police commissioner for New York city in 1894. He resigned in 1897 and on the declaration of war between the United States and Spain he was appointed by Governor Black, colonel of the 14th New York volunteers and accompanied the regiment to Camp Black, N. Y., and afterward to Chickamauga, Tenn. President McKinley commissioned him a brigadier-general in the volunteer army, May 27, 1898, and he led his brigade in the campaign in Cuba and afterward in the campaign against the Filipinos. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in the regular service by President McKinley, his promotion being confirmed by the U.S. senate, Dec. 20, 1899. His son, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., was appointed by President McKinley in 1898 a cadetat-large to the U.S. military academy, his grandfather having left an open letter to "the President of the United States," dated, April 3, 1885, asking for such an appointment, the letter having been endorsed by General Sherman under date, Feb. 1, 1887.

GRANT, James Benton, governor of Colorado, was born in Russell county, Ala., Jan. 2, 1848. He served for one year in the Confederate army when sixteen years of age, and after the war removed to Iowa. He was educated in the Iowa agricultural college, at Cornell college and at the school of mines, Freiburg, Saxony. He settled in Denver, Col., in 1876, and became interested in mines and smelting furnaces in Gilpin county and in Leadville, and in 1882 joined his business with that of another company which was known thereafter as the Omaha & Grant Smelting company, of which he was vice-president. He was governor of Colorado in 1883-85, having been elected by the Democratic party.

GRANT, Julia Dent, wife of President Grant, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 26, 1826; daughter of Frederick and Ellen (Wrenshall) Dent. She attended the boarding school of Miss Moreau in St. Louis, 1836-44, and the latter year became engaged to Lieut. U. S. Grant, then stationed with the 4th U.S. infantry at Jefferson barracks, and they were married Aug. 22, 1848, after the return of Grant, a captain, from the Mexican war. She spent most of the first four years of her married life in camp with her husband, who was stationed at Detroit, Mich., and Sacket Harbor, N.Y. When he was ordered to the Pacific coast she returned to her home in St. Louis and in 1854 she was joined by her husband who had resigned from the army. She shared with him the domestic hardships and privations of the next six years and in 1860 they removed with their children to Galena, Ill., where in 1861 Captain Grant entered the volunteer army and rapidly rose to command the armies of the United States. She accompanied him in many

emy; Ulysses S. settled in California; Jesse made his home with his mother, and Nellie was married in 1874 to Algernon Sartoris and lived in England till 1895 when she returned to the United States with her children and in 1898 by special act of congress, was restored to her citizenship. At the request of her husband it was provided that after the death of Mrs. Grant her body should find sepulture in the same tomb that held his own, and in constructing the Grant tomb at Riverside park, New York city, provision was thus made. In 1898, she accepted the presidency of the Woman's national war relief association, organized for service in the war with Spain. She died in Washington, Dec. 14, 1902.

GRANT, Lewis Addison, soldier, was born in Bennington county, Vt., Jan. 17, 1829; son of James and Betsey (Wyman) Grant; grandson of Jacob, and great-grandson of Joseph Grant of Wrentham, Mass. His mother descended from the Wymans of Woburn, Mass. He was educated at Townsend and Chester, Vt., and engaged in the practice of law at Bellows Falls, Vt. In 1861 he organized the 5th regiment, Vermont volunteer infantry, was commissioned its major, Aug. 15, 1861, its lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 25, 1861, and its colonel, Sept. 16, 1862. He took comm and of the "Old Vermont Brigade" in February, 1863, and continued in command most of the time until the close of the war. The brigade was actively engaged in nearly every important battle of the Army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley, and its losses from killed and wounded in battle were said to have been greater than those of any other brigade of the Federal army. He was promoted brigadier-general of

volunteers, April 27, 1864, and brevetted majorgeneral, Oct. 19, 1864, for his action at the battle of Cedar Creek, in which battle he was in command of the 2d division of the 6th corps, which included the Vermont brigade. It was this division that checked the advance of Early's army in the morning and alone held it in check for an hour, until ordered back to take a new position. It was this division and Merritt's cavalry that Sheridan found fighting unsupported when he came upon the field, and it was on this division that the line was formed from which the victorious charge was made in the afternoon. After the war he was one of the organizers of the New England loan and trust company and was at the head of that institution for several years. In April, 1890, he was made assistant secretary of war by President Harrison, which position he resigned in December, 1893.

GRANT, Robert, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1852; eldest son of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant. He was a Franklin medal scholar at the Boston Latin school, was graduated from Harvard in 1873, continued his studies there, and received the

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degree of Ph.D. in 1876 and that of LL.B. in 1879. He settled in Boston to practice law and divided his time between that profession and literature. He became private secretary to Mayor Green of Boston in 1882; was appointed water commissioner by Mayor O'Brien in 1888, and in April, 1889, was reappointed for a term of three years. In 1893 he became judge of the Suffolk probate court and court of insolvency by appointment of Governor Russell. While an under graduate at Harvard he edited the Harvard Advocate and during his law course he edited the Harvard Lampoon. His published writings in clude: The Little Tin Gods on Wheels (1879); The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl (1880); The Lambs (1882); An Average Man (1883); The King's Men in collaboration with others (1884); The Knave of Hearts (1885); A Romantic Young Lady (1886); Face to Face (1886); Jack Hall, or the School Days of an American Boy (1887); Jack in the Bush (1888); The Reflections of a Married Man (1892); The Opinions of a Philosopher (1893); The Art of Living (1895): The Bachelor's Christmas (1895); and Search-Light Letters (1899), besides poems and prose contributed to various periodicals

GRANT, Ulysses Simpson, eighteenth President of the United States, was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822; the eldest son of Jesse Root and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; grandson of Capt. Noah and Rachel (Kelly) Grant, and of John Simpson of Montgomery county, Pa.; great-grandson of Noah and Susannah (Delano) Grant, and of John Simpson, an early settler in Pennsylvania; great grandson of Noah and Martha (Huntington) Grant; great grandson of Samuel and Grace (Miner) Grant; great grandson of Samuel and Mary (Porter) Grant; and great grandson of Matthew and Priscilla Grant who left Plymouth, England on the ship Mary and John, landed at Nantasket, Mass., and purchased land of the Indians at East Windsor Hill, Conn., where the settlement and the farm re

ANCIENT GRANT HOMESTEAD, 1697-1897, EAST WINDSOR HILL, CONN. mained the property of the Grant family and in 1900 was occupied by Roswell Grant. In the homestead built in 1697 the descendants of Matthew Grant have lived in peace except for two years during the Revolutionary war, when it was used as a prison for captured British officers. His father was a tanner and also was the owner of a small farm at Point Pleasant, and Ulysses, preferring farm work and driving horses to work in the tannery, was indulged in his preference. and besides conducting the farm and grinding bark at the tannery, he cared for the horses, did the teaming and carried passengers between the neighboring towns. He attended the subscription school of the village and was sent for the term, 1836-37, to the academy at Maysville, Ky. His father was ambitious to give his eldest son a better education than the neighborhood afforded and as the boy had saved over $100 of his earnings with which to pay his entrance fees to some school, he consulted with Ulysses as to his preference and the boy selected the U.S. military academy at West Point. His father wrote to Senator Samuel Morris at Washington, applying for an appointment, and was referred to Representative Thomas