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Ulysses Simpson Grant Grants Family Julia Grant The Ulysses Simpson Grant Ulysses S. Grant came to the Presidency a great military hero. 18th President of the United States (March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877) Nickname: "Hero of Appomattox" Born: April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio Died: July 23, 1885, in Mount McGregor, New York Father: Jesse Root Grant Mother: Hannah Simpson Grant Married: Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902), on August 22, 1848 Children: Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912); Ulysses Simpson Grant (1852-1929); Ellen Wrenshall Grant (1855-1922); Jesse Root Grant (1858-1934) Religion: Methodist Education: Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (1843) Occupation: Soldier Political Party: Republican Public Service: His Vice President(s): Schyler Colfax, Henry Wilson Grants Family U.S.Grant and Julia Grant The Grant Family Julia Grant First Lady: Julia Grant, Wife Wife's Maiden Name: Julia Dent Number of Children: 4 was married to Ulysses S. Grant for nearly 37 years. Their marriage was a remarkably close one, a rich blending of two human beings until they became virtually one entity. Julia was a very plain woman and she had no illusion about her physical limitations. In 1880, she relayed a touching story to one her friends: "I used to cry when I was a little girl because I was so ugly. 'Never mind, Julia,' my dear mother would say, 'you can be my good little girl.' I used to wish I could ever once be called her 'pretty little girl.'" Grants Children: Ulysses S. Grant married Julia Boggs Dent on August 22, 1848. Children of Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant: Frederick Dent Grant, b. 1850. (Married Ida Marie Honore). Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. b. 1852. (Married 1. Fannie Josephine Chaffee. Married 2. America Workman Will). Ellen Wrenshall Grant (Nellie) b. 1855. (Married 1. Algernon Chas. Frederick Sartoris. Married 2. Frank Hatch Jones. Jesse Root Grant, b. 1858. (Married 1. Elizabeth Chapman. Married 2. Lillian Burns Wilkins). Presidential Election Results: Year Popular Votes Electoral Votes 1868 Ulysses S. Grant Horatio Seymour Vice Presidents: Schuyler Colfax (1869-73); Henry Wilson (1873-75) Ulysses S. Grant was a devoted family man. He and his wife Julia had four children and were fortunate not to lose any of them to an early death, as was so often in the case in those days of untreatable diseases and lack of the kind of med- ical care we take for granted today. They were proud of their children and the children respected them. One author observed that the whole family was "one big mutual admiration society." Chronology of the Grant children Frederick Dent Grant Born May 30, 1850 at St. Louis, Missouri. Accompanied his father in various engagements during the Civil War. Attended West Point, graduating in 1871. Married Ida Marie Honore, October 20, 1874. Children: Princess Julia Grant Can- tacuzene, Ulysses S. Grant III. U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1890-1893. New York City Police Commissioner, 1895-1897. Major General, United States Army. Fought in the Spanish American War. Died in New York City, April 11, 1912. Buried with his wife at West Point. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. Born July 22, 1852 in Bethel, Ohio. Graduated from Harvard University in 1874, and from the Law School of Columbia University in 1876. Married Fannie Josephine Chaffee in 1880. Children: Miriam, Chaffee, Julia, Fannie, Ulysses IV. Moved to California in 1893 and worked in the field of law and finance. Opened the U.S. Grant Hotel in 1910. Today it is a Four Diamond Landmark Hotel. Married Mrs. America Workman Will in 1913 after the death of his wife Fan- nie. Died September 26, 1929 and is buried in San Diego, California. Nellie Grant Sartoris Jones Born July 4, 1855 at Wish Ton Wish near St. Louis, Missouri. Married in a spectacular White House wedding on May 21, 1874 to Algernon Sartoris of England. Children: Algernon Edward Sartoris, Vivien May Sartoris Scovel, Rosemary Alice Sartoris Woolston. She moved to England, but the mar- riage proved a failure and she returned to the United States and lived with her mother until the latter's death. In 1912 she married Frank Hatch Jones, first Assistant Postmaster under Presi- dent Cleveland, and lived in Chicago. A few years after her marriage to Jones she suffered a stroke and was an invalid for the rest of her life. Died in Chicago in 1922 and is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Ill. near the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Jesse Root Grant Born February 6, 1858 at Hardscrabble, near St. Louis. Attended Cornell Univeristy, studying engineering. He also attended Columbia Law School. Married on September 30, 1880, to Elizabeth Chapman. Children: Nellie Grant Cronan, Chapman Grant. The marriage ended in divorce and on August 26, 1918 he married Lil- lian Burns Wilkins. Ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1925. Wrote the book In the Days of My Father, General Grant in 1925. Died on June 8, 1934 and is buried in San Francisco. Hannah Simpson Grant Jesse Root Grant U.S. Grants mother and father Early Years Ullysses S. Grant Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, and baptized Hiram Ulysses. The eldest son of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant, he came from a family that, he proudly declared, had been American "for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral." In 1823 his father moved his tanning business to Georgetown, Ohio, where "Lyss" spent his boy- hood. His education at a grammar school in Georgetown, at Maysville Seminary in Maysville, Ky., and at the Presbyterian Academy of Ripley, Ohio, was superficial and repetitious, and the boy showed no scholarly bent. He became noted, however, for his sturdy self-reliance and for his ability to ride and control even the wildest horses. Grant's second four years in the White House were not happy ones. A storm of scandal, which had started while the campaign was still under way, broke about his head. Leading Republican con- gressmen and officials were involved in railroad scandals; his whole party was implicated in the "salary grab" act (February-March 1873), which retroactively increased the pay of congressmen and the executive; and his secretary of war, William Worth Belknap, shared in Indian agency frauds. The president's private secretary, Orville E. Babcock, had a hand in the Whiskey Ring pec- ulations, and Grant, refusing to doubt his integrity, supported him to the last. Grant himself was not involved in the corruption, but when his close advisers proved faithless, the popular convic- tion grew that he was a failure as president. The last years of Grant's life were sad ones. Admirers collected a fund of $250,000, which they placed in trust for him; when the securities in which the fund was invested became worthless, however, he was so hard up for money that he had to sell his wartime swords and souvenirs. He became a partner in the brokerage firm of Grant & Ward, but like all his previous business ven- tures, it failed (May 6, 1884) and he went into bankruptcy. A move to have him restored to the rank of general, which he had resigned to run for the presidency, met political opposition and was not approved until the last day of Chester A. Arthur's administration (March 3, 1885). Grant had only a few months to enjoy the salary that Congress thus voted him. Afflicted with a cancer of the throat, the general was heroically trying to provide for his family during these last years. The success of an article on the Battle of Shiloh, which he wrote for the Century Magazine in 1884, led him to plan writing his own account of the war in which he had played so large a part. In his sickroom at Mount McGregor near Saratoga, N. Y., he composed the two volumes of personal recollections that remain one of the great war commentaries of all times. Published by Mark Twain, the Personal Memoirs ultimately brought the Grant family nearly $450,000 in royalties. Grant himself did not live to reap the reward. Exhausted from his heroic battle, he died quietly at Mount McGregor on July 23, 1885, and his body eventually found its last resting place in the great mausoleum (dedicated 1897) in New York City overlooking the Hudson River. Fast Fact: Biography: Late in the administration of Andrew Johnson, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the President and aligned himself with the Radical Republicans. He was, as the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War, their logical candidate for President in 1868. When he was elected, the American people hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor nor reform. Looking to Congress for direction, he seemed bewil- dered. One visitor to the White House noted "a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms." Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under Gen. Zachary Taylor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. He was appointed by the Governor to command an unruly volunteer reg- iment. Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. He sought to win control of the Mississippi Valley. In February 1862 he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." The Confederates sur- rendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers.
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