He was named after the Presbyterian minister who was his father's predecessor.

The first name soon dropped out of use, and from childhood he went by his middle name, a practice of which the Clevelands supply so many instances that it seems to be quite a family trait.
In campaign literature, so much has been made of the humble circumstances in which Grover made his start in life that the unwary reader might easily imagine that the future President was almost a waif.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.

He really belonged to the most authentic aristocracy that any state of society can produce--that which maintains its standards and principles from generation to generation by the integrity of the stock without any endowment of wealth.
The Clevelands were people who reared large families and sustained themselves with dignity and credit on narrow means.

It was a settled tradition with such republican aristocrats that a son destined for a learned profession--usually the ministry--should be sent to college, and for that purpose heroic economies were practiced in the family.

The opportunities which wealth can confer are really trivial in comparison with the advantage of being born and reared in such bracing conditions as those which surrounded Grover Cleveland.