Nebraska advertiser., 1864-04-07
GENERAL GRANT.

Zen. Grant was born al Point Plea
SAINT, ClermOnt county, Ohio. on the 9th
day Of April. 1922, and is consequently
only ia his foriy-second year. HIS faith
er, Jesse R. Grant, tanner by trade. is
native of Pennsylvania, and was born
In WestmOreland county in 1894. and is
now living at Covingion, Kentucky. The
Grant family is OF Scotch extraction.-
In the early para of the sixteenth CEN
thry two brothers emigraled from Scot
land to the colonies. One settled in
Connecticut and the other in New Jer.
sey. From the one who located in the
5Sfuer colony hsye sprung thesG saass of
the North, aud from tie one in the laller
The Grants of the South.
The mother of Gen. Grant was Han
nah Simpson, a woman remarkable for
good sense, attention to her domestic
duties. and serious Christian character,
blended with easy manners. She Is
type of the mothers who produced The
heroes Of the Revolution. In 1918 she
removed, with her father, John Simpson.
from Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
where she was born, to CIermont county,
Ohio, and was welded in June. 1921, TO
her present husband. Ulysses is the
irst child born of that marriage, and the
|'S,'' in his name stands for Simpson,
the name Of his mothers family. 1t is
significant, however, that the initials
u. S." stand for the United States and
: Unconditional Surrender" by which
sobriquet he Is so well and popularity
known in the army.
Jesse R. Grant emigrated with his
fathers family to the Northwestern Ter
ritery in 1899, and settled in what is now
Columbia county. Ohio. In 1904 the
family removed to Deer6eld, in what is
now Portage county. Jesse subsequent
ly went to Ravenna. and for few years
carried on tannery there. In 1920 he
located in southwestern Ohio, where, as
we have seen, his llIuslrious son was
born.
In father and son that mixture of cor.
diality with reserve, Of resolution with
caution, and earnestness with soberness
so prominent in Scotch character, are so
striking that one might reckon on a more
imrsediats foreign extraction. Like his
traitOrous opponent, Joe Johnston, though
American for several generations, Gen
eral Grant is Scotch in macy of his
qualities. In his boyhood be always
exhibited business turn, and was never
without some particular purpose in hand
requiring responsibility, perseverance,
and zeal-serious enough for one mature
in years. An incident in point will illus
trate this.
AT the age of twelve he aspired TO the
management of his fathers draughl team,
and was entrusted with it for the pur-
pose of hauling some heavy hewed logs.
which were to be loaded with The aid of
levers and the usual appliances by sever
al stout men. He came with his team
and found the logs, but not the men. A
boy of more imaginative genius, and of
equal bat differently directed contrivance
might have laid down TO listen or dream.
or build houses Of chips. Not SO with
this boy, who, unlike others. acted upon
tie idea that where there was a will
there was way, and hesitaled not at
the undertaking. Observing a fallen
tree, having gradual upward slope, he
unhitched his horses, attached them TO a
log, drew 1t horizontally to the tree, and
then drew one end of it up the inclined
trunk, higher than the wagon truck, and
so as to protect few feet over, and thus
continued TO operate until he had brought
several to this position. Next he backed
the wagon under the projecting ends,
and finally, one by one, hitched to and
drew the logs lengthwlse across the fall
en- trunk on TO his wagon, hiiohod Up
again, and returned with his load to his
astonished father.
This anecdote is well remembered by
old citizens of Georgeton, Brown county,
Ohio, where Grant spent his early boy
hood. This incident, being similar to
many others, will not admit of any inter-
probation other than evidencing an Origi-
nal aud uncommon power OF adapting
measures to conditions.
Rev. G. D., of Fayette county.
Arkansas, one of the genuine forest born
csators a rparhsnO not Ionr SINCE on