Ulysses S. Grant
Fredrick Dent Grant
He was born May 30, 1850. He died of cancer on April 11, 1912. As a child he was with his father on the major battlefields of the Civil War. He graduated from West Point. He married a French daughter of wealth. He served as the New York City police commissioner, Minister to Austria-Hungary. He eventually advanced to the second highest rank in the U. S. army, becoming the second General Grant.
Ulysses Simpson "Buck" Grant, Jr.
He was born July 22, 1852 and he died September 25, 1929. Buck studied at Harvard, the University of Gottingen in Germany and Columbia Law School. He was a lawyer and tried his hand as a politician and businessman. He was briefly a White House secretary to his father, and much later made a bid for the U.S. Senate. It was a controversial campaign in which charges of bribery were unfairly leveled against him. Before his death, Buck Grant established himself anew in San Diego society and built the beautiful U. S. Grant Hotel.
Ellen Wrenshall "Nellie" Grant Sartoris Jones
She was born July 4, 1855 and died August 30, 1922. Nellie was 13 years old when her father became president and only 18 when she was married to the British diplomat Algernon Sartoris (pronounced "sartriss") in a extravagant White House wedding. The young couple had four children and became social elite's. Her husband turned out to be an alcoholic and womanizer. She obtained a divorce, returning to the States, a wealthy woman. Eventually, she remarried, but fell ill and was paralyzed during her last years.
Jesse Root Grant
He was born February 6, 1858 and died June 8, 1834. Jesse was an author, engineer and world traveler. His most famous jaunt abroad may have been his around-the-world trip with his father following the White House years. He fathered two children. He eventually divorced his first wife and remarried. At one point he made a bid for the presidency, but the press and the country ignored his candidacy.
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