Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-09

following interesting biographical sketch Of
Lieut.. Gen. Grant, contributed by Hon. Eben
Newton, State Senator from the Mahoniug Dis.
trict. who had an intimate acqusutanc with the
family as far back as 1sl8
jesse r Grant, The father of General
Grant. was boru on the 22d day of JaDu.
ary, l794, in Westmoreland County, Pa.
HIS mother was al $50 a native of Pe1nsyl.
vania His grandfather was born in
Windham, Connecticut
He, with his family, moved to Ohio in
1877, to Cvlpmbiaua County. In 1904
the family moved to Portage County, Ohio,
where the grandmother Of General Grant
died. am also acquainted with bis moth.
er. She is sky Eve years old Jesse r.
Grnnt carried on tbe tanning business ut
Ravenna uutIl 1920, when he moved to
Southern Ohio; aud in June, 1921, he was
married to Miss Simpson, of Clermout
County, and settled a. Mount Pleasant, a
small village in Ohio, on the river. twenty.
five miles above Cincinnati, where Ulysses
Simpson Grant was borne, on the 81 b day
of April, 1922.
In the spring Of 1923, Mr.. Grant moved
to Georgetown, the county seat of B own
county, and permanently settled himself 10
tanning business. Ulysses, as be grew up.
was good boy for work, fond of school,
and learned rapidly when he could get an
opportunity Of attending school.
His father was 10 moderate circumstnn.
ces and after Ulysses was ten years old,
be had only ap opportunity of attending
school 10 The district for about three mouths.
IN early childhood be manifested a great
fonduess for the harse aud before be was
teighl years old he would break young horses
TO ride aud work.
Atthe age of seventeen he expressed o
strong desire for an education his father
suggested West Point, which met his views
exactly, and application was made through
Hon. Thomas L. Hamer, then member
OF Congress from that District. He was
selected as q Cadet and entered the Military
Academy Oh the LIST Of July, 1889, in q
class of about one hundred, he being the
only Que who had not studied the course. at
least one year, and many of them we're
graduates of colleges. He passed an ex'
animation. Only thirty nine of the class
: GRADUATED, Young Graut graduated in the
middle OF bis class Oh The 30th of June,
IS43.
Gen. VIM Franklin, at the head of the
class, Gen Qnimby, No Q, Gen. l | Peck,
No. 7, l. Raybold, No. 10, Gen. G. @.
Auger, No l6, next young Grant, then
c. c. Hamilton. No 25, Geu. Fred Steele,
No. 80, Gen. Rufus Ingles, No. 80, and
Ii. M. Induk, No. SO, Gen. Ripley, Gen.
French, of New jersey, Gen. Gardner, OF
Iowa, Gen. H lloway, of Kentucky. All
alter Gen Grant, although from loyal
States, are Generals or have been, IN the
rebel army believe. Holloway was killed
early in the war uear j, fferSon City.
At West Point yonng Grant was con.
J sidered the best horseman in the class
t After he graduated be was attached to the
i 4th Regiment U S Infantry, then station
4 I'd at Jeifel son Barracks, near ST. Louis,
. In the summer of 1914. the 4rh Regiment
was removed to Nachitoches, aud in lS45
to Corpus Christi, hen Lieut.. Grant was
promoted TO LIST Lieutenant on the goth
, of September, l845 He served uuder Gen.
Taylor 10 the Mexican war, aud partcpa-
Ted 10 the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de
la Palma, and Monterey, and with Gen.
Scott from Vera Cruz TO the city of Mexi
CO. He was TWICE brevetted for gallant
) services, receiving the rank of brevet Cap
3 tain for meritorious conduct on the 18Th
of September, at the stormiOg of Chepul
| tepec. He was iD all of Gems. Scott and
. Tayl ylor's battles, some fourteen in nun
Der, aud, ] think, was more highly eulo
q gized by bis commanding Generals thar
q any other officer as may be seen by tht
Report of the Secretary of War in lS48
. After the conclusion of the Mexican war
n the 4th Infantry returned 10 the Atlantis
J, States, and had its headquarters al petro
!. aud Sackett's Harbor, where Grant wa
g retained as Qar'e master Of the Regiment
g In 1852, the 4th Regiment was ordered t'
n Oregon, when Grant was promoted TO I
a full Captaincy in the Regular Army, II
August. 1852, aud assigned to compan.
!, iour .hundred miles 10 the interior OF Cali
!, tOrnia and having been then two year
4 from his family, resigned and came home
settled in ST Louis County. and engages
b iu farming. Not succeeding very well, h
- removed TO Gaena, Illinois, aud went int
!, the leather business in his fathers store
eI established at that place.
% Wueu tue news Vi TUG s'o'Wus W
NJ Sumter reached him, he said the govern
o ment had educated him for the army. an'
/. although be had served thyopgh one wal
T. be was still 10 debt to the government, an
81 was willing TO discharge the debt. lie In
" uediately enlisted, raised company. wen
II 10 Springfield, and mustered them int
r. service. He was then sPpointed Adjutar
,e General aud Mastering O1icer for Stat
troops.
a. About the middle Of dune, 1851. be wer
,e TO CoyingI oo, K.ntucky. TO visit his p'
n rents, who had removed to that city, 40
d who nov reside there. And while ther
4 Gov. Yates. Of Illinois. ,slegraphed 10 hi
~ an appoint ment OF Colosel Of The 81
s. Regiment Of llinois Volunteer Infantry. an
3 wished him TO come az once aud take oi'Ars
10 fit This rsgl~sns were three consa