Mississippi State University Scholars Junction USGPL Finding Aids Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library 9-28-2020 Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honoré Grant papers Mississippi State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usgpl-findingaids Recommended Citation Mississippi State University, "Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honoré Grant papers" (2020). USGPL Finding Aids. 9. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usgpl-findingaids/9 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Scholars Junction. It has been accepted for inclusion in USGPL Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of Scholars Junction. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers USGPL.FDGIHG This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 28, 2020. Mississippi State University Libraries P.O. Box 5408 Mississippi State 39762 [email protected] URL: http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollections Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers USGPL.FDGIHG Table of Contents Summary Information ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical Note ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Scope and Content Note ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................... 5 Controlled Access Headings ............................................................................................................................... 5 Related Collections ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Collection Inventory ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Series I: Correspondence ................................................................................................................................. 6 Ida Honore' Grant Austrian Correspondence .......................................................................................... 6 Ida Honore' Grant Austrian Correspondence ....................................................................................... 11 Ida Honore' Grant Austrian Correspondence ....................................................................................... 14 Fred and Ida Grant Incoming Austrian Correspondence .................................................................. 15 Fred and Ida Grant General Correspondence ....................................................................................... 22 Fred Grant Letterbooks ............................................................................................................................... 28 Series II: Speeches ........................................................................................................................................... 28 Fred Grant Speeches .................................................................................................................................... 28 Fred Grant Speeches .................................................................................................................................... 30 Pamphlets ........................................................................................................................................................ 31 Bound Speeches, Memorials, and Pamphlets ........................................................................................ 35 Series III: Poems and Songs .......................................................................................................................... 48 Handwritten Poems and Songs ................................................................................................................. 48 Published Poems and Songs ....................................................................................................................... 49 Series IV: Photographs .................................................................................................................................... 51 Series V: Newspaper Clippings ..................................................................................................................... 52 Series VI: Scrapbooks ...................................................................................................................................... 53 Sub-Series 1: Correspondence ................................................................................................................... 53 Sub-Series 2: Speeches, Poems, and Related Correspondence .......................................................... 61 Sub-Series 3: Decoration Day Photographs, May 31, 1886 ................................................................. 63 Sub-Series 4: Newspaper Clippings .......................................................................................................... 65 Series VII: Oversize ......................................................................................................................................... 65 Oversize Materials Moved from All Series ............................................................................................ 66 - Page 2 - Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers USGPL.FDGIHG Summary Information Repository: Mississippi State University Libraries Creator: Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 Creator: Grant, Ida, 1854-1930 Creator: Cantacuzene, Julia, Princess, 1876-1975 Creator: Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.), 1881-1968 Creator: Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902 Title: Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers ID: USGPL.FDGIHG Date [bulk]: 1853-1923 Physical 10 Cubic Feet Description: Language of the Correspondence, ephemera, and other documents found in this Material: collection are in English, French, and German, primarily, as well as other languages. ^ Return to Table of Contents Biographical Note General Frederick Dent Grant, eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant, was born May 30, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. He spent much of the Civil War alongside his father and he followed his father's footsteps by attending the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1866. He was a US Cavalry office, aide-de-camp to General William T. Sherman a staff officer to General Philip Sheridan, and a Cavalry officer with General George Custer. He resigned from the military and ran unsuccessfully in 1887 as the Republican nominee for New York Secretary of State. Two years later, he was appointed to the court of Franz Joseph I by President Benjamin Harrison in March 1889. Fred, his wife, Ida Honoré Grant, and their two children, Julia Dent Grant and Ulysses S. Grant III, set out from New York a month later and arrived in Vienna in early May. There they lived for the next four years. Ida Marie Honore Grant was born June 4, 1854 in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of a prominent Chicago real estate developer, Henry H. Honore. She was educaed at the Georgetown Visitation Convent in Washington, DC, where she graduated with honors. She - Page 3- Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers USGPL.FDGIHG returned to Chicago where she met Fred Grant and soon, she and Fred Grant married there on October 20, 1874. She joined her husband on his Mission to Vienna, Austria. The Grant family returned to the United States in 1893, and soonafter Fred rejoined the military, serving in the United States Army during the Spanish-American and Philippine– American Wars. After the wars ended, Fred continued to work for the War Department, particularly helping to mangaing the growth of the Civil War Battlefield monumentation. Fred was in high demand for addresses to Veterans associations and he traveled the nation speaking on his father's lagacy. Frederick Grant was named commander of the Eastern Division of the US Army and achieved the rank of Major General. He died in April 1912 at the age of 61. Following Fred's death in 1912, Ida moved for a time to Sarasota, Florida to her sister Bertha's housing development there before settling back in Washington, DC. Ida died in Washington in September 1930. ^ Return to Table of Contents Scope and Content Note The Frederick Dent Grant (FDG) and Ida Honore Grant (IHG) papers is made up of correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, scrapbooks, poems, news clippings, and other items that documents the lives of General Frederick Grant and his wife Ida Honore Grant. The correspondence in this collection comes from a variety of sources including correspondence related to Fred and Ida's time in Austria as Fred served as Minister to Austria-Hungary. it also includes correspondence from family and friends related to personal and political matters in the lives of the Grants, particularly the death of Fred's father, President Ulysses S. Grant. The items in this collection were donated to the US Grant Presidential Library from several sources, mainly Grant family descendants. The archivists of the USGPL collected the Fred and Ida papers together into one collection