Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-12

tiers at Fort Totten. moved over IL
! Governors island and assumed tenn
porary command OF the division.
Was Son of President Grant
Major General Frederick Dent Grant,
the Oldest son of President Ulysses s.
| Grant. was born at st. Louis, May 80,
1880 The family cam from New Eng
land. where Matthew Grant settled at
Windsor. Conn, in 1875. President Grants
grandfather moved to western Peunsyl-
vanta soon after the Revolutionary war.
President Grant had four children-Frcd-
eric D.. Ulysses 8, Jr., a lawyer, OF San
Diego, Cal, and Jesse r. OF New YORK.
and Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris. Their
mother was Julia Dent OF st. Louls.
Frederick D. Grant was with hts father
m the latter part Of the civil war. serving
as voluntary aid and dispatch bearer to
General Grant. He never was formally
mustered into the service. although ne
held from his father a commission az
first lieutenant. This boyhood record was
corrected" by congress- in 1910. so tina
he became eligible to the Grand Army OF
the Republic
He was graduated from West Point
commissioned a second lieutenant on
June IL. 1871. being detailed to the Fourth
United States cavalry. With this com
mand he spent two years in Indiana light
ing on the frontier. He became first lieu
tenant on Jun %, 1876, and
In 1873. he had been appointed 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
the Union Pacific and Colorado Central
railways. On June /, 1881, Lieutenant
Colonel Grant resigned from the service
after spending the greater part or hls
time on the frontier.
He was constantly at his fathers side
during the illness which took General
Grants life and after his fathers death
took charge OF the family affairs. He
was not a member of the firm of Grant g.
Ward, but was said to have lost consid-
cradle money through that concern.
In 1885 President Harrison appointed
him minister to Austria. and from 1894 to
1898 he was one OF the police commission
ers Of New York.
Officer In Spanish War.
When the Spanish war began General
Grant was appointed colonel OF the Four
teenth New York infantry. that was on
May 2, 1893. On May q he became brig
adler general of volunteers. He served In
the Porto Rico campaign and after the
war commanded the military district of
Porto Rico. On April Is, 1899. he was hon
w "iN ga -" roatC NAoJ
was r~eappointed, with the same rank, and
served from April to the following jan
nary as a brigadier commander in the
Philippines. From January. 1900, to Octo-
Der, 1901, he commanded the northern dis
trict of Luzon. and then until the follow
ing April was In command of the south
ern district of LuZon. when he was
brought back to command the department
Of the east. In 1904 he was for several
months in command of the department Of
the lakes. and then was for -four years
commander OF the department OF the east,
returning again to the post as successor
to General Leonard Wood.
General Grant was married While serv-
ing in the department of the lakes on
Oct. 20, 1874, to Ida NJ. Honore, daugh-
ter Of Henry Hamilton Honore of Chi
cago. They have two children, Lieuten-
ant Ulysses 8. Grant 3D.. now stationed
in Washington, and the Princess Michael
Cantacuzene-Speranskey. who was Miss
Julia Dent Grant. She was married In
September, 1899. at Newport. Mrs. Fred
eriCk Dent Grant is a sister of Mrs. Pot
ter of Chicago.
A Republican In politics, General Grants
prohibition principles on one occasion
subjected him to considerable criticism.
In 1909 he headed a prohibition 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-
h~ibitionists of trying to get General Grant
to run for president on that ticket this
year.