Editing Grover Cleveland (section)

===Education and moving west===
[[Image:PCLEV001-009.jpg|thumb|upright|An early, undated photograph of Grover Cleveland]]
Cleveland received his elementary education at the Fayetteville Academy and the [[Clinton, Oneida County, New York#Former schools in Clinton|Clinton Grammar School]] (not the Clinton Liberal Institute).<ref>Nevins, 18–19; Jeffers, 19</ref> After his father died in 1853, he again left school to help support his family. Later that year, Cleveland's brother William was hired as a teacher at the [[New York Institute for the Blind]] in New York City, and William obtained a place for Cleveland as an assistant teacher. Cleveland returned home to Holland Patent at the end of 1854, where an elder in his church offered to pay for his college education if he promised to become a minister. Cleveland declined, and in 1855 he decided to move west.<ref>Nevins, 23–27</ref>

He stopped first in [[Buffalo, New York]], where his uncle-in-law [[Lewis F. Allen]], gave him a clerical job.<ref>Nevins, 27–33</ref> Allen was an important man in Buffalo, and he introduced his nephew-in-law to influential men there, including the partners in the [[law firm]] of Rogers, Bowen, and Rogers.<ref>Nevins, 31–36</ref> [[Millard Fillmore]], the 13th president of the United States, had previously worked for the partnership.<ref>Graff, 11</ref> Cleveland later took a clerkship with the firm, began to [[read the law]] with them, and was admitted to the [[Bar examination in the United States|New York bar]] in 1859.<ref name="graff14">Graff, 14</ref>