The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-17
CAREER OF THE
LATE Cen. GRANT
Had First Military Experience
With Father at ViCkSburg.
WAS ONLY 10 At The Time.

Eldest Son OF President Ulysses s.
Grant and Was Noted For tho Rev
erence In Which He Held His Fa-
ther's Memory.
Major General Frederick Dent Grant,
who died recently, was the eldest son
of President Ulysses s. Grant. He was
born at st. Louis, May 80, 1850.
Frederick d. Grant was with his ia
ther in the latter part of the civil war,
serving as voluntary aid and dispatch
bearer to General Grant. He never
was formally mustered into the serv-
ice, although he held from his father
a commission as first lieutenant. This
boyhOod record was corrected" by
congress in 1910 so that he became
eligible to the Grand Army of the Re
public.
As soon as he was old enough he
was appointed to the Military academy
at West Point from New York and was
graduated and commissioned a second
lieutenant June II, 1871 being detailed
to the Fourth United States cavalry.
y
Indian fighting on the frontier. He be-
came first lieutenant on June %, 1876.
Meanwhile, in 1878, he had been APP
pointed aid-de-camp to Lieutenant
General Philip II. Sheridan with the
rank Of lieutenant colonel. In his
early western days he was employed
also as engineer in the construction of
n Il 4 mol
railways. On June 1, 1881, Lieutenant
Colonel Grant resigned from the serv-
ice after spending the greater part of
his time on the frontier.
After leaving the army Colonel
Grant spent much of his time at the
home of his mother in New York. He
was constantly at his fathers side dur
ing the illness which took General
Grants life and after his fathers death
took charge of the family affairs.
Minister to Austria.
In 1885 President Harrison appointed
him minister to Austria, and from 1894
to 1898 he was one of the police com
missioners of New York city.
When the Spanish war began General
Grant was appointed colonel of the
Fourteenth New York infantry. That
was on May 2, 1898. On May 81 he
became brigadier general of volunteers.
He served in the Porto Rican campaign
and after the war commanded the mill
tary district of Porto Rico. On April
10, 1899, he was honorably discharged
and on the same day was reappointed,
with the same rank, and served to the
following January as a brigade COM
mander in the Philippines. From Jan
uary, 1900, to October, 1901, he COM
manded the northern district of Luzon
and then until the following April was
in command of the southern district of
Luzon, when he was brought back to
take command of the department of
Texas.
In 1904 he was for several months in
command of the department of the
lakes, where he had been aid-de-camp
to General Sheridan years before, and
then was for four years commander of
the department of the east, returning
again to his latest post as successor
of General Leonard Wood.
General Grant was married while
serving in the department Of the lakes
on Oct. 20, 1874, to Ida NJ. Honore,
daughter of Henry Hamilton Honore
of Chicago. They have two children.
Was Republican.
A Republican in politics, General
Grants prohibition principles on one
occasion subjected him to considerable
criticism. In 1909 he headed a prohi
bitiOn parade in Chicago in his full
uniform. Secretary of War Dickinson
said that the general had participated
in the parade as an individual only
and the matter was dropped. At the
time there was some talk among Pro
hibitionists of trying to get General
Grant to run for president on that tick
ct this year.
General Grant was known for the
reverence in which he held the mem
DRY of his father
Several weeks ago General Grant
made tour OF inspection of the coast
artillery posts in his department.
This tour took in the posts from Port
land, Me-, to Galveston. His last com
mand included both the department
of the east and the department Of the
gulf as division commander. The COM
mand Is regarded as inferior in impor-
tance only to the chief of staff in
Washington and the division com
mander in the Philippines.
1t has been said that for some time
past General Grant felt that he suf-
fered from the same malady as his IA
ther, and his friends say that the wor-
ry over this possibility played CON
siderable part in breaking him down.
Hnauv Punishrnnnt Eor NNinn GrnMAr.