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Grover Cleveland: “Nothing appears which satisfactorily connects this injury, which was received in November, 1864, with death from…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 1889
Nothing appears which satisfactorily connects this injury, which was received in November, 1864, with death from consumption in 1876.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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