” 65–66, 71
brain tumors, 71
Breckenridge, John, 111
Bright’s disease, 56
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (newspaper), 164–65
Brooks, John S. J., 224–26
Bryan, William Jennings, 124–26, 125, 192
Bryant, Joseph Decatur
background, 16, 16, 61
cancer diagnosis, 16–17
death, 210
obstetrics, 170–71
postoperative complications and second surgery, 116–17
postoperative recovery, 114, 152
surgery cover–up, 106–7
surgery cover–up revelation and, 148–49
surgery planning, 53–55, 62, 77–78
as surgical team member, 88, 91
surgical team recruiting, 63–64, 77, 78
travel day, 84
tumor removal papers by, 53
Buchanan, James, 111
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 44
Buffalo, New York, 21–22, 30, 36
Bureau of Agriculture, Labor, and Industry, 119
Butler, Matthew, 168
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 215
Calverly, Clifford, 93, 96
cancer. See also surgery, Cleveland’s; surgery cover–up
Cleveland and, 15–17, 197, 225–26
Cleveland’s proclamation on, 44
cure claims, 40, 152–53
Grant and, 39–40, 41–43, 43
in history, 40–41
modern perception of, 226
Reagan and, 227–28
word usage, 40, 146, 227, 228
capital punishment, 26
Carlisle, John, 199–200, 203, 204
casts of Cleveland’s mouth, 74, 115, 185, 185
Chace, George Ide, 66
Chapman, Elverton, 205
childbirth, 170–71
children
born at White House, 171
of Cleveland, 10, 50, 171–72, 191, 194, 195–96, 207–8
out–of–wedlock, 27–28
chimney sweeps, 41
Church, Francis, 131
Churchill, Allen, 129, 130
civil rights, 8
Civil Service Commission, 14
civil service reform, 14, 35, 136
Civil War,
24–25, 68, 75, 137–38, 156
Cleaveland, Moses, 21
Cleveland, Aaron, 19
Cleveland, Ann (Neal), 19, 20
Cleveland, Esther, 172
Cleveland, Frances (Folsom)
childhood, 26, 29, 46
children, 10, 50, 171, 172, 191, 194, 195–96
courtship and marriage, 46–47, 47, 48
death and burial, 220
Eisenhower and, 220
family portraits, 51
as First Lady, 48, 103
husband’s health, 16
husband’s surgery cover–up, 103–4
husband’s surgery disclosure to children, 207–8
at inauguration, 7, 9
Keen’s surgery account and, 210–11, 213
pregnancy and childbirth, 84, 104, 151, 170–71
reelection prediction, 49
remarriage, 210–11
retirement home, 194
woman’s suffrage and, 186
Cleveland, Francis Grover, 194, 220
Cleveland, Grover. See Cleveland, Stephen Grover
Cleveland, Marion, 191
Cleveland, Oscar Folsom, 27–28, 35
Cleveland, Richard (father), 19–20
Cleveland, Richard (son), 194, 224
Cleveland, Ruth, 10, 50, 51, 195–96
Cleveland, Stephen Grover
ancestry, 19–20
associates of, 50
awards and honors, 196
with Benedict on Oneida, 87
children, 10, 27–28, 50, 171, 172, 191, 194, 195–96
death and burial, 196–97
description, 6, 29, 31, 77
early years and employment, 20–22
family portraits, 51
at Grant’s funeral, 44
health, 15–17, 44–45, 72, 86, 193, 197, (see also surgery, Cleveland’s; surgery cover-up)
law career, 23–24, 27, 49–50
mantras, 30
marriage, 46–47, 47, 48
at McKinley inauguration, 193, 193
military service, 24–25
name usage, 23
pastimes and vices, 23, 25, 27, 29, 34, 45
paternity scandals, 27–28, 35–36
personality, 31, 35–36, 48, 157, 185–86, 190
political career, early, 24, 25–26, 29–34
political career, presidential campaigns and terms, 15, 34–38, 46, 49–52, 82, 191–92
political party affiliations, 22–23
portraits of, 7, 36
proclamation on Grant’s cancer, 44
retirement, 194–95, 195
speech style, 52
Cleveland Depression, 191, 194. See also Panic of 1893
Cleveland weather, 6
cocaine, 42, 91
Cody, Buffalo Bill, 10
Coinage Act, 10–11
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 222–23
Colquitt, Alfred, 45–46
communism, 76–77
Conscription Act, 24–25
Consolidated Exchange, 178
Cooper, T. Colden, 20
Crane, Stephen, 139–40
Crook, William H., 48
currency issues, 10–13, 51–52, 121–22, 192. See also Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Curtis, Cyrus, 211, 216
Dana, Charles A., 33, 37, 129–32, 135, 136–37
Darrow, Clarence, 181
Darwin, Charles, 66
Daveler, Theodore, 71
Davis, L. Clarke, 50, 101, 150, 161
Davis, Richard Harding, 137
Dawes, Charles, 119
Debs, Eugene V., 180, 186–90, 187
Democratic Party affiliations, 22–23
dentistry, 78, 108, 151
Deppisch, Ludwig, 62
desks, 13, 82
Dewey, Thomas, 76
Dickinson, Don, 150
“Disgrace to Journalism, A” (Philadelphia Times article), 160–61
district attorney campaigns, 25–26
Dittenhoefer, Abram, 202, 204
Donelson, Emily, 171
Douglas, John Hancock, 39, 41, 43
Dubois, Fred, 183
Dunne, John Baptist, 179
eating habits, 27, 29, 45
economy. See Panic of 1893
Edwards, Elisha Jay “E. J.” (aka Holland)
articles on Cleveland, 197
background, 128, 129, 138
career, 205, 217
college reunion speeches, 217–18
columns on future of journalism, 140
Crane patronage, 139–40
death and obituaries, 218
discredit of, 158–65, 161
journalism career, 128–29, 132, 136–39
Keen’s surgery account and vindication, 210, 213, 214–16
Sugar Trust scandal, 197–205
surgery cover–up revelation, 142–48, 147
tributes, 217
Edwards, Jonathan, 197
Eisenhower, Dwight, 220
Emporia Gazette (newspaper), 120
Engine 999, 181
Enterline, Horatio, 224–26
“Epidemics of Suicide” (New York Tribune article), 178
epithelioma, 17, 39–40, 41, 91, 95. See also cancer; surgery, Cleveland’s
Erdmann, John
career, 149, 149, 210, 221
on Cleveland’s death, 197
on cover–up, 149
death, 221
Keen’s surgery account and, 213
as surgical team member, 78, 84, 88, 94, 117
Esther (name), 172
ether, 87–88, 90, 91
Everlasting Life: A Creed and a Speculation (Keen), 209
exercise aversion, 29
facial hair, 75–77
Falvey, Mike, 23
Ferrell, Robert H., 212
fiat currency, 11
filibusters, 181–84
Folsom, Emma, 46
Folsom, Frances. See Cleveland, Frances
(Folsom) Folsom, Oscar, 26, 28–29
Forney, John, 137–38
Fox Chase Cancer Center, 41
Franklin Repository (newspaper), 156
Franz Josef style, 75
Fuller, Melville, 9
Garfield, James
assassination, 14, 30
facial hair, 75
medical care, 59–60, 60
as president, 29
vice president relationship with, 52
Garland, Augustus, 47
germ theory, 68–70
Gibson, Kasson
Cleveland’s letters to, 192
Cleveland’s mouth casts made by, 74, 115, 185, 185
Keen’s surgery account interview, 213
tumor specimens, 221–26, 222
Gilded Age, 81
Gilder, Richard Watson, 50, 101, 102
gold
bond sales and reserve replenish, 190–91
currency standard debates, overview, 10–12
supporters of (gold bugs), 12, 13, 14, 82, 83, 120, 192, 193
Yukon gold rush, 194
gold certificates, 11
gout, 44–45, 193
graft, 26
Grant, Ulysses S.
Cleveland’s illness compared to, 146, 225
Dana and, 130
facial hair, 75
grandchildren born at White House, 171
illness and death, 39–40, 41–44, 43
Gravelot, Jean Francois, 93
Gray, George, 201, 204
Gray Gables, 55, 96, 101, 102, 102, 196
Grayson, Cary T., 56, 58
Great Deflation, 11
Great Northern Railroad, 111
Greeley, Horace, 157
Gresham, Walter, 109
Gross, Samuel, 41, 67
gubernatorial positions, 31–34
Guiteau, Charles, 59, 61
Gullah, 166, 167–68
gunshot wound care, 59–61, 60
Hahnemann, Samuel, 58
Haight, Albert, 30
Halpin, Maria Crofts, 27–28, 35, 135
Hamlin, Charles, 117–18
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 44, 157
Harding, Warren, 58–59
Harris, Isham, 182, 183
Harrisburg Telegraph (newspaper), 164
Harrison, Benjamin, 6, 49, 52, 53, 60, 75, 82
Harrison, Caroline, 52
Hasbrouck, Ferdinand
death, 210
discrediting of, 161
as fall guy, 151
postoperative cover–up, 95, 96
second surgery and, 117
surgery cover–up disclosure, 107, 127, 142–43, 148–51
as surgical team member, 78, 84, 88, 90–91
Havemeyer, Henry O., 198–200, 205
Hayes, Rutherford B., 75
health, as allegory for nation, 8–9
health care quality, 58–61, 68
heart disease, 59
Hippocrates, 40
Hoar, Frisbie, 182–83
Hoe, Richard, 133–34
Hog Island, 166
Holland (nom de plume). See Edwards, Elisha Jay “E. J.”
homeopathy, 58
honesty, 31, 35–36, 112, 136
Hoover, Ike, 57–58
hospitalism, 69
hospitals, 40–41, 68, 69–70, 170
How the Other Half Lives (Riis), 137
Hoyt, Mary, 104, 116
Hughes, Charles, 76
hurricanes, 166–70
Ill–Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust (Ferrell), 212
illness concealment, 56–58, 164. See also surgery cover–up
Inauguration Day
Cleveland’s, 6–10, 9
McKinley’s, 193, 193
infections, 59–61, 68–69, 225
inflation, 12
influenza, 56, 209
interviewing, 134
Jackson, Andrew, 164, 171
James, Thomas, 136
Janeway, Edward, 77, 84, 86, 91, 117, 210
Jefferson, Joseph, 50, 101, 102, 107
Jefferson, Thomas, 171
Jefferson Medical College, 66, 67–68, 73
Jesunofsky, Lewis N., 167
Johnson, Andrew, 75
Johnson, Tom, 126
Jones, John P., 184
Jones,
Leander, 128, 142
Journalist (trade journal), 165
Keen, William Williams “W. W.”
awards and honors, 219
background and qualifications, 64, 64–68, 70–71, 73
on cancer recurrence, 197
career and later years, 208–9, 219–20
Cleveland examinations and health, 207
Cleveland surgery risk assessments, 72
death, 220
Edwards’s mistreatment and vindication, 162, 210, 216
on Hasbrouck’s press leak, 151
military service, 218
postoperative recovery, 95, 96
Roosevelt, F. D., as patient, 219