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Ruth Eva Cleveland (October 3, 1891 – January 7, 1904), popularly known as Baby Ruth or Babe Ruth, was the eldest of five children born to United States President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Cleveland. She is the purported namesake of the Baby Ruth candy bar.
Ruth Cleveland, daughter of United States president Grover Cleveland, became the official corporate namesake for the "Baby Ruth" candy bar in 1921, almost 30 years after she was born. Box of Curtiss' Baby Ruth candy bars at a general store in Portsmouth, North Carolina
Ruth Cleveland Nickname: Baby Ruth: October 3, 1891 – January 7, 1904 no spouse: died of diphtheria: Esther Cleveland: September 9, 1893 – June 25, 1980
Ruth contracted diphtheria on January 2, 1904, and died five days after her diagnosis. [169] The Curtiss Candy Company would later assert that the "Baby Ruth" candy bar was named after her. [170] Cleveland also claimed paternity of a child with Maria Crofts Halpin, Oscar Folsom Cleveland, who was born in 1874. [171]
One long-term survivor of the craze over Ruth may be the Baby Ruth candy bar. The original company to market the confectionery, the Curtis Candy Company, maintained that the bar was named after Ruth Cleveland, daughter of former president Grover Cleveland.
[4]: 243 Folsom and Cleveland first met when she was still an infant; [5]: 268 [6]: 106 he was a regular presence in her childhood, and he bought her her first baby carriage. [ 2 ] : 15 Although the Folsoms were financially secure when she was born, [ 7 ] : 144 her father's gambling habits and his penchant for helping others with his money ...
The impetus for the boost in the popularity of the name Ruth was the 3 October 1891 birth of Ruth Cleveland daughter of (then former) US president Grover Cleveland and his wife Frances Cleveland, the latter herself a celebrity due to her 2 June 1886 marriage – she remains the youngest first lady and the only one wed at the White House ...
Esther Cleveland was born on September 9, 1893, in the White House, to the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, and First Lady Frances Folsom. She remains the only child of a president to have been born there, and was nicknamed "the White House baby" as a result.