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A sickly child, Ruth Cleveland contracted diphtheria on January 2, 1904. Doctors thought her case was mild, but she died of heart failure five days after her diagnosis. She is buried in Princeton Cemetery . [1]
- October 3, 1891, New York City, U.S.
- Miss Fine's School
- January 7, 1904 (aged 12), Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
- Princeton Cemetery
Doctors thought her case was mild, but she died of heart failure five days after her diagnosis. She is buried in Princeton Cemetery. Following doctor's advice, Mrs. Cleveland did not attend the funeral; Woodrow Wilson, at the time the president of Princeton University, was present. The family never returned to Gray Gables after Ruth's death.
5 de abr. de 2019 · At the age of twelve, Ruth died of diphtheria. The entire nation mourned along with the Clevelands. Esther Cleveland, 1893-1980. Esther is also famous, as the answer to a popular trivia question. Esther was the first, and to date the only, child of a president born in the White House.
Ruth Cleveland. American Folk Figure. The daughter and first child of President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Cleveland, she died at the age of 12 from a bout of diphtheria.
Jan. 7.—Ruth Cleveland, the eldest child of ex-Pres-ident and Airs. Grover Cleveland, died at the Cleveland home here today very unexpectedly, the immediate cause of death being a. weakening of the heart action during a mild attack of diphtheria.
Cleveland and the rest of his family were treated prophylactically with anti-toxin 1a. There was little that could be done for Ruth, however. Cleveland's diary palpably shows the grief he suffered at her rapid, unexpected death.
Born Oct 3, 1891, in New York, NY; died of diphtheria, Jan 7, 1904, at age 12, in Princeton, New Jersey; dau. of Grover Cleveland (US president) and Frances Folsom Cleveland. Popularly known as Baby Ruth while living in the White House .
