IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR “COUSINS” …

CIVIL WAR HERO TO POST-WAR PRESIDENT Ulysses Simpson (1822 – 1885)

— Bradley Rymph

Ulysses S. Grant rose from humble beginnings name, “Simpson,” as if it were Grant’s middle on an farm to lead the Union armies to name. victory in the Civil War in 1865. Three years later — with his popularity soaring as a Grant did not like military life and did not military hero, with dead, and plan to make a career of the army. with the new President, , Nevertheless, he served through the Mexican facing impeachment — he was elected to his War, fighting in almost every battle of the first of two terms as U.S. President. war, then served a tour of duty on the Pacific Coast at the Isthmus of Panama. Grants’ birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. When he was appointed to the United States In 1854, Grant resigned from the army and Military Academy at West Point at the age of returned home to a farm near St. Louis, 17, the Congressman who nominated him given to him by his father-in-law. Unable to didn’t know Grant’s full name. He left out make farming pay, he shifted a few years “Hiram” and added his mother’s maiden later to selling real estate, then to assisting his father’s leather business in Galena, Illinois. Text © 2010, 2011, by Bradley B. Rymph

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HOW WE’RE RELATED: Ulysses S. Grant

= Priscilla Grey = ▼ ▼ = Priscilla Grant Samuel Grant = Mary Porter = (9/14/1626 – ?) (11/12/1631 – 9/10/1718) = (1638 – 12/16/1681) ▼ ▼ Samuel Humphrey = Mary Buell Mills Samuel Grant = Grace Miner (5/15/1656 – 6/15/1736) = (12/8/1662 – 1730) (4/20/1659 – 5/8/1710) = (9/20/1670 – 4/16/1753) ▼ ▼ Samuel Humphrey = Mary Tuller Noah Grant = Martha Huntington (5/17/1686 – 1759) = (11/27/1692 – c. 1714) (12/16/1693 – 10/10/1727) = (12/9/1696 – 8/26/1779) ▼ ▼ Abel Humphrey = Jemima Warner Noah Grant = Susannah Delano (3/13/1713-14 – ?) = (? – ?) (7/12/1718 – 9/201756) = (6/23/1724 – 8/16/1806) ▼ ▼ Ozias Humphrey = Mary Parsons Noah Grant = Rachel (Miller) Kelly (1753 – 12/22/1826) = (c. 1756 – 2/12/1809) (6/20/1748 – ?) = (? – 4/10/1805)

?▼? ▼ Ozias Humphrey = Clarissa Barber Jesse Root Grant = Hannah Simpson (c. 1779 – 11/18/1805) = (1780 – 3/18/1805) (1/23/1794 – 6/29/1873) = (11/23/1798 – 5/11/1883)

?▼? ▼ Ira Walter = Mary (“Polly”) Humphrey Ulysses Simpson Grant = Julia Boggs Dent (11/18/1798 – 3/10/1873) = (c. 1803 – 8/31/1851) (4/27/1822 – 7/23/1885) = (1/26/1826 – 12/14/1902) ▼ Isaac E. Heath = Caroline Amelia Walter (9/4/1832 – 5/18/1912) = (10/20/1830 – 12/31/1899) ▼ = Harriet Myers (4/14/1858 – 4/26/1944) = (4/22/1858 – 7/20/1930) ▼ = Ethel Catherine Bradley (4/8/1891 – 1/28/1979) = (7/14/1891 – 7/22/1973) ▼ Albert James Rymph = Edna Mae Heath (11/9/1925 – 2/16/2019) = (living) ▼ Bradley Budd Rymph = José Verzosa Baquiran III (living) = (living)

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant Reconstruction and supported the enactment took responsibility for drilling volunteers in of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Galena. As the men he led grew in numbers, which stipulates that “right of citizens of the skills, and successes, Grant caught President United States to vote shall not be denied or Lincoln’s notice. After his troops captured abridged … on account of race, color, or Vicksburg in July 1863, Grant was given previous condition of servitude.” command of all the federal armies in the Unfortunately, his two terms as President West. Meanwhile, the war in the East had were also plagued by scandal, which led been going badly for the Union. In March Grant to decide, reluctantly, not to see a third 1864, Lincoln appointed Grant lieutenant term. general of the federal armies. Within little more than a year, Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Grant, and the Confederacy TO LEARN MORE was defeated. Ulysses S. Grant Association. Ulysses S. Grant In 1866, Congress rewarded Grant by giving Presidential Collection. “Ulysses S. Grant him the rank of full general — the first Genealogy.” (http://library.msstate.edu/ person designated as such since George usgrant/genealogy.asp) Washington. Wikipedia. “Ulysses S. Grant.” (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant) As President from 1869 to 1877, Grant worked to advance the South’s 2013-05-01