Ulysses S. Grant - Early Life & Family

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Contents 1 Biography Index 2 Early life 3 Family 4 References

Biography Index

• Ulysses S. Grant - Index / Quick Reference
• Ulysses S. Grant - Overview
• Ulysses S. Grant - Early Life & Family
• Ulysses S. Grant - Military Career & Time Between Wars
• Ulysses S. Grant - Civil War
• Ulysses S. Grant - Reconstruction
• Ulysses S. Grant - Presidency 1869–1877
• Ulysses S. Grant - Post presidency

Early life

On April 27, 1822, Grant was born in a log cabin in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, 25 miles (40 km) east of Cincinnati on the Ohio River. He was the eldest of the six children of Jesse Root Grant (1794–1873) and Hannah Simpson Grant (1798–1883). His father, a tanner from Pennsylvania, was descended from an English immigrant to Massachusetts, Matthew Grant (1601-1681).^[1] His mother was born in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania. At birth, Grant was named Hiram Ulysses.^[2] In the fall of 1823, the family moved to the village of Georgetown in Brown County, Ohio.

Family

On August 22, 1848, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent (1826–1902), the daughter of a slave owner and cousin of Confederate General James Longstreet. It was incidentally Longstreet who introduced Grant to his wife while serving in the Fourth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.^[3] They had four children: Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (Buck), Ellen Wrenshall Grant (Nellie), and Jesse Root Grant.

References

1. ↑ Evelyn H. Walker, "Ulysses S. Grant: Man of Silence," in Leaders of the 19th Century with Some Noted Characters of Earlier Times (Chicago: A.B. Kuhlman Co., 1900), 279; Ulysses S. Grant Ass'n, "Geneaology of Ulysses S. Grant," http://twister.lib.siu.edu/projects/usgrant/hist/ahg-genea.html.
2. ↑ Simpson, p. 2
3. ↑ Smith, p. 73.

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