Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-12
COUNTRY MOURNs
FOR CEN. GRANT
Son of Civil War Hero Dies
Suddenly in New York
Hotel.
,contlnued from First rsse.o

the meantime and that his services
were not required, nor would the am
bulance in which he came be needed.
General Grants breakdown was
quite due as much to the fear thai he
had the same disease. cancer OF the
throat. that killed his father, as to the
malady itself. the exact. nature OF
which was not revealed.
1t was understood when he left Gov
ernor's Island that he might never re-
turn, and Brigadier-Genera Tasker 4.
Bliss was temporarily placed in COM
mand.
A bulletin issued at 1 o'clock this
morning by Drs. Able and Dentsch
said:
General Frederick D. Grant died
suddenly of heart failure without
p%remonition at the buckingham Hotel
at midnight of April Il. after retiring
at $50 D.. m, apparently in better con-
dition than for several weeks.
NE had returned from his recent
trim much improved and looking re-
markably well and vigorous. His
medical condition since had given no
anxiety to his physicians, who had
been with him during the day ard
CONGRATULATED him on his good health.
He expressed himself as feeling re-
ioiced at his renewed strength. Gen.
eraI Grant had been suffering from
diabetes and the attendant digestive
disturbances. which semed to be, how
ever. perfectly under control.
THE sudden fatal termination came
as n great surprise. His wife and
nurse were with him at the time. The
physicians who We're called at once
found that the heart had stopped in
stantly."
Frederick Dent Grant was born in st.
Louis. No. May 80, 1850, was the son
of Ulysses and Julia ID. Grant. He was
graduated from West Point in 1871 n
was assigned to the Fourth Cavalry.
When he resigned his commission in
1851 he was a Northumberland, aide
de-camp to Northumberland Sher1-
dan. He afterward became United
States minister to Austria and more
recently served as a police commits
sioner in New York. leaving that office
in January 1898.
He became colonel of the Fourteenth
New York Volunteer Infantry upon
the beginning of the Spanish-American
war and on May q, 1898. was appointed
brigadier-general of United States
volunteers. He served in Porto Rico
one year, and after the war COM
manded the military district of San
Juan, Cuba. He was transferred to
the Philippines in April, 1899, and COM
manded the second brigade, first div1-
sion, eighth army corps Nawton's).
He was transferred November !, 1899,
to the second brigade, second division.
Later he was detached to invade
provinces of Batuan and Zamballes. He
was assigned on January, 1900 to the
northern Luzon district which he com
manded during the guerilla war. He
was transferred to the second brigade,
Southern Luzon in October, 1901, where
he restored order. He was transferred
to Samar, in April. 1902. where he re-
ceived the surrender of the last of the
insurgent forces.
He was appointed brigadter- general.
U. s. A, February Is. 1901. He COM
manded the department of Texas in
1902 until January 10, 1904; the depart
ment of the Great Lakes until Septem-
Der %, 1904, and his last assignment
was the command of the department
Of the East. He was stationed at Gov
errors Island.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-Major-
General Leonard Wood. chief of staff
of the army, was reused from his
sIumbers at his home at Fort Myer
by a message from the Army n
Navy Club telling him Of the death
of General Grant.
General Grants death is a great
blow to the service he said, and I
am exceedingly sorry to hear of 1t.
Officially at the War Department Cen
eral Grant was not on sick leave.
However, nearly a month ago he adj
vised the War Department that he
would take his three months annual
leave, which was granted
Expressions of sympathy and sorrow
were freely given at the Army an
Navy Club. News Of General Grants
death was received from New York
from his son, Lieutenant Grant, who
telephoned Captain Warren Dean, Of
the Fifteenth Cavalry. that the gen.
eral had died.
It was said last night that the gen
eral would probably be buried in New
York, his fathers burial place.