Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24
NELLIE GRANT
CHh il yVhE) Board of Lady
Managers,
ST. Louis Worlds Fair
st. Louis Worlds Fair

was because, still like her soldier ia
ther, Nellie was SO unassuming. Like
him, too, she never talked, true daugh-
ter to the father who was called the
silent man. But Nellie Grant owns
frankly that the happiest days Of her
early life were those spent iii the White
House at Washington when her father
was president, from 1869 to 1874 the
year she married the Englishman, Cap
tain John Algernon Sartoris, and went
off with him across the water to be at
once a none too happy wife and the
light of her old father-in-law's eyes, as
she had been the light of her own IA
TIERS eyes in Washington. In that
merry girlhood time Nellie Grant had a
pair of black ponies and a little yellow
basket phaeton. She herself. used to
drive the ponies and load the ,phaeton
to overlooking with her girl friends
Often the carriage load OF girls went
like the wind over the avenues and
roads in and about Washington, Nellie
holding the reins and urging the small
horses faster and faster Once going
thus the girls met the carriage of the
president, General Grant.
Hello, papa!" cried the girl and
whizzed past The silent mans face
lighted with the rare smile that came
into it when he saw his daughter, and
he said to one with him:
THAT was my Nellie.S She loves
horses as well as do"
Had Nellie Grant been a man army
generalships, ambassadorships to for
eign lands, official posts the highest and
most important, would have been hers
| without even the asking. But being
i ot,1 r;,1 a., 100 I,
cipient of affectionate good will from
| the American people and to her father
| the best beloved of his children; that
! was all. And when she took girls
| romantic fancy at the age of seventeen
! to a young Englishman, this child who
had always had her own way, there
was nothing to do but allow her to
marry him and let her go. Mrs. Julia
Dent Grant, her strong willed mother.
was disappointed that Nellie chose the
Englishman She had hoped, she said
that Nellie would marry some nice
young army or navy officer there at
home" Not only Nellie's friends, but
the acquaintance of the young man.
wondered what Nellie could see in
| him." AS proffered husband he was
the leavings of one American girl al
ready, it was said, having been refused
1 by a merry miss of Oshkosh.
Nellie married him and "dreed her
i weird" On his mothers side he be-
4 longed to the handsome, dramatically
4 gifted Kemble family, being grand
nephew Of the splendid Sara Siddons
and own nephew of Fanny Kemble
well known in this country for hel
magnificent talents as well as for hel
magnificent ebullitions of temper. A
person said Of Algy that he had some
Of the genius of his Grandaunt Siddons
and all the temper of his Aunt Fanny
Kemble. President Grant was fairly
broken hearted for awhile after the
wedding day, when Nellie went away
and left him.
u In England the elder Sartoris was 6
wealthy man, and he took good care o.
J his American daughter-in-law and hel
. children. Nellie Grant has, above most
the power Of attaching people to her
The affection of her father-in-la law wal
, manifest when at his death it wal
, found he had settled 10000 good dol
, lars year on her and her children.
!, In 1888 her husband slept with hi