Editing Grover Cleveland (section)

===Marriage and children===
{{main|Wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom}}
[[File:Frances Folsom Cleveland.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|right|Frances Folsom Cleveland {{Circa|1886}}]]
Cleveland was 47 years old when he entered the White House as a bachelor. His sister [[Rose Cleveland]] joined him, acting as hostess for the first 15 months of his administration.<ref>Brodsky, 158; Jeffers, 149</ref> Unlike the previous bachelor president [[James Buchanan]], Cleveland did not remain a bachelor for long. In 1885, the daughter of Cleveland's friend Oscar Folsom visited him in Washington.<ref name="graff78">Graff, 78</ref> [[Frances Cleveland|Frances Folsom]] was a student at [[Wells College]]. When she returned to school, President Cleveland received her mother's permission to correspond with her, and they were soon engaged to be married.<ref name="graff78" /> The [[Wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom|wedding]] occurred on June 2, 1886, in the [[Blue Room (White House)|Blue Room]] at the White House. Cleveland was 49 years old at the time; Frances was 21.<ref>Graff, 79</ref> He was the second president to wed while in office{{efn|[[John Tyler]], who married his second wife [[Julia Gardiner Tyler|Julia Gardiner]] in 1844, was the first.}} and remains the only president to marry in the White House. This marriage was unusual because Cleveland was the executor of Oscar Folsom's estate and had supervised Frances's upbringing after her father's death; nevertheless, the public took no exception to the match.<ref>Jeffers, 170–176; Graff, 78–81; Nevins, 302–308; Welch, 51</ref> At 21 years, Frances Folsom Cleveland was and remains the youngest [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] in history, and soon became popular for her warm personality.<ref>Graff, 80–81</ref>

The Clevelands had five children: [[Ruth Cleveland|Ruth]] (1891–1904), [[Esther Cleveland|Esther]] (1893–1980), Marion (1895–1977), [[Richard F. Cleveland|Richard]] (1897–1974), and [[Francis Cleveland|Francis]] (1903–1995). British philosopher [[Philippa Foot]] (1920–2010) was their granddaughter.<ref>{{cite news|first=William |last=Grimes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/10foot.html |title=Philippa Foot, Renowned Philosopher, Dies at 90 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 9, 2010 |access-date=November 8, 2024}}</ref> Ruth contracted [[diphtheria]] on January 2, 1904, and died five days after her diagnosis.<ref name="Quinn">{{cite book|last1=Quinn|first1=Sandra L.|last2=Kanter|first2=Sandford|date=1995|title=America's Royalty: All the Presidents' Children|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=[https://archive.org/details/americasroyaltya00quin_0/page/131 131]|isbn=0-313-29535-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/americasroyaltya00quin_0/page/131}}</ref> The [[Curtiss Candy Company]] would later assert that the "[[Baby Ruth]]" candy bar was named after her.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/baby-ruth/ |title=Baby Ruth |first=David |last=Mikkelson |website=[[Snopes]] |date=February 21, 2007 |accessdate=June 24, 2008}}</ref> Cleveland also claimed paternity of a child with Maria Crofts Halpin, [[Oscar Folsom Cleveland]], who was born in 1874.<ref>{{cite magazine |last = Serratore |first = Angela |title = President Cleveland's Problem Child |magazine = [[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |date = September 26, 2013 |url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/president-clevelands-problem-child-100800/ |access-date = August 15, 2023}}</ref>