The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-04-14
MlstellantoNs.
Sketch of Gen, Grant.


a sketch Of Gen. Grant, from which we
extract:
Jesse r. Grant, the father of General
Grant, was born on the 23d day Of Janu.
Ory, 1904, in Westmoreland county,
Penn. His mother was also a native of
Pennsylvania. His grandfather was
born in Windham, Connecticut.
He, with his family, moved to Ohio
in 1899, to COlumbiana county. In
1904 the family moved to Portage
county, Ohio, where the grandmother
of Gen. Grant died. His mother is
sixty-fve years old. Jesse r. Grant
carried on the tanning business at Ra.
VIENNA, until 1920, when he moved to
Southern Ohio; and in June, 1921, he
was married 10 Miss Simpson, of Cler-
mont county, and settled at Mount
Pleasant, a small village in Ohio, on the
river, twenty-five miles above Cincin-
natl, where Ulysses Simpson Grant was
born, on the 9th day of April, 1922.
In the spring of 1923, Mr.. Grant
moved to Georgetown, the county seat
OF Brown county, and permanently set.
tied himself in the tanning business.
Ulysses, as he grew up, was a good boy
for work, fond of school, and learned
rapidly when he could get an opportu.
nifty of attending school.
His father was then in moderate cir.
cumstances; and after Ulysses was ten
years old, he had only an opportunity
Of attending school in the district for
about three months. In early child
hood he manifested great fondness for
the horse; and before he was eight years
old he wound break young horses to ride
and work.
AT the age of seventeen he expressed
a strong desire for an education; his
father suggested West Point, which m ct
his views exactly, and application was
made through Hon. Thomas L. Hamer,
then member of Congress frsm that
district. He was selected as a Cad,t
and entered the Military Academy on
the lst Of July, 1889, in a class of
about one hundred, he being the only
one who had not studied the course at
least one year, and many of them were
graduates of Colleges. He passed an
examination. Only thirty-nine Of the
class graduated. Young Grant grad
uated in the middle Of his class on 3Oth
of June, 1913.
In the same class we find the names
of Gen. VIM, B. Franklin, at the head
of the class, Gen. Quinby, No. Q, Gen.
1. l. Peck, No. Z, 1. I, Raybold, No.
10, Con. G. G. Anger, No. 16, next
young Grant, then G. c. Hamilton, No.
20, Gen. Fred. Steele, No. 80, Gen.
Rufus Inglcs, No. 80, and H. NJ. Induk,
No. 36, Gen. Ripley, Gen. French, of
New Jersey, Gen. Gardner, of Iowa,
Gen. Holloway, of Kentucky. All
after Grant, although from loyal States,
are Generals, or have been, IN the rebel
army, I believe. Holloway was killed
early in the war near Jefferson City.
At West Point young Grant was
considered the best horaonnan in the
class. After he graduated he was at.
taehed to the 4th Regiment United
States Infantry.
X Il 4 X X
After giving account of Grants SER
vices in tho Mexican war; his resigna-
tion after the war was over, and his
engaging in business in Galcna, III.
the sketch continues:
When the news of the storming OF
Fort Sumter reached him, he said the
Government had educated him for the
army, and although he had served
through one war, he was still in debt
to the Government, and was willing to
discharge the debt. He Immediately
enlisted, raised a company, went to
Springfield, and mustered thom into
service. He was then appointed Adju-
tnnt General and Mastering Officer for
State troops. x X X
His subsequent promotion and sue
cess is a matter of recent history and
familiar to all; and is unparalleled in
history for one of his ago, and even for
one ofany age. He has been in over
thirty battles, and lost no one; has taken
about 100000 prisoners, 472 cannon,
and about $4,000 stands of armsi Sue.
cess seems to be natural for him. A
distinguished General, in writing tc
his father says, "he (GranD is the
greatest fighting General of the age,
and his. success forcibly illustrates thii
truth. His general traits Of sharaotei