, 1881-08-07
OBITUARY..
0RTTLLE GRANT

MoRR1srowS, y. j., Aug. 6.-Orville L.
Grant, brother Of Gen. Grant, died at Morris
Plains Yesterday. lie was born at the Grant
family homestead III Clermont County, Ohio.
and was some seven or eight years his
brothers. junior. Like Ulysses and Simpson
he removed to Galena, and became member
of the firm of Grant j. Sons, the now historic
firm of leather-tauners. Simpson died, and
Oryi1le virtually controlled the business,
which soon worked up to a very profitable
one for those days. at least OlSsses
was employed by him, ana "as rs e. En-,
time Of the breaking out of the War. Dur,
iny his residence IN Galena, which lasted
antil about 1864, Orville succeeded III ac-
cumulating quite competency, and, on CON-
quite well otf. James E. Mclean, Penn
syIyanian who had followed the tannery
business down East, became acquainted with
him, and the result Of the acqualntance was
the firm name Of Grant & Mclean, The
house prospered, though it is SAID that
some of Orville's latter ventures were RISKY
and disastrous enough to have sWanlpeu
them eyenif the big fire of 1871 hadn't caught
them and completely wiped out their plant;
It is said that President Grant was well
aware of this, and that it was one OF the
probably the the fn'ef a,eecr by
Orville's ventures, Collector of the Port OF
Chicago in the summer Of 1SG9.
Oryille Grant was never the same man
after the re The visionary Part n}, 81 MS his
head was full Of wild speculatlons. Which,
Of course, never turned out well.
orvil!e had already begun to drInk, I k7arnd ana
him him Itil both mentally me and physically. OF late
reur; he has been utterly incapable Of taking
care Of his family, who. fortunately, were
provided for at the home OF ATS. Eor1ln, 4s Hls
%ifes ssteT at Eza6er 0r1je Giant & has been @
laSt Ns;es, vG or sM and 1eI mental Wreck. Ills hab
its, % Instead OF being checked, gFeW ds;t y;
upon him. and pa5aTay Esho1 or indeed for
hm }dSar tor IF sus1atneq anv kind 1 lis mind vas
1i]led with dreams and speculative fancles.
lie turned up in Chicago every once III
awhile, and was always sure 10 Go " ~ ~
Custoln-IIousc, where he was equally @ Sule nouv ~
Under the Mclean regime, who nlght M i; De d,
: relied upon-and generally waS-to help mn
out OF particularly tight pinch. " % one 3,t,, o.
his old friends he was Wont I? ttth tha enott enaxt
about his s5oo9 horse, e,ma1 al1o loap lG o WHICH
was generally given and never repaia
lie constantly Iabored under the IMPRESSION
that lie was still in the leather business. a,u ~,
was rich man. and trave1ed ,te1;on one coIA Would
tn{s dS1pG9sl11tGlaS oT # least tPat said he
one occasion after having borrowed SOME
thing from friend who had freoueHlly oeen 81
fnaneial G5se lnhirnities. h Just before the Grant
reception in the fall of 1878, numper
OF gentlemen in the city put their heaas . ~
gcther and managed to get MN out u nmIa snmn
before the auspicious day When lne ~ mnole 1n
Northwest turned out to welcome me IT, r.
turninr cx-President lie returned 10 u!e
city. however, early in $780, and, atter WIii- ~
deTine about awhile and existing as oess rnd nI
could. was given position in the keglsd1eeiieo & eit
Letter Department Of the Chicago fosl-yiiieett
from which he Was considerably removed tpa }ns1
before the Chicago Convention ,!i,. ntce .n..nt ,u
he las scarcely been seen here, havl1lg ;peii. u
his time mostly in New Jersey. lils WIZ VINE 10
said 10 be a very beautiful, Ieuneu, Ivu.o I.",o
woman. whose affections OF late years rs naso t,so
not unnaturally been centerea LILLY III I'LL She
BOYS Who we're the pride Of her heart EAR s;siaT ane
and 1hey have been cared for oy hel s'ste,, ,s,,
Ms corbn, as though they Ky werG fta er GMd AND
family, and it IS sad tlat 9atootten ne Or
Mrs Graut have not 1oIgoscn onict
yille's family, but that, III ,,a :, nnci'
transformations way, they have July July Enr
to add to their comfort and happlness, -, 70 nor
Oryile there seemed TO be neltneI, easo s veil
help. He had degenerated menla;il1f d. seanfs MH
as physically, and, though remstIaant remeu,a. in =
were resorted to, including .aarantiv .aeatnti past
New Jersey asylum, he was appahieo49{ pthe sa9 end
reclaim, and his death was but tne sao en''
ing Of a blasted life