The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-09
THE GRANT FAMILY.
Some Gossip Regarding their Pres
emit Circumstances.
WHAT THE SONS ARE DOING.

mentS all Given UP anu tne Eoys DoA"b
More Proof-Reading than Anything Else.
Special to THE TIMES.
New York, Jan. MANY and curious are
the glances cast by visitors to Riverside Park at
bowed figurein deep mourning which neither
cold winds nor wintry blasts deter from regu-
lar visits to the sentry guarded tomb OF Grant,
and the curious who ask are informed
that this is the sorrowing widow Of the late
general and then her grief is respected by
the careless lookers-on, and the yelled figure
passes in and out of the tomb with the heart
felt sympathy of the before unsympathetic
crowd.
MRS. JULIA D. GRANT.
1t is nearly So years since the young
and penniless lieutenant of &c won the hand
of Miss Julia Dent and married her in her
fathers house at st. Louis in spite Of the said
fathers wishes that O son-in-law in better
circumstances could be found.
Mrs Grant is the grandmother of nine chill
dren, three of whom, together with their
parents, Colonel Fred and wife and Jesse and
wife, live with her in her home at No. 3 East
Sixty-sixth street, at this time the hand
some brown stone house near Filth avenue
which was presented to Mrs. Grant by her
friends in Philadelphia and which it has
been enormously stated had passed into the
hands of creditors together with other prop
erty This house cost 500, 900, S55,000 of
which was paid down, and mortgage for
the balance is held by an insurance company
of this city. A sum was laid away to meet
the mortgage, but was swallowed up in the
Ward crash, and it consequently hangs over
the property still. Mrs. Grant will receive
the pension of 5000 per year voted her by
Congress, and also the S15,O per annum IN
terest on the Grant fund of $250.000, which
interest is now being paid out of the estate of
Ex-Governor Morgan, who guaranteed the
interest when the principal was invested IN
Wabash railroad bonds. This guarantee will
expire in few years, however, and unless
Wabash stock is better than it has been for
some time, there will probably not be very
much interest drawn from it. The memoirs
of the general a1e finding very large sale,
and considerable will accrue to Mrs. Grant
from this source if the sale continues as well
as it has started out Under these circum-
stances it is more than likely that the mort
gage upon the home in this city will be lifted
in time by the family.
JESSE GRANT.
Mr.. Jesse R. Grant, the vomSszs q the
sons, and the favored one who accom- anied
his father and mother upon their famous
tour around the world, went 70 Europe last
summer in the interest ofsome capitalists who
were looking after large conce Ion ofland
in the valley of the Euphrates, to be granted
for contemplated improvements in the said
valley, but owing TO the breaking out of hos
tilities between Prince Alexander and King
Milan, ana the subsequent trouble IN Bul-
garia, Servia, and the breasts OF all interested
parties to the never-ending Eastern question,
he returned to America without gaining the
desired point, stock in the Euphrates idea
having gone down in proportion as the rising
anger of the two little rival kingdoms went
up. Thus the Servian war sent Mr.. jesse
Grant home again, and he IS now engaged
with his two brothers, Fred and Buck, in
reading proof for the next volume of the
memoirs. Jesse and his wife, who was o
Miss Lizzie Chapman, of San Francisco, and
whom he married in 1881 at her fathers
house there, together with their one child
Nellie, named after Mrs. Sartoris, reside at
the home of Mrs. Julia Grant, having given
up their separate establishment in this city
after the Ward failure. Jesse's father-in-law,
Mr. Chairman, is well up in this world
goods, although not remarkably wealthy, and
still resides in San Francisco, We understand,
far away from the wiles ofthe Gotham specu-
Iators, into whose clutches his son-in-law
Jesse fell in time to get bankrupted, as he
only entered the Ward deal about three
months previous to the failure.
MRS. ULYSSES s. GRANT, JR.
Mrs. u. s. Grant, Jr., once Miss
Fannie Chaffee but who gave her heart and
hand to U. S. Grant, Jr., better known as
Buck, and whose brilliant marriage took
place in this city in October, 1881, is still re-
membered by those who were fortunate
enough to get invitations. She was married
in her fathers house on Fifty-eighth street,
which house was afterwards sold, becoming
too small for their needs, and the proceeds in
vested in the Ward contracts. Senator Chaffee
having presented the house to his daughter r,
who is his only child, and who will event
ualIy be the richest heiress in the family, it is
supposed. She and her husband reside at
present at their country seat, near this city,
in Westchester county, which was also given
to her by her father, the senator. There was
q good deal of newspaper talk about match
that was broken off between U. S. Grant, Jr.,
and Miss Flood, of San Francisco, at the time
of his marriage with Miss Chaflee, but this is
denied by intimate friends of the family who
ought TO know all about it.
Mrs U. S. Grant, Jr., is the mother of three
children, two girls. Miriam and Julia Dent,
and one son, Chaffee Grant They have
given up their expensive establishment at
Morristown and live more quietly at the
country seat. 1t is said by those who ought
to know that the family expenses of Ulysses,
Jr., footed up about S4O,O year during the
supposed successful operations of Grant d
Ward, and when it was supPosed he was very
rich man. However, as his tather-in-law,
the senator, lost nearly half million, and
his wife large sum, together with himself,
in the failure, it is thought by most people
that perhaps it was well that some of the
money was enjoyed by himself and family
instead of going into the general fund that
has disappeared, nobody knows where.
MRS. COL. FRED GRANT.
Col. Fred and his wife are also living at the
house on Sixty-sixth street, having given up
their separate establishment since the failure.
Mrs. Fred Grant is one Of the handsomest
members of the Grant family, and was mar
ried to Col. Fred at her fathers house in Chi
cago in October, 1874. She was Miss Ida Ho-
more, second daughter of Henry III. Honore,
at one time estimated as worth two millions,
but whose business house and residence also
were destroyed by the great fire of 1871 in
Chicago, which crippled him materially, al
though while the fire was yet burning he
telegraphed for the stone to erect new busi-
ness block, and had an immense building
ready for occupancy nine months after the
fire, q part of which was rented to the gov
eminent for use as post-office for several
years.
Mrs Fred Grant is a sister of Mrs. Potter
Palmer, the wife of the owner of the famous
Palmer House, of Chicago and it was at her
residence, at private dinner party, that
Col Fred first met his wife 1t is said that
the meeting was so mutually satisfactory on
both sides that they became engaged without
asking President Grant or Mr.. Honore about
it, breaking. the news after Colonel Fred
had returned from trip to the frontier in his
military capacity. The wedding was very
coming from Washington to attend it, and
there being four bridesmaids and four grooms-
men, together with q host of friends, to ex-
tend good wishes. Colonel Fred and his
family did not keep mp an expensive style of
living from the beginning contenting them