Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston
(1864-1947)
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| Date of Birth | July 21, 1864 |
| Date of Death | October 29, 1947 |
| Place of Birth | Buffalo, NY |
| Place of Death | Baltimore, MD |
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Frances Cleveland was born on July 21, 1864, in Buffalo, New York. She married President Grover Cleveland on June 2, 1886. The couple had three daughters and two sons. Grover Cleveland died in 1908, and Frances remarried in 1913. She became active in the Needlework Guild during World War I, later serving as its national president, from 1925 to 1940. She died on October 29, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland.
“I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the [White] house, for I want to find everything just as it is now when we come back again four years from today.”
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