He bought her very first baby carriage. Twenty-one years later, he married her in the Blue Room of the White House. Frances Folsom was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1864. Her father, Oscar Folsom, was a lawyer, and his law partner and close friend was a bachelor named Grover Cleveland. Cleveland was a regular visitor in the house. Little Frances called him "Uncle Cleve." When she was 11, her father was killed in a carriage accident. Cleveland took charge of his estate, paid off the family's debts and looked after Frances and her mother. He became, in effect, the girl's guardian. Cleveland went on to become mayor of Buffalo, governor of New York and then President of the United States. In August 1885, a few weeks after Frances turned 21, he proposed to her by letter. When rumors of an engagement spread, many people assumed the President was courting her mother. On June 2, 1886, the 49-year-old President married 21-year-old Frances in the White House, with only 31 guests. She became the youngest First Lady in American history. The country fell in love with her. Her face was on advertisements everywhere, and women copied her hairstyle. The couple had five children. Cleveland died in 1908. Five years later, Frances married again, the first President's widow ever to do so.