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Jesse Root Grant | 23 JAN 1794 -- 29 JAN 1873 | ![]() |
Hannah Simpson | 23 NOV 1798 -- 11 MAY 1883 | ![]() |
Frederick Fayette Dent | 8 OCT 1786 -- 15 DEC 1873 | ![]() |
Ellen Bray Wrenshall | abt 1792 -- 7 JAN 1857 | ![]() |
Marriage | 22 AUG 1848 | ![]() |
Birth | 27 APR 1822 | |||
Education | 1843 | ![]() | ||
Military | USA Army / General / US Civil War | ![]() | ||
Historical Events | 4-6-1862 | Shiloh General, USA | ![]() | |
29 APR 1862 | Siege of Corinth | ![]() | ||
5/18/1863 | Vicksburg | ![]() | ||
7 MAY 1864 | the Wilderness | ![]() | ||
5-8-1864 | Spotsylvania Court House | ![]() | ||
Jun 1864 | Cold Harbor | ![]() | ||
6-9-1864 | Petersburg | ![]() | ||
29 MAR 1865 | Appomattox Campaign | ![]() | ||
Election | 1868 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Occup | 1869-1877 | ![]() | ||
Election | 1872 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Death | 23 JUL 1885 | Cause: cancer | ||
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Grant is the best known of the presidents we are discussing. A military hero perhaps better known than any other, his name is a household word. Born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, he came of a family of middle-class means. There is virtually nothing of religion or church affiliation in the Grant family history. Jesse Grant, his father, was not a church member and does not seem to have ever attended church. Grant received the best education Ohio had to offer and was later appointed to West Point. There he finished in the middle of his class, ahead of Jefferson Davis and well ahead of many who became well-known Civil War generals.
Grant's first assignment was a post in Missouri outside of St. Louis. There he met a well-to-do... Read More
Birth | 26 JAN 1826 | |||
Occup | 1869-1877 | USA First Lady | ![]() | |
Death | 14 DEC 1902 | |||
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Children | First Name | Birth Dt | Death Dt | Birth Place | Spouses | |
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1+ | Frederick Dent | 05/30/1850 | 11 APR 1912 | MO, St Louis City | Ida Marie Honoré | |
2+ | Ulysses S. | 22 JUL 1852 | 25 SEP 1929 | OH | America Workman, Josephine Chaffee | |
3+ | Ellen Wrenshall "Nellie" | 4 JUL 1855 | 30 AUG 1922 | MO, Wistonwisch | Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, Franklin Hatch Jones | |
4+ | Jesse Root | 02/06/1858 | 8 JUN 1934 | MO, St Louis City | Lillian Burns, Elizabeth Chapman |
Name | Years | Relation | ||
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![]() | Gen. Robert Edward Lee | Civil War adversary | ||
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![]() | William Tecumseh Sherman | military officer | ||
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William Henry Harrison Terrell | peronal valet | |||
![]() | Wilmer McLean | 1865 | host at Civil War surrender | |